17 [Vol. xxxvii. 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant separated specimens collected by the 

 B. O. U. Expedition on the Mimika River on account of 

 their bills being still smaller than in L. k. polygrammica. 



5. Lalage karu keyensis, subsp. nov. 



Bill slightly larger than in L. k. 'polygrammica. $ ad. 

 Barring on breast somewhat duller, as a rule not so well 

 defined ; abdomen and under tail-coverts not so deep ochra- 

 ceous as in L. k. polygrammica. Wings (three) 95-99 mm. 

 ? . Abdomen decidedly paler than in L. k. polygrammica ; 

 upperside not so dark, more slaty. Wings (three) 89- 

 94) mm. 



Hab. Add, Great and Little Key, Key Islands. 



Type (Tring Museum; : ? . Tual, Little Key, 14. ix. 1897. 

 Heinrich Kiihn coll. 



6. Lalage karu pallescens, subsp. nov. 



Bill about as large as in L. k. ohscurior. ^ . Throat un- 

 barred, abdomen widely unbarred along the middle, the 

 ochraceous buff very pale ; under tail-coverts very pale. 

 W^ings (twelve) 98-106 mm. $ . Like the male easily dis- 

 tinguishable by the very pale abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts. Wings (thirteen) 97-102 mm. 



Hab. St. Aignan and Sudest Islands in the Louisiade 

 group. (None received fiom Rossel Island.) 



Type (Tring Museum) : S ad. Sudest, 26. ii. 1916. No. 

 7269. Meek collection. Collected by Eichhorn Bros. 



Lord Rothschild made the following remarks on Tyto 

 arfaki, Schleg. : — 



A great deal of Part 4 of vol. v. of Mr. Mathews's ' Birds 

 of Australia ' contains criticisms and repudiations of the 

 criticisms of Mr. Hartert and myself of the supposed sub- 

 species of Owls described by Mr. Mathews. While in many 

 other cases Mr. Mathews recently relegates most, or all, of 

 his formerly created new^ names to the rank of synonyms^ 

 he believes that all his subspecies of Tijto novce-hollandice are 



