NOVITATB* ZOOLOOIOAB XXV. 1918. 313 



FUETHER NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF SUDEST ISLAND, 

 OR TAGULA, IN THE LOUISIADE GROUP. 



By lord ROTHSCHILD, F.R.S., Ph.D., and ERNST HARTERT, Ph.D. 



rr^WENTY years ago Hartert published (Novitates Zoologicab, 1898, 

 -*- pp. 521-532) a list of 42 species received from Albert S. Meek from Sudest 

 Island, in wliich eight new species and subspecies were described. We have 

 now received another collection from the same island, brought together, during 

 Mr. Meek's iUness and convalescence, by his experienced collectors, the brothers 

 Eichhorn. It contains a number of forms quite new to the island, and addi- 

 tional skins of most of the others, after comparison with much new material 

 arrived since 1898, enables us to revise the identification of several others, and 

 to separate some new forms. We have also used the opportunity of reviewing 

 some groups of the genus Myiagra and the subspecies of Caprimitlgus macrurus. 



Maiiucodia atra altera R. & H. 



Mamicodia ater altera Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1903. pp. 84. 85 (Eastern New Guinea, 

 Eastern Papuan Islands, Aru Islands. Type : Sudest Island). 



Some fresh specimens fuUy bear out the differences stated in our original 

 description. Mi'. Ogilvie-Grant (Ihis, Jubilee Suppl. ii. 1915, pp. 6, 7) does not 

 admit this race because, as he puts it, " the difference is trifling." The differ- 

 ences, however, are easily seen, when comparing a series of the two subspecies, 

 and confirmed by careful measuring. Possibly the Aru form should again be 

 separated, if sufficient material could be measured. 



Corvus coronoides omi Bp. 



The specimens from the Louisiade Islands and S.E. New Guinea which we 

 have received show a stronger metaUic purpUsh gloss than others, but possibly 

 tins may be due to the freshness of the skins in plumage and age. We adopt the 

 nomenclature of Stresemann, as proposed in Verh. Orn. Ges. Bayern. xii. p. 282. 



Dicrurus bracteatus deiectus (Hart.). 



C'hibia c.arhonaria dejecta Hartert, Nuv. Zool. 1898. p. 522 (Sudest Island). 



An additional series of eight specimens fully bears out the differences of 

 this subspecies. Hartert does not now separate the genus C'hibia, and he treats 

 dejectns and other aUies not only as forms of carbonarius, but also of bracteatus, 



Aplonis cantoroides (Gray). 



Calornis cantoroides Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861. p. 431 (Misol). 



1 <?, ^ 9 Sudest Island, 26.iii. 1916, 8. v. 1916 (Nos. 7317, 7421, 7422). 



This species is new to the island, though known from the Louisiade group, 

 where Meek collected it on St. Aignan. It breeds there and Meek obtained 

 the eggs. 



