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MELITHREPTIDiE. 
Microphilemon fuscicapillus (Wall.). (9-279.) 
Morty Island Friar-bird. 
Tropidorhynchus fuscicapillus Wallace, Ibis, 1862, p. 451 : Morty 
Island. 
Distr . — Moluccas (Morty Island). 
Microphilemon eichhorni (R. & H.). New Ireland Friar-bird- 
Philemon eichhorni Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 
vol. xlv. p. 8, 1924 : hills of South-West New Ireland. 
Distr . — New Ireland. 
Genus ALPHAPHILEMON Math. 
Alphaphilemon Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xlv. p. 94, 1925. 
Type (by original designation): Tropidorkynchus diemenensis 
Less. 
Alphaphilemon diemenensis (Less.). (9-276.) 
New Caledonian Friar-bird. 
Tropidorhynchus diemenensis Lesson, Traits d’Orn. p. 401, 1831 : 
Tasmania, error=New Caledonia. (Fig. Arch. Mus. 1855, pi. 21.) 
Tropidorkynchus lessoni Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1859, p. 161 : New 
Caledonia. 
Distr. — New Caledonia. 
Alphaphilemon albitorques (Scl.). (9-278.) 
White-naped Friar-bird. 
Philemon albitorques Sclatcr, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 553 : 
Admiralty Islands. (Fig. Voy. Chall. pi. 8.) 
Distr . — Admiralty Islands. 
Genus PHILEMONOPSIS Salvad. 
Philemonopsis Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. xvi. p. 79, 1880. 
Type (by original designation): Philemon meyeri Salvad. 
Philemonopsis meyeri (Salvad.). (8-281.) Grey Friar-bird. 
Philemon meyeri Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vol. xii. p. 339, 
1878 : Rubi, New Guinea. 
Philemonopsis meyeri canescens Reichenow, Journ. f. Orn. 1915, p. 126 : Etap- 
penberg, New Guinea. 
Distr. —New Guinea. 
Genus MELITOGRAIS Sund. 
Melitograis Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent. p. 50, 1872. Type 
(by monotypy) : Melitograis striata id. = Tropidorhynchus gilo- 
lensis Bp. 
