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published catalogue of his collection. The fact is that Tristram marked all 

 specimens as types, they are therefore all cotypes. There is no doubt that 

 splendida is a synonym of cardinalis, which was also described from Tanna. 

 Tristram's note is not quite correct ; he only named the birds " at Mr. Layard's 

 request, though with some hesitation," because he says Latham's measurements 

 did not agree ! He adds that Latham gave the length as 4 inches, instead of 

 5'6 to 6. Latham, however, in the original description said only " Length of 

 our Creeper," and the length of the type is 4" 5 and not 5" 5 to 6 inches. 



300. Myzomela eichhomi R. & H. = Myzomela eichhorni eichhorni. , 

 Myzomela eichhomi Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1901. p. 181 (Kulamhangra, Solomon Islands). 



Type: <? ad., Kulambangra, 26. ii. 1901. A. S. Meek and Eichhorn leg. 

 No. 2799. 



301. Myzomela eichhomi interposita R. & H. = Myzomela eichhorni 



interposita. 



Myzomda eichhorni interposita Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. B.O. Clvh, xxxvii. p. 38 (1917 — ^Nevr, 

 Georgia, Solomon Is.). 



Type: <J ad., New Georgia, 15. iii. 1904. A. S. Meek and Eichhorn leg. 

 No. A. 1465. 



302. Myzomela eichhoini atrata Hart. = Myzomela eichhorni atrata. 



Myzomda eichhomi atrata Hartert, BvM. B.O. Club, xxi. p. 105 (1908 — ^VeUa LaveUa Island 

 Solomon Is.). 



Type : S ad., Vella Lavella I., 28. ii. 1908. A. S. Meek and Eichhorn leg. 

 No. 3884. 



303. Myzomela eques nymani Rothsch. & Hart. = Myzomela eques nymani. 



Myzomela eques nymani Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 223 (Simbang, Kaiser WUhelm's 

 Land). 



Type : $ ad., Simbang, 26. viii. 1899. Dr. E. Nyman leg. 



304. Myzomela simplex mortyana Hart. = Myzomela obscura mortyana. 

 Myzomela simplex m,ortyana Hartert, Nov, Zool. 1903. p. 56 (Morty Island). 

 Type : Morty Island. Dumas leg. No. M. 59. 



t 305. Myzomela obscura grisescens Hart. = Myzomela obscura obscura. 



Myzomela obscura grisescens Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1905. p. 235 (Brocks Creek, Northern Territory 

 of South Australia), 



Type : S ad.. Brocks Creek, 9. viii. 1902. J. Tunney leg. No. R. 635. 



I was quite right in separating this form from the one inhabiting North 

 Queensland. As, however, the type of M. obscura Gould {Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London 1842, p. 137, pubUshed 1843) came from Port Essington, my grisescens 

 became a synonym of obscura, while the form usually called obscura required a 

 new name, and Mathews named it M. obscura harterti, terra typica Cape York, 

 distribution Northern Queensland. 



