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inner margins; inner secondaries almost entirely olive- 

 green and margined round the tip with whitish-yellow. 

 Tail-feathers greyish-olive, with yellowish-olive outer mar- 

 gins and narrow pale yellow inner edges. Iris brownish- 

 grey ; bill black, base of lower mandible and nasal groove 

 wax-yellow. 



Adult female. Like the male, but considerably smaller 

 and without the brush-like feathers under the eye, this 

 region being bare of feathers as in the female of Siigmatops 

 argentauris. 



Wing : S 79-82 mm., ? 68-70. 



Hub. Central JNIountains of Middle Ceram, above 3000 

 feet. 



Type : (^ , No. 696. Guniing Sofia, Middle Ceram, 

 4000 feet, 27.vi.ll. E. Stre.semann coll. 



Obs. The nearest ally is probably S. albiaurlcularis 

 llamsay. 



Stigmatops deningeri, sp. n. 



Adult male. Chin, throat, and sides of the neck silvery- 

 grey, jugulum and breast grey with yellowish edges. Middle 

 of the belly and under tail-coverts yellowish, flanks greyish- 

 yellow. Pileum and back dark olive, with dark grey middles 

 to the feathers. Uj)per tail-coverts yellowish-green. Tail- 

 feathers above yellowish-green, quills and upper wing-coverts 

 blackish-grey with the outer edges yellowish-green. Lores, 

 a line from the eye to the nape, and the ear-coverts silvery- 

 grey. Feathers of the eyelid and patches of short brush-like 

 feathers below the eye whitish- grey. Iris greyish-brown; 

 bill black, basal half yellow; feet plumbeous. 



Adult female. Somewhat lighter. Eyelid feathered as in 

 the male, but with the patches of short feathers under the 

 eye less numerous and pale yellow. 



Wing : ^ 71-79 mm., ? 66-69. 



Hab. High mountains of Burn above 4000 feet. 



Type: ^, No. 1104. Giiuung Fogha, N.W. Buru, 

 4500 feet, 25. ii. 12. E. Stresemanu coll. 



