98 E. D. VAN OORT. BIRDS. 



Philemon novae-guineae (S. Mùller). 



Tropidorhynchus novae-guineae S. Millier, Verh. Land- en Volkenk. 1839-44, p. 153. — Salvadori, 



Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 357. 

 Philemon novae guineae, Gadow, Cat. B. Br. M. IX, 1884, p. 274. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 16, Q, Noord River, 9 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 95, (f, Noord River, 20 May 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 99, çf, Noord River, 21 May 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 108, (not sexed), Noord River, 22 May 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 127, cf, Noord River, 24 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 143, (not sexed), Noord River, 25 May 1907. Iris pale brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 160, çf, Noord River, 26 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N c . 247, Q, Noord River, June 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 481, cf, Noord River, 10 September 1607. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Pycnopygius stictocephalus (Salvadori). 



Pycnonotusi stictocephalus Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, IX, 1876, p. 34. 

 Pycnopygius stictocephalus, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 340. — Gadow, Cat. B. Br. M. IX, 

 1884, p. 290. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 138, Q, Noord River, 24 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 152, rf, Noord River, 26 May 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



In the Leyden Muséum there is only one example of this species, collected by 

 Dr. BERNSTEIN on Salawati. The two spécimens collected by Mr. LORENTZ are upon the whole 

 a little darker. The throat in the maie is blackish grey. 



Dicaeidae. 



Dicaeiim geelvinkianum diversuni Rothschild & Hartert. 



Dicaeum geelvinkianum diversuni Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. X, 1903, p. 215. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 141, rf, Noord River, 25 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 331, (Q), Sabang, 12 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet greyish brown. (Ex spirits). 

 N°. 414, çf, Alkmaar, 25 August 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet pale brown. 

 N°. 428, Ç, Resi kamp, 6 September 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 462, (not sexed), Noord River near the „Zwaluw", 8 July 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 465, Ç, Noord River near the „Zwaluw", 12 July 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 471, Q juv., Noord River near the „Zwaluw", 17 July 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 

 (N°. 462 is surely a maie, n°. 465 is labelled Q, but most likely a young maie). 



Thèse examples agrée with the type-specimens of diversuni Rothschild & Hartert. The 

 crown and the upper tailcoverts are lighter red than in a spécimen of rubrocoronatum Sharpe 

 from Fergusson Island in the collection of the Leyden Muséum; the uppersurface is steel- 

 blue, not purplish blue, mixed with olive. 



