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olivaceous green, abdomen and under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow. Under wing-coverts yellowish-white. Wings 54- 

 57 mm. " Iris reddish-brown. Bill black, slate-blue at 

 the base; feet slaty-blue." 



Hab. Admiralty Islands. 



Type in the Tring Museum : $ ad. No. 6132. Manus, 

 23. ix. 13. A. S. Meek coll. 



Obs. This form differs from Z.fuscicapilla, from Arfak, 

 chiefly in having a bright yellow abdomen and brighter 

 yellow rump and upper tail-feathers, and from Z. hypoxantha 

 (New Britain and New Ireland) chiefly in the colour of the 

 throat, which is goldeu-yellow in the latter. No doubt 

 Z. fuscicapilla, hypoxantha, and admiralitatis will eventually 

 be treated as subspecies, but it requires a very careful study 

 of the genus Zosterops to group all the many forms 

 correctly. 



Rhipidura setosa niveiventris, subsp. n. 



Differs from Rh. setosa setosa (New Ireland and New 

 Britain) and its various subspecies in its snow-white abdo- 

 men. The slaty-grey breast-band has no whitish spots, 

 or rarely shows some traces of them. The entire crown 

 of the head is black, merging into the slate-grey of the 

 back. Only the greater upper wing-coverts have a very 

 narrow outer edge of white, absent in worn specimens. 

 Wings 81-91*5 mm., the smaller specimens evidently being 

 females, though the sex-marks on the labels do not all bear 

 this out. 



Hab. Admiralty Islands. 



Type in the Tring Museum : .$ ad. No. 6053. Manus, 

 13. ix. 13. A. S. Meek coll. 



Major Horsbrtjgh exhibited a very fine female example of 

 the Japanese Pheasant (Phasianus versicolor^) in complete 

 male plumage. It had been bred in captivity by Mr. C. E. M. 

 Russell at Dover, and in April, 1909, was beginning to 

 assume male plumage, which was complete when the bird 

 was killed in December of the same vear. The ovary was 



