on new-guinea birds. 239 



Meliphagidae. 



Ptilotis chrysotis (Lesson). 



Xanthotis chrysotis, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 346. 

 Ptilotis ehrysotis, Gadow, Cat. B. Br. M. IX, 1884, p. 238. 



One specimen. Kaukas. Coll. van Cloven. 



Philemon novae-guineae (S. Miiller). 



Tropidorhynchiis novae guineae, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 

 1881, p. 357. 



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

 p. 274. 



An adult specimen. Fak-Fak. Coll. Palmer van den Broek. 

 THree adult specimens. Kaukas. Coll. van Cloven. 



Melipotes fumigatus A. B. Meyer. 



Melipotes fumigatus A. B. Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. Ill, 



1886, p. 22, pi. IV, f. 1. 

 Melipotes gymnops fumigatus, Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. 



Zool. X, 1903, p. 439. 



Two specimens. Owen Stanley Mountains. Coll. Henkelman. 



Myzomela rosenbergii Schlegel. 



Myzomela rosenbergii Schlegel, Ned. Tijdschr. Dierk. IV 

 (1871), p. 38. — von Rosenberg, Reist. Geelvinkbaai. 

 1875, p. 138, pi. XVI, f. 2. 



Myzomela rosenbergi, Gadow, Cat. B. Br. M. IX, 1884, p. 137. 



Five adult males. Owen Stanley Mountains. Coll. Hen- 

 kelman. 



Paradiseidae. 



Xanthomelus aurea (L.). 



Xanthomelus aureus, Rothschild, Tierr. Paradis. 1898, 

 p. 10. — Oort, N. L. M. XXIX, 1907— '08, p. 180. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XXX. 



