24 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS FROM NEW GUINEA. 



Ptilotis SIMILIS. 



Ptilotis similis, Homb. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, t. 17. f. 2, 3. 

 Hab. New Guinea (west coast) {Homb. fy Jacq.). 

 a, b. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



Ptilotis megarhynchus. 



Ptilotis megarhynchus, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 174. 



c? . Brown ; top of head olive, with dashes of black in the middle 

 of each feather ; eyes surrounded with yellow ; throat yellowish 

 white, with minute dashes of fuscous ; breast and upper part of ab- 

 domen fuscous, margined with yellowish olive ; sides, abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts rufous brown ; under wing-coverts rufous white. 



Length 8" ; wings 3" 6'" ; bill 1" 1"'. 



Hab. Aru Islands (Wallace). 



Ptilotis fumata. 



Ptilotis fumata, Mull. (Mus. Lugd.). 



Hab. New Guinea ; River Oetanata (Muller). 



Ptilotis striolata. • 



Ptilotis striolata, Mull. (Mus. Lugd.). 

 Hab. New Guinea ; River Oetanata (Muller). 



Ptilotis auriculata. 



Ptilotis auriculata, Mull. (Mus. Lugd.). 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo (Muller). 



Tropidorhynchus mitratus. 



Tropidorhynchus corniculatus, Mull. Verh. Ethn. p. 2 1 . 

 Tropidorhynchus mitratus, Miill.; Sclater,Proc. L.S.vol.ii. p. 158. 

 Tropidorhynchus buceroides, Gould, B. of Austr. ii. pi. 17? 

 Hab. New Guinea (west coast) ; River Oetanata (Muller). 



Tropidorhynchus novje guinea. 



Tropidorhynchus nova guinea, Miill. & Schl. Verh. Ethn. p. 153. 



Hab. New Guinea (west coast) (Muller). 



a, b. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



Tropidorhynchus plumigenis. 



Tropidorhynchus plumigenis, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 174. 



2 . Differs from the former by wanting the knob on the basal 

 part of culmen, and by the sides of the head beneath the eyes being 

 plumed ; the ends of the tail-feathers are margined with brownish 

 white. 



cJ juv. Blackish brown ; feathers round the base of neck mar- 

 gined with yellow or white. Probably a younger bird than the 

 female. 



Hab. Ke Island (Wallace). 



