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Genus XXII. PTERIDOPHORA.

Nae 1, PreripoPHORA ALBERTI.

Pteridophora alberti, Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part vii. (1897).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2,
p- 51 (1898).—Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 21 (1898).
Both Dr. Meyer and the Hon. Walter Rothschild differ from me as to the natural position of the genus

Pteridophora w the Paradiseide.

Genus XXIII. SEMIOPTERA.

Ate 1. Semroprera WALLACI.

Semioptera wallacn, Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part v. (1895).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vii. no. 2,
p. 50 (1898).
Semioptera wallacei (typica), Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 37 (1898).

2. SEMIOPTERA HALMAHERE
Add :-— I ERA HALMAHERE.

Semioptera wallacii, pt., auct. (spec. ex Ins. Halmahéra).
Semioptera wallacit, var. halmahere, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia e delle Molucche, ii. p. 573 (1881).—Id. Agg. Orn.
Papuasia ete. ii. p. 157 (1890).
Semioptera gouldi, Boucard, Humming-Bird, i. p. 43 (1891).
Semicptera halmahere, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xiii (1894).—Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus.
Dresden, vii. no. 2, p. 50 (1898).
Semioptera wallacii, pt., Sharpe, Monogr. Parad. part v. (1895).
Semioptera wallacet halmahera, Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 38 (1898).
On a reconsideration of the subject, I have come to the conclusion that the Halmahera Standard-wing can
be separated from the Batchian bird by slight but constant characters, and it bas been recognized as distinct
by Dr. Meyer and the Hon. Walter Rothschild. As it is confined to a separate island, a trinomial name

ought scarcely to have been given.

Genus XXIV. PHONYGAMA.

Mr. Rothschild points out (Thierreich, /. c. p. 46) that the oldest name for this genus is Phonygammus,
Less. & Garnier, in Férussac, Bull. Sci. Nat. viii. p. 110 (1826).

Add 1. PHoNYGAMA KERAUDRENI.
Phonygama keraudreni, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xii (1894).—Id. Monogr. Parad. part iv. (1895).—

Meyer, Abhandl. k. zool. Mus. Dresden, vil. no. 2, p. 51 (1898).
Phonygammus keraudreni, Rothschild, Thierreich, Lief. 2, Parad. p. 46 (1898).
The great resemblance of immature P. yamesi, in its steel-blue plumage, to P. keraudrenn, has led to the
uniting of the two birds under the latter beading, and the extension of the range from Dutch New Guinea to
S.E. New Guinea. Having gone over the series of specimens in the Rothschild Museum, I have adopted his

opinion that P. keraudreni is not found in the last-named area, and that P. games? is a distinct species.