

met with in New-Guinea specimens, their chins and throats being perfectly white, and the breast 

 sulphur-yellow, which character is also as intensely marked in the males in moult. 



When I wrote my article upon V. aspasioe I had only three specimens before me from the 

 Duke-of-York Island. I now have ten — two males in full plumage, one nearly so with a few 

 feathers of the moult on the chest, one in about half moult, four in nearly full moult, and two 

 females ; yet I cannot recognize this form as specifically distinct from G, aspasioe ; but it may be 

 considered a local race in which the females and males in moult present the most marked 

 characters. 



