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r.aiTovvly barred witli dark grey; abdomen mostly oclira- 

 ceous buff; more or less widely unbarred along the middle ; 

 under tail-coverts similar, but generally deeper in colour. 

 Wings (seven specimens) 95-103 mm. $ . Upperside 

 brown. Throat with indications of bars ; breast and sides 

 of abdomen with black bars. "Wings (four) 95—100 mm. 



Hnb. New Ireland, New Britain, Duke of York and Rook 

 Islands. 



2. Lalage karu obscurior, subsp. nov. 



Bill larger than in L. k. karu. ^ with the throat more 

 or less distinctly barred, breast slightly more greyish, the 

 ochraceous-buff colour of abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 darker. Wings (two) 95 and 96 mm. ?. Upperside darker 

 brown, bars on underside somewhat wider; abdomen darker 

 ochraceous than in L. k. karu. Wing 95 mm. 



H(.b. Fei'gusson and Goodenough Islands. 



Type (Tring Museum) : ? . Fergusson Island, 20- ix. 1894. 

 A. S. Meek coll. 



3. Lalage karu polygrammica (Gray). 



Campephaga polyrjrammica Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1858, p. 179 (Ara). 



Bill even smaller than in L. k. karu. ^ . Throat barred 

 or unbarred. Breast still more greyish than in L. k. ob- 

 scurior; abdomen barred right across, the ochraceous of the 

 same dark tint as in L. k. obscurior. Wings (nine) 91- 

 98 mm. ? . U})perside darker than in L. k. karu, but 

 apparently not so brown as in L. k. obscurior (of which, 

 however, only one ? could be compared). Wings (eight) 

 88-96 mm. 



Hub. Aru Islands and British New Guinea to the Kumusi 

 lliver and Milne Bay. 



4, Lalage karu microrhyncha Ogilvie-Grant. 



Lalage karu vi'icrorliynclia Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, Suppl. 

 1915, p. 118 (Mimika River). 



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