174 NOVITATES ZOOLOOIOAE XXVI. 1919. 



306. Myzomela obscura meeki Eothsch. & Hart. = Myzomela oiscura meeki. 

 Myzomela obscura meeki RothschQd & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1907. p, 479 (Upper Aroa River). 



Type: ? ad., Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea, 6.ii. 1905. A. S. 

 Meek leg. No. B. 208. 



(Mr. Ogilvie-Grant, Ris, Suppl. II. 1915, pp. 51, 52, united the forms from 

 the Aru Islands and from British New Guinea with M. obscura obscura, but he 

 forgot to mention our meeki. The Aru specimens are darker, the ones from 

 the Aroa River smaller than M. obscura obscura. The birds from Outanata are 

 probably like the Aru ones, but we have seen no specimens from there, nor 

 did we receive any from the Mimika River.) 



307. Myzomela albigula Hart. = Myzomela albigula albigula. 



Myzomela albigvla Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, viii, p. xx. (1898 — ^Rossel Island). 



Type : c? ad., Rossel I., Louisiade group, 27. i. 1898. A. S. Meek CoU. No. 

 1306. 



308. Myzomela pallidior Hart. = Myzomela albigula pallidior. 

 Myzamda pallidior Hartert, Bull. B.O, Club, viii. p. xxi. (1898 — St. Aignan Island). 



Type : <? ad., St. Aignan, Louisiade group, 31. vii. 1897. A. S. Meek coll. 

 No. 725. 



In NoviTATES ZooLOGHCAB 1907, p. 480, I suggested that even albigula and 

 pallidior might be subspecies of M. obscura, but the striped character of their 

 undersides seems to me now so peculiar that it appears to be more natural 

 to accept another species on the Louisiade Islands, which will then stand as 

 Myzomela albigula albigula and M. albigula pallidior. Cf. also Novitates 

 ZooLOGiCAE, 1899, pp. 79, 210. 



309. Myzomela nigrita louisiadensis Hart. = Myzomela nigrita louisiadensis. 

 Myzomela nigrita louiaiadensia Hartert, Nov, Zool, v. p, 527 (1898 — Sudest Island), 



Tjrpe : t? ad., Sudest Island, Louisiade group, 8. iv. 1898. A. S. Meek Coll. 

 No. 1690. 



310. Myzomela batjanensis Hart. = Myzomela sanguinolenta batjanensis. 

 Myzomela batjanensis Hartert, Nov. Zool, 1903. p. 56 (Batjan). 



Type : <? ad., Batjan, vi. 1902. John Waterstadt leg. No. B. 579. 



311. Myzomela kuehni Rothsch. = Myzomela kuehni. 

 Myzomela kuehni Rothschild, Bull. B.O, Club, xiii, p. 42 (1903 — ^Wetter). 



Type: <? ad., Wetter Island, 5.x. 1902. Heinrich Kiihn leg. No. 5693. 



312. Anthreptes meeki Hart. = Oedistoma pygmaeum meeki, 



Anthreptes meehi Hartert, Nov, Zool, 1896. p. 239 (Fergusson Island). 



Type: ^ ad., Fergusson Island, D'Entrecasteaux group, 6.x. 1894. A. S. 

 Meek leg. ^ 



