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



DlCAEIDAE. 



Dicaeum geelvinkianum diversum Rothsch. & Hartert. 



Rothschild & Hartert. Nov. Zool. X p. 215. 



Near Lake Sentani, April ist, n°. 61 (in spirits). 

 Near River Tami, May i3th, n°. 248 (in spirits). 



The red colour in the plumage is decidedly brighter than in D. g. rubrocoronatiun, but 

 as the birds where preserved in alcohol, it is possible that they were darker when fresh. 



Dicaeum pectorale S. Miill. 

 Orn. Pap. II p. 273. 

 Manokwari, May 2oth (in spirits). 



Ploceidae. 

 Munia spectabilis Sel. 



Donacicola spectabilis, Orn. Pap. II p. 441. 

 rf, Ç, Near Lake Sentani, May 261I1 and 27, n°. 387, 393. 

 This species was only known from New Britain and its occurrence on the mainland of 

 N. Guinea is certainly of interest. Both birds quite agrée with skins from the typical locality 

 in the Leyden Muséum but the crown is of a splendid glossy black, vvhile it is much duller 

 black in birds from New Britain. 



Munia tristissima Wall. 

 Orn. Pap. II p. 435. 

 sex?, Humboldt Bay, May i7th, n°. 261. 



