418 Mr. P. L. Sclater on Dr. A. B. Meyer’s 
example of what is apparently the young of Noctua hoedtii, 
Schlegel. 
Dr. Meyer next turns to the Parrots, and gives some very 
useful remarks upon Platycercus (potius Aprosmictus *) dor¬ 
salis, of which he collected a series of thirty-three examples 
in various parts of New Guinea. Other Psittacidse spoken of 
are Trichoglossus placens and T. rubronotatus. The paper is 
concluded with some remarks on Macropygia turtur, Schlegel, 
and its local forms. 
Dr. Meyer’s fourth f memoir commences with the descrip¬ 
tion of Chcetorhynchuspapuensis , a new form allied to Dicrurus, 
from the Arfak mountains. This is followed by characters of 
Myiolestes macrorhynchus , from Mysore, Pachycephala flavo- 
grisea } Malurus alboscapulatus , and Brachypteryx brunnei- 
ventris , from New Guinea, and Myiagra atra, from Mafoor 
and Mysore. Amaurodryas albotaniata , from Jobi (perhaps, 
as afterwards observed by the author in his fifth memoir, not 
different from Leucophantes brachyurus, Sclater), is next de¬ 
scribed, and remarks are given upon a second species of the 
same genus, A. hypoleuca, Gray. These are succeeded by 
notices of various Papuan Muscicapidse, of which specimens 
were obtained, and notes upon Graucalus papuensis, the Pa¬ 
puan species of Cracticus and Ptilopus aurantiifrons. The 
Cradieus crassirostris lately described by Dr. Salvadori is 
identified with C. quoyi. 
In his fifth and last memoir (read June 18, 1874), Dr. 
Meyer treats of the Meliphagidse which he met with, and de¬ 
scribes Melirrhophetes as a new genus, allied to Melidedes, 
nobis, with two species, M. leucostephes and M. ocliromelas . 
Two other new species are characterized as Xanthotis poikilo- 
sternos (lege pcecilosternus) and Tropidorhynchus jobiensis. 
A new Zoster ops, from Mysore, is called Z. mysorensis; and two 
species of Gerygone, G. affinis and G. maforensis. Dicaewn 
geelvinkianum is a new species obtained in the islands of Ma¬ 
foor, Mysore, and Jobi, while D.pedorale, Mull, et Schl., was 
* Mr. Garrod tells me tliat, as I had always supposed, the group thus 
denominated by Mr. Gould is structurally distinct from Platycercus. 
t Op. cit. (May 16). 
