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GENJiillA AND SPECIES OF BIRDS. 



Eamily XXVI. PROMEROPID^. 



Meliphagidce, pt., Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 282 (1884). 

 Shelley, B. Africa, ii. p. 161 (1900). 



I. PKOMEROPS, Briss. 



(Gadow, t. c. p. 282.) 



1. cafer (Lim.). (p. 283.) 

 (Shelley, t. c. p. 161.) 



Cape Colony 

 (Cape. Town to 

 Grahamstown). 



2. gurneyi, J. Verr. (p. 284.) 

 (Shelley, t. c. p. 165.) 



Natal and 

 E. TransTaal. 



Family XXVII. MELIPHAGIDJE *. 



[(7/. Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 127 (1884); Salvad. 

 Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 290 (1881) ; id. Ibis, 1884, pp. 326- 

 329 ; Eothsch. & Hartert, Nov. Zool. x. pp. 435-445 (1903).] 



I. MELITHREPTES, Vieill. 



{Of. Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 362, 1881; 

 Gadow, t. e. p. 204.) 



atricapillus (Lath.). 



lunulatm (Shaw), (p. 204.) 

 [Cf. Sharpe, Hist. Coll. ii. p. 51 (1905).] 



S. Queensland. 



S. & S.E. Australia 

 (Victoria & S. Australia 

 to N. S. Wales and 

 Wide Bay district). 



2. albigularis, Gould, (p. 205.) 

 {Cf. Salvad. I. c. p. 362.) 



N.E. Australia 

 (Cape York. 

 S. to Herbert Eiver, in 

 N.E. Queensland). 



H.W. Australia 

 (Derby). 



S.E. New Guinea. 



* For information as to the species of Idelipkagida and their distribution in 

 Australia, I am much indebted to Mr. A. J. North, of the Australian Museum, Sydney. 



