GENERA AND SPECIES OIT BIEDS. 



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2. meeki, Hartert, Not. Zool. 1896, p. 239. 



D'Entrecasteaux Is. 

 (Fergusson and 

 Goodenough Is.). 



XIII. MELILESTES, Salvad* 



[Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 950 (1875); id. Orn. 

 Papuasia, ii. p. 3 12 (1881). Cf. Eothsch. & Hartert, Nov. 

 Zool. X. pp. 436-438 (1903). 

 Arachnothera, pt., Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. ix. p. 100 



(1884). 

 Ptilotis, pt., Gadow, t. c. p. 222.] 



1. laegnihynciiiis (Gray) ; Salvad., Om. Papu- New Guinea. 



asia, ii. p. 313 (1881). Salawati. Waigiu. 



[Ptilotis megahrhynohus (p. 248, pi. v.).] Mysol. Aru Is. 



2. novae guinese (Less.), (p. 110.) 

 (Salvad. t. c. p. 313.) 

 (Arachnothera novis ffuinee, p. 110.) 



New Guinea. 

 Salawati. Jobi. 

 Mysol. Waigiu. 

 Aru Is. 



3. poliopterus, 



(Arachnothera 



•a, p. Ill, pi. i. fig. 1.) 



S.E. New Guinea. 



4. iliolophus, Salvad. New Guinea. 



(Arachnothera iliolophis, p. Ill, ^l. i. Sg. 2.) Jobi. Miosnoum. 



5. fergussonis, Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, p. 237. D'Entrecasteaux la. 



(PergUBBon and 

 Goodenough Is.). 



6. affinis, Salvad. t. c. p. 316. N.W. New Guinea 



(Arachnothera iliolophus, pt., p. 111.) (Arfak Mts.). 



[= iliolophus, Eothsohi & Hartert, I. c. p. 438.] Waigiu. 



* Cf. Salvadori's Critique, Ibis, 1884, p. 328. 



