( 439 ) 

 Chrysococcyx plagosus (Lath.). 



Cumins plagosus Latham, Iml. tint.. Supph p. xxxi. (1801 — Australia). 



1 ? , Ron Island, July 1897. W. Doherty coll. " Iris reddish, feet iron-grey, 

 bill black." 



1 ?, St. Aignan, Louisiade Islands, 28. viii. 1897. A. S. Meek coll. (No. 910.) 



5 c?fJ, 1 ?, Woodlark Island, April 1897. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos. 188, 193, 

 214, 210, 217, 217a.) Nearly all these specimens have the head and neck aliove 

 metallic green, but they appear to be more or less immature, and therefore we have 

 no doubt that they belong to C. plagosus. 



1 juv., Owen Stanley Mountains, 11,000 ft., 23. viii. 1895. A. S. Anthony coll. 

 This bird we believe to belong to Ch. plagosus, though we are not certain about 

 this. It is above dark metallic green, underneath greyish, the feathers of the 

 throat and jugulnm with ante-apical white bars, the sides of the breast and abdomen 

 and the under tail-coverts distinctly barred with bronzy brown, the middle of 

 the abdomen white. Under wing-coverts with bronzy brown bars, the nsnal bar 

 across the underside of the wing white with a buffy tinge. The feet are orange 

 in the skin. 



1 <J, Aola, Guadalcanal', 4. v. 1887. C. M. Woodford coll. 



1 (?, 2 ? ?, Gnadalcanar, April, May 1901. A. 8. Meek coll. (Nos. 2959, 

 3044, 3122.) 



1 ?, Isabel, Solomon Islands, 20. vi. 1901. A. S. Meek coll. (No. 3400.) 



All these specimens from the Solomon Islands have hardly any coppery colour 

 on the head and mantle, but again most of them are not fully adult. We therefore 

 (in concord with all other ornithologists) cannot separate them from C. plagosus. 

 Larger series might, however, show that Australian specimens have longer wings 

 than those from New Guinea and the Papuan Islands. 



In Nov. Zool. 1905. p. 258 we recorded a male of C. plagosus from Bougain- 

 ville, but this specimen is a ( '. lutidus, an error which we herewith correct. 



Calliechthrus leucolophus (Mull.). 



Cuculus leucolophus S. Muller, Verh. Nut. Gesrh. Ned. Ind., " Land- en Volkenkunde," p. 22 ( 1S44 

 Lobo Bay). 



Known from New Guinea, Salwatti, Waigin and Mysol. We have the 

 following specimens : 



2 without labels, Dutch New Guinea. (Preparation of Bruijn's hunters.) 



1 3, North coast of Dutch New Guinea, between 130" and 137° long. (Bruijn's 

 hunters.) 



2 cJ<J, Kapanr, December 1890, February 1897. William Doherty coll. 

 1 inn., Constantinhafen, Kaiser Wilhelm's Land. Kubary coll. 



3 '<? ? , Milne Bay, 18, 20. iii., 9. iv. 1899. A. S. Meek coll. (Nos. 2383, 2479, 

 2450.) 



1 ad., 1 immat., Mountains of British New Guinea. (Purchased.) 



1 immat., Brown River, British New Guinea. E. Weiske coll. 



2 immat., Mount Cameron, Owen Stanley Mountains, August 1890. A. 8. 

 Anthony coll. 



4 d> <$ , 1 ¥, Avera, Aroa River, January, February, March 1903. A. S. Meek 

 coll. (Nos. A 83, 123, 274, 381, 431.) 



1 cJ, Owgarra, Angabunga River, 28. x. 04. A. S. Meek coll. (No. 1807.) 



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