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Mr. Ernst Hartert described the following new birds 

 and exhibited their type specimens^ together with examples 

 of allied species for comparison : — 



PODARGUS MEEKI, Sp. n. 



Intermediate in size between P. intermedius, Hartert, and 

 P. ocellatus, Q. & G., and differing from both in the female 

 not being rufous, -but apparently always brownish, and much 

 more heavily marked with black on the under surface than 

 the male and darker above. Wing 190-195 mm., tail 

 167-180. 



Discovered by Albert S. Meek on Sudest Island. 



^GOTHELES PULCHER, Sp. U. 



Similar to ^. insignis, Salvad., from Arfak, but differing 

 in its larger size, and by the absence of round buff spots on 

 the back and the middle of the breast. The upper wing- 

 coverts have no blackish bars ; the inner webs of the remiges 

 are deep blackish brown, the outer webs chestnut-rufous 

 with some faint blackish spots on the first three primaries, 

 but without light markings. The central rectrices are 

 chestnut-rufous with some narrow blackish cross-bars, but 

 without any light markings. Under tail-coverts pale rufous 

 at base, buffy white at the tip, with a narrow rufous border. 

 Wing 172 ram., tail approximately 150 (very much abraded), 

 tarsus 21. 



One specimen from the mountains of British New 

 Guinea. 



Pachycephala rosselia.va, sp. n. 



Somesvliat intermediate between P. melanura with a black 

 tail and P. coUaris with an olive tail, but having the tail 

 blackish, olive at base, the tips and edges seen on the outer 

 webs of the rectrices broader on the central pair. The yellow- 

 collar on the hind-neck is narrower than in P. collaris, and 

 slightly interrupted in the middle by an olive-green patch. 

 The feathers of the thiglis are black at the base, yellow at 

 the tip, and with a white spot on otie web before the yellow 

 tip. Female above dark olive-brown, moi'e greenish on the 



