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MELITHREPTIDiE. 
Melipotes ater R. & H. Black Honey-eater. 
Mdipotes ater Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xxix. 
p. 13, 1911 : Rawlinson Mts., New Guinea. (Fig. Nov. Zool. 
x.\'v. pi. 6. fig. 1.) 
Distr. —New Guinea (Rawlinson Mts.). 
Melipotes maculatus De Vis. Spotted Honey-eater. 
Melipotes rnaculata De Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New Guinea, 1890-91, 
App. C, p. 94, 1892: Mt. Suckling, S.E. New Guinea. 
Distr. — New Guinea (S.E.). 
Genus MELIDECTES Scl. 
Melidectes Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 694. Type (by 
monotypy): M. torquatus Sclater. 
Melidectes torquatus Scl. Round-eyed Honey-eater. 
Distr. — New Guinea. 
Melidectes torquatus torquatus Scl. (9-285.) 
Melidectes torquatus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1876, p. 694, 
pi. 55 : Atam, Arfak Mts., N.W. New Guinea. (Fig. Gould, 
N. G. vol. iv.) 
Distr. —New Guinea (N.W.). 
Melidectes torquatus emilii Meyer. 
Melidectes emilii Meyer, Zeitschr. Ges. Orn. vol. iii. p. 22, pi. 5. fig. 2, 
1886 : Hufeisengebirge, New Guinea. 
Distr. — New Guinea. 
Melidectes torquatus ornatus De Vib. 
Melirrhaphetes ornatus De Vis, Ann. Rep. Brit. New Guinea, 1893-4, 
App. p. 103, 1894: Mt. Manaeao, South-East New Guinea. 
Distr. — New Guinea (S.E.). 
Melidectes torquatus cahni Mertens. 
Melidectes torquatus cahni Mertens, Senckenbergiana, vol. v. p. 229, 
Dec. 1923 : “ Inneres der Halbinsel von Finschhafen.” 
Distr .— New Guinea. 
Genus MELIRRHOPHETES Meyer. 
Melirrhophetes Meyer, Sitzb. K. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. lxx. p. 110, 
1874. Type (by subsequent designation, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. 
e Mol. vol. ii. p. 320, 1881): M. leucostephes Meyer. 
