1. ORIOLTJS. 211 



lU. Oriolus bouruensis. 



Pbiledon bouruensis, Quoy et Gnim. Voy. de VAstr. Zool. i. p. 192, 



pi. 8. fig. 2. 

 Tropidoihynehus bouruensis, Bp. Cottsp. i. p. 390. 

 Minieta bouruensis, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 26 ; Finsch, Neu-Guinen, 



p. 173. 

 Oxiolus buruensis, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Coraces, p. 113. 



Adult male. General colour above earthy brown, without any 

 shade of olive-green or yellow ; head lighter than the back, the 

 feathers centred with darker brown, giving a striped appearance, 

 especially on the forehead, where the plumes are edged with huffy 

 whitish ; over the eye a narrow line of whity-browu feathers, getting 

 broader on the sides of the head, whence it encircles the nape, 

 separating the crown from the hinder neck, which is darker brown 

 than the rest of the back ; lores, feathers round the eye, and ear- 

 coverts very dark brown, contrasting with the sides of the neck, 

 which are whity brown, here and there spotted with darker brown; 

 cheeks and throat dull whitish, streaked with black, more thickly 

 on the raalar line and sides of the throat ; rest of the iinder surface 

 of the body ashy brown, the fore neck whity brown, like the throat ; 

 under wing- and tail-coverts slightly rufescent, especially the 

 former ; wings above dark brown, the coverts and the primaries 

 narrowly edged with pale rufous, the secondaries almost impercep- 

 tibly tipi)ed with whitish ; taU-feathcrs dark brown, the margins 

 rather lighter, tipped with very pale nifous, the terminal spots 

 larger on the inner web. Total length 12-6 inches, culmen 1-5, 

 wing 5-75, tail 5'1, tarsus I'l. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but with broader rufous margins to 

 the wing-coverts ; the head more obscurely brown, and not so di- 

 stinctly striped as in the adult. 



Bah. Bouru. 



rt. J ad. slv. Bom-u. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



h, c. Juv. sk. Bouru. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



20. Oriolus phseochromns. 



Oriolus pbseochromus. Gray. P. Z. *'. 18G0, p. 351 ; Schl. M. P.-B. 



Coraces, p. 114 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 293. 

 Mimeta phfeuocliroma, Fiitsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173. 

 Mimeta pli£eochroma, Sulvad. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genoi: vii. p. 31. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above and below brown, 

 with more or less concealed whitish shafts to the feathers of the 

 mantle ; wings and tail rather lighter than the back, with pale ful- 

 vous-brown shafts, the primaries rufous at the base of the inner 

 web ; on the throat and fore neck a decided shade of grey ; bill 

 black : legs blackish in skin. Total length 10-2 inches, culmen 1-15, 

 wing 5-4, tail 4-2, tarsus 0"9.5. 



lluh. Island of Halmahora. 



