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Mr. Ogilvie-Grant sent for comparison a specimen of N. m. 

 pullicauda Hartert wliicli inhabits the highlands of British 

 New Guinea at a corresponding elevation of about 8000 feet. 

 The typical form of N. muschenbrocki is found from the 

 Mimika River eastwards to British New Guinea, but is 

 confined to lower elevations not exceeding about 5500 feet. 



Psittacella modesta coUaris, subsp. n. 



Adult male. Differs from the male of P. modesta (Schleg.), 

 in having a pale yellow nuchal collar dividing the brown 

 feathers of the head, which have dull orange middles, from 

 the green back. In P. modesta the head and hind neck are 

 brown washed with yellowish-olive on the occiput and nape. 

 Uj)per mandible plumbeous, edge whitish, lower mandible 

 brown, tip whitish ; feet plumbeous black. Wing 94 mm. 



Adult female. Very similar to the female of P. modesta, 

 but with the head and nape coloured almost as in the male, 

 though the yellow collar is less defined. Bill horny-brown, 

 tip yellow ; feet black. Wing 95 mm. 



Hab. Utakwa River. 



Type S- Camp 6°, 5500 ft., 19. ii. 13. C. B. Kloss. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant also described two new sub- 

 species of Kingfishers from the Solomon Islands, which he 

 proposed to name 



Alcyone richardsi aolse, subsp. n. 



Adult. Differs from A. richardsi Tristram, from Rendova 

 Island, Solomons, in its larger size ; the blue on the sides 

 of the breast is not extended to form a pectoral band, and 

 the under tail-coverts are white tipped with blue, instead 

 of being blue with a little white at the base. Wing (in 

 moult) 59 mm. as compared with 52 mm. in A. richardsi. 



Hab. Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands. 



Type in the British Museum : Adult. Aola, 6. xii. 88. 

 C. M. Woodford coll. 



Alcyone richardsi bongainvillei, subsp. n. 

 Adult male. Diflers from A. richardsi Tristram, in having 

 the pectoral band more or less interrupted in the middle 



