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Cloven. — Head, earcoverts and hindneck blackish, forehead 

 with brown spots. Chin and throat dull brownish white, 

 breast brownish olive with lighter shaftstripes ; vent and 

 under tailcoverts sandy brown with rosy tinge. Back, wing- 

 coverts and tail dull green, quills blackish. Eye black, 

 bill darkbrown with light tip, feet greyish brown. 



I think it better to use for this species the name 

 novae- guineae instead of atricapilla, as the latter name 

 can give much confusion. 



Fitta macklotii Temminck. 



Pitta mackloti^ Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 395. — 

 Sclater, Cat. B. Br. M. XIV, 1888, p. 436. 



One adult specimen. Owen Stanley Mountains. Coll. 

 Henkelman. — This specimen is indistinguishable from exam- 

 ples from western New Guinea. 



Menueidae. 

 Orthonyx temminckii victoriana, nov. subsp. 



A male and a female. Mt. Victoria, 12000 ft. Coll. 

 Henkelman. 



(f. Similar to Orthonyx temminckii Vigors & Hersfield, 

 but much more strongly mottled with black on the head 

 and on the mantle ; rump and upper tailcoverts olive- 

 brownish, not ferrugineous as in temminckii^ the feathers 

 being margined with black; tailfeathers black with brownish 

 margins; forehead black with grey centres to the feathers; 

 earcoverts dark grey; chin black; throat and foreneck 

 white, the feathers minutely margined with black; sides 

 of breast dark grey, the feathers with black bases; on each 

 side of the white foreneck a black patch ; centre of breast 

 white, the feathers with black bases and narrow black 

 margins; abdomen ashy grey, under tailcoverts brown; 

 flanks olive brown; wingcoverts black, the lesser ones with 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



