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Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 6, çf, Noord River, 7 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 251, çf, Van Weel's kamp, June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 334, cT> Sabang, 12 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 348, cT juv., Sabang, 18 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 371, cTi Alkmaar, 25 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Meliphagidae. 



Gliciphila modesta G. R. Gray. 



Glyciphila modesta G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858, pp. 174, 190. 



Glycyphila modesta, Salvador!, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 307. — Gadow, Cat. B. Br. M. IX, 1884, p. 215. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 142, çf, Noord River, 25 May 1907. Iris red-brown, bill light brown, feet flesh-colour. 

 N°. 464, Ç, Noord River near the „Zwaluw", 10 July 1907. Iris brown, bill black, feet grey. 



(In the skin the bill is like in the other examples brownish). 

 N". 466, çf, Noord River near the „Zwaluw", 12 July 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet grey. 



Melilestes megarhynckus (G. R. Gray). 



Piilotis megarhynchus G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858, p. 174. 



Melilestes megarhynchus, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 313. 



Ptilotis megalorhynchus, Gadow, Cat. B. Br. M. IX, 1884, p. 248, pi. V. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 349, Q?, Sabang, 18 July 1907. Iris brown-orange, bill black, feet blue-grey. 



This species inhabits New Guinea, the Aru Islands, Misool, Salawati and Jobi. The 

 spécimens from Waigéu must be separated subspecifically under the name of Melilestes 

 megarhynchus vagans (Bernstein) ; they are less olive at the underparts and their chin and 

 throat are pure grey without olive tinge. 



Ptilotis erythropleura lorentzi nov. subsp. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 435, (not sexed), Hellwig Mountains, 4 September, 1907. Iris emerald green, bill black, feet 



slate-blue. 

 N°. 436, çf, Hellwig Mountains, 4 September 1907. Iris emerald green, bill black, feet slate-blue. 

 N°. 440. çf, Hellwig Mountains, 6 September 1907. Iris emerald green, bill black, feet slate-blue. 

 N°. 441, Q, Hellwig Mountains, 6 September 1907. Iris emerald green, bill black, feet slate-blue. 



Similar to Ptilotis erythropleura Salvadori (Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, VII, 1875, p. 949), 

 but darker and larger. Head, hindneck and back black with greyish white margins to the 

 feathers; rump and upper tailcoverts black with olive margins; tail brownish black, feathers 

 edged with olive and tipped with whitish ; wing brownish black, third to seventh primary 

 edged with fulvous at the outer webs, inner secondaries edged with olive at the outer webs ; 

 greater upper wingcoverts black with whitish, smaller upper wingcoverts with fulvous edgings ; 



