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Utanata and a young bird from Timor ; but this, according to me, belongs to a 

 much lighter species, not yet named, of which I have seen adult specimens in the 

 British Museum. With the same name of Ceblepyris plumbea there is in the Leyden 

 Museum a specimen marked " Borneo ; " it is a young bird exactly like that from Timor, 

 and I think that the locality is wrong. On the evidence of this specimen, Hartlaub 

 (Journ. f. Orn., 1865, p. 155) has asserted the existence of Ceblepyris plumbea, Mull., in 

 Borneo. 



20. Dicruropsis assimilis, G. R. Gr. 



Dierurus assimilis, G. R. Gr., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858, p. 129, Arrou (type examined). 

 Chibia assimilis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mm, vol. iii. p. 239 (1877). 

 Dicruropsis assimilis, SalvacL, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 96. 



[No. 214. AVokan. Female. Eyes dull red ; feet and bill black. Stomach contained 

 insects.] 



21. Colluricincla megarhyncha, Q. and G. 



Museicapa megarhyncha, Quoy and Gaim., Voy. Astrol. Zool., vol. i. p. 172, pi. iii. fig. 1 (1830), 



Dorey (type examined). 

 Napothera elmoides, Mull, Mus. Lugd. (type examined). 



Myiolestes aruensis, G. R. Gr., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858, p. 180, Arrou (type examined). 

 Pinarolestes megarhynchus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., vol. iii. p. 295 (1877). 

 Colluricincla megarhyncha, Salvad., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 96. 



[No. 240. Male. Eyes hazel ; legs slate. Shot at Wanumbai.] 



I quite agree with Mr Sharpe in uniting the Arrou bird with the New Guinea one. 



22. Redes aruensis, Sharpe. 



Rectes dichrous, G. R. Gr. (nee. Bp.), Proc. Zool. Soc, 1858, p. 179, Arrou. 

 Rectes aruensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vol. iii. p. 285 (1877), Arrou (type examined) ;* 

 Salvad., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 96. 



[No. 238. Wanumbai. Female. Eyes dull red ; feet slate-colour with a violet 

 tinge ; stomach contained land-shells and remains of insects. 



No. 255. Wanumbai. Female. Eyes hazel.] 



These specimens, both marked females, and a female collected by Beccari in the Arrou 

 Islands agree in having the head blackish, the front-neck blackish tinged with reddish- 

 brown, the uropygium and the upper tail-coverts blackish-brown, the tail blackish above, 

 and decidedly reddish-brown underneath. These three specimens, all marked females, 

 differ from two other specimens collected by Beccari, marked males. These have the 



1 The type of Rectes dichrous ceramensis, Meyer (Sitzb. Ak. Wien, vol. lxix. p. 208), which I have lately seeii in the 

 Museum of Vienna, is a specimen of Rectes uropygialis, Gray, and not of Rectes aruensis, as Mr Sharpe suspected. The 

 locality, Ceram, is, no doubt, wrong. Rectes draschi, Pelzeln, Verh. z.-b. Gesell. Wien, 1876, p. 218, is a female of 

 Edoliosoma schisticeps, G. R. Gr. (ex Hombr. and Jacq., Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, Zool., pi. x. fig. 1, female). 



