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The names of new forms described by Blasius in the Braunschweigische 

 Anzeigen, 1888, have priority over the names given by Sharpe in the Ibis, 1888. 

 Blasius exhibited the Palawan collection, which was the property of Mr. Nehrkom, 

 at a meeting of the Braunschweig Natural History Society, and reports of the 

 meeting were published, with fuU descriptions of the new birds, in the Anzeigen 

 of February 12th and March 1st. These descriptions have been repubUshed in 

 the Ornis, 1888, where a full report of the collections is given. Though the 

 descriptions in the Ornis appeared later, those in the Braunschweigische Anzeigen 

 were earlier than Sharpe's, which appeared in the April Ibis. Objectionable as 

 it is for any scientific person to aUow diagnoses of new forms to be published for 

 the first time in a newspaper, whether daily or weekly, or any other periodical 

 not devoted to science entirely or primarily, such names must be accepted, as 

 a line cannot be drawn between the various kinds of pubhcations. This is 

 universally admitted, and such names have been adopted. An exception 

 therefore cannot be made in the case of Blasius's names, though Sharpe (cf. 

 for example Hand-list B. v. p. 30) preferred his own. 



■f" 378 a. Frionocbilus johannae Sharpe = Prionochilus xanthopygius plateni. 



PrionocMlus johannae Sharpe, Ibis, April 1888. p. 201. pi. iv. fig. 1 (Palawan). 



Type: c? ad., Taguso, Palawan, 25. vi. 1887. John Whitehead leg. No. 

 1,427. 



379. Fristorhamphus versteri meeki R. & H. = Pristorhamphus versteri meeki. 

 Pristorhamphus versteri meeki Bothschild & Hartert, Bvil. B.O. Club, xxix. p. 36 (1911 — ^Mt. Goliath). 



Type : (3* ad.. Mount Gohath, Eastern Central Dutch New Guinea, 8.ii. 1911. 

 A. S. Meek CoU. No. 5,332. 



C. Boden KJoss collected specimens on the Utakwa River, from 2,900 to 

 8,000 feet, in the Snow Mountains, of which Mt. Gohath is part of the eastern 

 range. 



380. Fristoihamphns versteri albescens R. & H. = Pristorhamphus versteri 



albescens. 



Pristorhamphus versteri albescens Bothschild & Hartert, BuU, B.O. Club, xxix. p. 36 (1911 — ^Mountains 

 of British New Guinea). 



Type : ^ ad., Kotoi district, Owen Stanley Mountains, 4,000 feet, 12.viii, 

 1898. A. S. Anthony leg. " 



381. Eafa maculata R. & H. = Bhamphocharis maculata. 



Eafa maculata Bothschild & Hartert, Nov, Zool. x. p. 448 (1903 — Owen Stanley Eange, British New 

 Guinea). 



Type : (? ad.), Eafa district, Owen Stanley Mts., between 1,000 and 3,000 

 feet, 1902. A. S. Anthony leg. (Purchased from Mcllwraith & McEacham 

 in London.) 



(About the generic name, etc., see Novitates Zoologicae, 1907, p. 478.) 



