ANNALS OF THE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM, No, 2. 
Meliphagid^. 
Myzomela rosenbebgii, Schlegel. Six adult males and one young 
male assuming adult livery, July, 1891, at 5,641 feet. 
Melipotes maculata, n.s. Sides of breast with dark central spots. 
Head black; back and scapulars brown, slightly tinged with olive, the 
feathers with faintly paler edges ; lower back and upper tail-coverts 
rather paler brown, uniform. Lower surface grey, paler on the throat ; 
margins of the feathers of the upper breast and of the sides of the 
lower breast grey, centres of the latter dark fuscous forming distinct 
spots. Centre only of lower breast and abdomen tinged with fulvous. 
Edge of wing, under wing-coverts, and under tail-coverts pale sordid 
fulvous. A ridge of feathers longer than those of the throat pro- 
ceeding from the lower base of the mandible beneath the wattle 
dark-brown, tipped with grey. Upper surface of wings, tail, and 
wing-coverts brown ; the primaries narrowly, the secondaries and 
coverts more broadly, edged with grey. Wings and tail below ashy 
brown ; inner edge of remiges sordid grey. Bill black with the tip 
brown ; feet washed with lead colour. Total length, 190'0 ; wing, 
113-0; tail, 114-0; gape, 22*0 ; culmen, 16-5 ; tarsus, 31-0. Female, 
July, 1891, at between 6,000 and 7,000 feet. 
This bird has a longer bill, wing, and tail than M. famigatus, 
Meyer, and is further distinguished by the regularly disposed blackish 
spots on the sides of the lower breast. It is clearly not represented 
by the figure of M. fumigatus in the Zeitschrift fur die Gres. Ornith., 
1886, Heft II. 
I here insert a description which should have appeared in my 
Report on the Owen Stanley birds : — 
TlMELIIDJE. 
Amalocichla, n.g. Bill geocichline, but with the nostril small and 
placed in the anterior end of the nasal groove, and with the under 
mandible straight as far as the tip, which is slightly deflected ; mandi- 
bular notch shallow. Rictal bristles moderate. AVlng short, rounded, 
concave ; first primary about half its length shorter than the second ; 
second to fifth, which is the longest, graduated. Tail of twelve 
feathers, rounded, shorter than wing. Tarsus elongate, slender, ocreate. 
Plumage soft and loose. 
Amalocichla sclateriana, n.s. Above rufous brown ; head smoky 
brown ; the feathers of the hind-head with fuscous margins. Upper 
and under tail-coverts rufous; chin and throat white, appearing as an 
ill-defined gorget ; the feathers with narrow pale-brown edges, forming 
obscure transverse bars. Feathers of the upper breast greyish-white, 
with broad smoky-brown margins forming an ill-defined pectoral band. 
Lower breast, sides of abdomen, and thighs grey ; centre of abdomen 
white. Lores grey mottled with brown ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides 
of neck rufous, grading to rufous brown, and edged with fuscous 
brown. Under wing-coverts and surface of quills ashy-brown, the 
latter with ft large buf spot near tbe base of the inner webs of all but 
