4S4 NOVITATES 2ooi,OGICAE XXVlt. 1920. 



530. Pitohui dohertsri R. & H. = Pitohui dohertyi. 

 Pitohui dohertyi Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. x. p. 95 (1903— Ron Island, in Geelvink Bay). 

 Type: c? ad., Ron Island, vi. 1897. William Doherty leg. No. 969. 



531. Pitohui dichrous monticola Rothsch. = Pitohui dichrous monticola. 

 Pitohui dichrous monticola Rothschild, Bull. B.O. Club, xiv. p. 79 (1904 — Upper Aroa River). 



Type: ^ ad., Upper Aroa River, British New Guinea, 27. i. 1903. A. S. 

 Meek Coll. No. A 124. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant {Ihis, Jubilee Suppl. II., 1915, pp. 99, 100) mentions 

 three specimens from the Utakwa River, 2,900 feet, which agree with specimens 

 from the Aroa River and other places in British New Guinea. From this he 

 concludes that monticola " must be added to the synonymy " of P. dichrous, 

 because these specimens " must be typical examples of P. dichrous, the type of 

 which was procured by S. Miiller at Lobo, Triton Bay." This conclusion is rash, 

 and I do not agree with it. We have in the Tring Museum 22 skins from Arfak, 

 Humboldt Bay, Simbang, and Sattelberg, which are perfectly alike, and which 

 we took to be typical dichrous, while 16 specimens from the mountains of British 

 New Guinea are at a glance distinguished by their paler colour. Therefore, 

 Lord Rothschild very logically separated the latter as P. dichrous monticola. 

 We had of course not seen specimens from the Snow Mountains, and it does not 

 follow that they " must he " typical examples of dichrous, as they came from the 

 mountains and Salomon Miiller's were collected near the coast, in the low country ; 

 moreover, in many cases, forms from the Utakwa River agree more with those 

 from South-Eastern Papua, while many Lobo-Bay ones are exactly like those 

 from Arfak. Until, therefore, the type from Lobo in the Leyden Museum is 

 carefully compared with specimens from Arfak and the mountains of British 

 New Guinea, we have not to alter the present state, and must admit monticola. 

 Should, against aU expectations, the Lobo type be like our monticola, then the 

 darker northern form from Arfak, Humboldt Bay, and Simbang must receive 

 a new name ! 



532. Abbotornis schistocercus Neum. = Ahhotornis schistocercus. 

 Abbotornis schistocercus Neumann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxiii. p. 11 (1908 — " West Central Madagascar "). 



Type : cj ad., " C. 0. Madagascar," which, I am now convinced, must mean 

 West Coast (not West Central) Madagascar. (Bought with others from a Paris 

 dealer in 1893.) 



533. Gymnorhina tibicen longiiostcis Hart. = Gymnorhina tibicen longirostris 



Milligan. 



OymnorMna tibicen longirostris Hartert, Nov. Zool. xii. p. 230 (1905 — Nullagine, N.W. Australia). 



Type : ^ ad., Nullagine, 16. iv. 1901. J. T. Tunney leg. No. R 92. 



This distinct form retains its fitting name longirostris, though it had been 

 described two years before by Milligan {Gymnorhina longirostris Milligan, Emu, 

 iii. p. 96, 1903). 



