DR. L. F. DE BEAUFORT, BIRDS FROM DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 419 



Zosterops mysoriensis A. B. Meyer. 



Orn. Pap. II p. 365. 



Supiori, July i7th, n°. 626 (in spirits). 

 Discoloured as the preceding. 



NECTARINIIDAE. 



Cinnyris aspasia Less. 



Orn Pap. II p. 247. 



(2 cfcf, 9) Humboldt Bay, March, May, June, n°. 22, 218, 287. 

 (2 Ç9> cf) Near Lake Sentani, April, n°. 60, 85, 86. 



Cinnyris aspasia subspecies nova} 

 $ ad Liki, Arimoa (Kumamba) Isles, July i4th, n°. 612. 



Differs from C. aspasia in the colour of pileum, wingcoverts and uropygium, which is 

 not so green, but is more like that of C. a. mysoriensis. The mantle washed with metallic 

 blue, not simply velvety black. Throat and upperbreast not as purple as in C. a. mysoriensis. 

 Breast and middle of abdomen glossy metallic blue, without purple shade and thus contrasting 

 with the throat and upperbreast. Flanks, thighs and undertailcoverts also strongly washed 

 with metallic blue. Culmen 17 mm, tarsus 17 mm, wing 68 mm. 



This bird closely resembles C. a. mysoriensis, but misses the strong purple gloss of 

 the latter's throat; the most striking characteristic however is the metallic gloss on the under- 

 parts, which does not occur in any known form of C. aspasia. It is however possible that 

 very old maies hâve that gloss, although I did not see it in one of the maies in the séries 

 of C. aspasia in the Leyden Muséum. In that case the bird would be an old maie of C. a. 

 mysoriensis and its occurrence on the Kumamba Isles would be of some interest, thèse isles 

 being much nearer to the mainland of N. Guinea than to the Schouten Isles, where C. a. 

 mysoriensis is found. The form of C. aspasia in this part of the mainland of N. Guinea is 

 C. a. aspasia (Takar, Amberno, Novit. Zool. X p. 211) and doubtlessly the form mentioned 

 hère does not belong to the latter. 



Cinnyris frenatus S. Mùller. 



Orn. Pap. II p. 265. 



çf juv., Humboldt Bay, March 2ist, n°. 21. 



( 2 cfcTi 2 99)> Humboldt Bay, May, June, n°. 219, 220, 289, 290 (in spirits). 



( 2 cTcTi 2 99)' Near Lake Sentani, April, n°. 59, 76, 77, 84 (in spirits). 



(r?) Manokwari, May 4th (in spirits). 



C^f) Supiori, Juli i7th (in spirits). 



Very common in the papuan gardens in the neighbourhood of Humboldt Bay, where 

 they are found on the cocostrees, together with C. aspasia. 



