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recently described Paradiseidse. 
In the ‘ Tierreich' I also united Chlarnydera nuchalis and 
C. orientalis as identical, being misled by some wrongly 
labelled specimens; they are, however, confined to different 
areas of the Australian continent and should stand as sub¬ 
species thus :— 
Chlarnydera nuchalis nuchalis (Jard. & Selby).—Northern and 
North-west Australia. 
Chlarnydera nuchalis orientalis Gould.—Queensland. 
Since 1898 I have received specimens of Diphyllodes 
gulielmi-tertii from German New Guinea and British New 
Guinea. They were shot respectively between Bongu and 
Stephansort, and in the Owen Stanley Mountains. 
These are the first properly localised specimens known, as 
all the others were skins traded out of Dutch New Guinea. 
The British New Guinea bird has the belly whiter than any 
others that I have yet seen, but, as the specimens all vary 
inter se, I do not venture to separate it until more examples 
come from there. 
I also have received the second known specimen of: Pary- 
phephorus duivenbodei from British New Guinea. This was 
brought home by Mr. A. E. Pratt, who stated that it was 
killed at Foula, 4000 ft. in the mountains between the Aroa 
and St. Joseph's Rivers in British New Guinea. 
Dr. Sharpe, in the ‘History of the Collections in the 
Natural History Museum' (vol. ii. p. 131), has proved that 
Latham's Turdus melinus was not Sericulus mehnus auct., 
but a Sphecotheres; therefore the correct name for the Regent 
Bird is Sericulus chrysoceplialus (Lewin). 
Dr. Lorenz has at last obtained perfect skins of Xantho- 
melus aureus ardens Alb. & Salvad., and it proves more 
different from X. aureus aureus than I thought, owing to the 
want of the black throat. I still, however, consider it to be 
only the geographical representative of X. a . aureus , as it 
does not differ structurally. 
Paradisea rudolphi hunti (Le Souef) is merely a synonym 
of P. rudolphi, as I have specimens from the typical locality 
