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Show 1879.] MR. W . A. FORBES O N THE GENUS MYZOMELA. 269 16. MYZOMELA RUBROTINCTA. Myzomela rubrotincta, Salvad. Ann.'Mus. Civ. Genov. xii. p. 344 (1878). "Brunnea, dorso, alis et cauda pulcherrime rubro tinctis; pectore, abdomine et subcaudalibus obsoletius rubro tinctis. Long. tot. •120 m., alee *067, caud. *048, rostri *020, tars. *020." Hab. "in ins. Obi (Bernstein)," Salvad. /. c. This species has recently been described by Count Salvadori from five specimens-two males and three females-the two sexes are similar-in the Leyden Museum. He says it " resembles M. simplex of Gray from Halmahera, in which only the remiges and rectrices (and not all the parts between the head and neck) are margined with red, and in which the red colour is very indistinct." 17. MYZOMELA RUBROBRUNNEA. (Plate XXIV. fig. 2.) Myzomela rubrobrunnea, Meyer, Sitzungsber. Ak. in Wien, lxx. p. 203 (1874). cf grisescenti-brunneus,subtus dilutior, capite saturatiore, plumis plus minusve vinaceo limbatis; dorso inferiore et uropygio, cum marginibus externis remigum et rectricum vinaceo-rubris; alis caudaque subtus griseis; margine interna remigum albida; rostro pedibusque nigro-eorneis. Long, tota circa 4, alee 2*4, caud. 1*8, rostr. *6, tars. *55 (poll. Angl.). 5 mari similis, sed coloribus minus intensis et paullo minor. Hab. in insula Mysore. Dr. Meyer first discovered this beautiful species of Myzomela, during his travels in and about New Guinea in 1873. He obtained only two specimens, both males, at Kordo, the chief settlement in the island of Mysore in Geelvink Bay. Beccari obtained others in the same island, to which it is apparently confined ; and from one of his specimens, a fine male, kindly lent me by Count Salvadori, the figure is taken. This species resembles M. simplex and M. rubrotincta of the M o luccas, but differs from both in the red margins to the feathers being continued over a larger part of the bird. 18. MYZOMELA CRUENTATA. Myzomela cruentata, Meyer, Sitzungsber. Ak. Wien, lxx. i. p. 202 (1874) ; Gould, B. New Guin. pi. pt. v. Myzomela coccinea, Ramsay, Proc. L. S. N.S. W . ii. p. 106 (1877) ? (Ex insulis Ducis Eboraci.) Myzomela erythrina, Ramsay, Proc. L. S. N. S. W . ii. p. 107 (1877) ? (Ex Nova Hibernia.) cS corpore omnino chermesino, uropygio splendidiore, plumis ad basin nigris; alis rubricantibus, plumis externe rubris; remigibus fuscis, primis duobus exceptis, rubro limbatis ; rectricibus rubido-griseis, externe rubro marginatis ; alis caudaque subtus |