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grey, the larger ones with olive-brown extremities; quills 

 black without white spots and with brownish margins to the 

 outer webs. 



Wing 91, tail 83, culraen 12.5, tarso-met. 34 mm. 



9. Like the male, but feathers of the mantle with distinct 

 light shaftstripes ; chin, throat and foreneck pale ferrugi- 

 neous, not orange-rufous as in temminckii ; no black spots 

 on the sides of the foreneck. 



Wing 87, tail 73, culmen 12.5, tarso-met. 33 mm. 



This subspecies is nearly allied to Orthonyx temminckii 

 novae- guineae A. B. Meyer, from which it differs by the 

 less pure white of the undersurface, which has a more 

 mottled aspect; by the more brownish olive rump, which 

 is in novae-guineae more rufous like in temminckii, and by 

 the pale coloration of the throat and the foreneck in the 

 female, which is in the female of novae-guineae orange- 

 rufous. In the latter form the rufous on the foreneck is 

 also less extended. 



MUSCICAPIDAE. 



Poecilodryas papuana (A. B. Meyer). 



Poecilodryas papuana, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. IV, 1879, 

 p. 247. - Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 91. 



Microeca papuana, Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. X, 

 1903, p. 470. 



One adult specimen. Owen Stanley Mountains. Coll. 

 Henkelman. 



Machaerirhynchus nigripectus harterti, nov. subsp. 



Two adult males and one immature male. Owen Stanley 

 Mountains. Coll. Henkelman. 



This subspecies differs from Machaerirhynchus nigripectus 

 (Schlegel) by the brighter yellow of the undersurface, 

 which is more orange-yellow, especially on chin, throat, 

 sides of face and superciliary stripe. The immature male, 



Notes from the JLieyden Museums Vol. XXX. 



