( 523 ) 



young male seems to indicate tli.it the black crown is partially gained by a change 

 of colour in the feathers. 



This bird was fonml jilentiful between 30(i0 and 4fion feet in the hills of 

 Mangarai. 



41. Pachycephala fulvotincta Wall. 

 Not rare at Endeh and in Mangarai, from the low country to above 3000 feet. 

 There is a great deal of variation in the colour of the secondaries and longer wing- 

 coverts, these being olive in some, rufous in others. The rnfous colour is {)robablv 

 a sign of nonage, but it is not only found in very young birds, which have blackish 

 shaft-lines on the breast. The young male has the " irides raw sienna-brown ; bill 

 dark sepia-brown ; legs light bluish plumbeous, claws light grey-brown." 



42. Chibia bimaensis (Bp.). 

 Half a dozen specimens from Mangarai. Tails to end of central rectrices 

 only 110 to 115 mm. In (tyj^ical) specimens from Sambawa they seem a little 

 longer on an average. 



*43. Edoliosoma dohertyi Harteit. 



To my great surprise, a series "f both sexes of this bird, which 1 had described 

 from Sumba (Nov. Zool. III. p. 584), is now sent by Mr. Everett from the hills of 

 Mangarai, where they were not unfreqnently found between 3000 and 400U feet. 

 The. female, of which Mr. Everett has also collected a number in Sumba, is grey 

 above, the rump a little lighter, lores blackish, ear-coverts very dark grey with 

 whitish spots. Wings black, inner edges towards base white, outer webs of largest 

 upper wing-coverts and of secondaries with very wide whitish borders. Tail black, 

 central pair dark ashy grey on basal half or more, outer rectrices with wide grey 

 tips and a narrow almost white edge on the utmost tip, the following one or two 

 pairs with narrow whitish grey tips. Entire under surface white, greyish on chin, 

 and all over barred across with greyish black, closest on the throat, widest on the 

 under tail-coverts, and less deep black on the under wing-coverts. Wing 122 — 

 124 mm. ; tail about 108 to 110 mm. ; exposed culmen 19 mm. 



The young male is coloured like the female, but has longer wings. 



44. (Graucalus !) Artamides floris Sharpe. 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. IV. p. 14 (9 descr.) : Biittikofer, Weber's Zoo/. 

 Ergehn. einer Reise in Niederl. 0. Ind. III. p. 290 {$ descr.). Both sexes from the 

 low country of Mangarai. i ad. (A. Everett sexed) : " Irides chocolate-brown ; bill 

 jet-black ; legs and claws greyish black, with a bronzy gloss on the tarsal scutes." 

 ? . " Iris chocolate-brown : bill black, with a brown tinge towards the base ; feet 

 grey-black." An evidently younger female shows whitish edges to the grey 

 feathers of the underside and on a few feathers of the back, and has broader white 

 borders to the quills. 



*45. Pericrocotus lansbergi Biittik. 

 This is another surprise for the Flores oruis. It was hitherto only known 

 from Sambawa. (Cf. Nov. Zool. III. p. 569, PI. XI. figs. 1, 2.) Specimens from 

 Flores do not differ from those from Sambawa. 



