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NOTES ON PAPUAN BIRDS. 



By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., and ERNST HARTERT, Ph.P. 



(Continued from Volume X. 1903. p. 480.) 



[Fur the localities mentioned in these notes see the " Introduction " to this series of 

 articles in Nov. Zool. 1901. pp. 55 — 61, and the maps, Pis. II. and III. in the same 

 volume of this Journal. The former portions of 1 his series are as follows: 

 Vol. viii. pp. 55 — 88 (Introduction, 1'ittidae, Psiltaci), and pp. 102 — 102 (C'ohtmbae, 

 Megapodiidae, llallidae, Liraicolae, Alcedinidae) ; Vol. x. pp. 65 — 116 (Pnntdiseidae, 

 Corvidae, Laaiidae, Dicruridae, Oriolidae, Artamidae, Stumidae), pp. 196 — 231 

 (Meropidae, Coraciidae, Podargidae, Caprimulgidae, Cypselidae, Campephagidaei 

 Nectariniidae, Dicaeidae, the genus Mij-jimda, .Uotacillidae, Sylviidae, Timeliidae) ' 

 and pp. 435 — 480 (Meliphugidae, the genus Zosterops, flimmUniiliw, Miisckapidae, 

 additions to Dicaeidae, Laniidae, and Timeliidae). We hope to continue the 

 subject shortly.] 



XXX. ODCULIDAE. 



Cuculus saturatus Blyth. 



CuciVus saturatus Blytb, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal y\\. p. 942 (1843 : ex Hodgson, MS. ; Nepal). 



8 fere ad., Pig6n in the St. David's or Mapia group, north of Arfak, 

 October 1896. W. Doherty coll. 



2 ? ? jnv., Punatch or Bras, in the St. David's or Mapia gronp, October 1896. 

 W. Doherty coll. 



8 ad., Mysol, 16. i. 1900. H. Kiihn coll. (No. 1776.) 



2 88 fere ad., 1 ? ad., Milne Bay 12. xii. 1898, 17. i. 1899. A. S. Meek coll. 

 (Nos. 2168, 2174, 2181.) 



1 8 ad., Avera, Aroa River, 9. iii. 1903. A. S. Meek coll. (No. A. 386.) 



The Genus CACOMANTIS. 



The species of the genus Cacomantis are not too well known and their 

 nomenclature has so often been changed that it is not easy to name a Cacomantis 

 The Papuan forms were well explained by Salvadori in the immortal Ornitologia 

 della Papuasia, far less" clearly in vol. xix. of the Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Their 

 nomenclature has afterwards been involved, because partially wrongly interpreted 

 by Finsch in Notes Leyden Museum xxii. pp. 81 — 89, thongh some valuable notes 

 on types and others were added. 



The species inhabiting New Guinea — as far as they are known to us — 

 may be distinguished as follows : 



Upper snrface deep bluish schistaceous, underside bright chestnut-rufous. 

 Wing about 115 — 120 mm. Young unbarred above and below : C. castaneiventris. 



Upper surface bluish schistaceous, underside dirty clouded chestunt-brown 

 Wing about 137 — 142 mm. Young unbarred above, barred below : ('. excitus. 



Upper ^surface pale greyish olivaceous,* underside pale grey, washed with 



* There appears to be a clerical error in Cat. II. lint. Mus. xix. p. 272, where the head is said to have 

 barely a trace of grey, while, as a rule, it is almost entirely grey with only a tiDge of olivaceous. 



