284 rKiosopiDji. 



1. Rectes cirrhocephalus. 



Vang^a liirrhocephnlus, Less. Voij. Coquille, Zool. p. 633, pi. xi. 



Pitohui, Less. Traite, p. 375. 



Rectes kinocephalus, Bp. C. It. xxxi. p. 563 ; Scl. Journ. Linn. Soe. 



1858, p. 161 ; Grai/, P. Z. S. 1859. p. 157 ; id. Cat. Mamm. 8fc. N. 



Guin. p. 33 ; Finsch, Neu-Gviiiea, p. 170 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 696. 

 Timalia poliocepliala, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. 563 {ex Miill.). 

 Rectes dichrous, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. 563 ; <S'c/. Journ. Linn. Soc. 1858, 



p. 161. 

 Rectes bicolor, Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 170 (ex 3IuU. MS. in Mus. 



Luffd.). 

 CoUuricincla kirrocephala, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 385. 

 Rectes cirrhocephala, Meyer, Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ixix. pp. 205, 391 ; 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 772. 



Adult (R. dichrous). Above maroon-chestnut, including the upper 

 tail-coverts ; head crested ; sides of face, throat, and fore neck black ; 

 rest of under surface of body rich orange fawn-colour, including 

 the under wing- and tail-coverts ; least wing-coverts chestnut like 

 the back ; greater and median series black ; quills and tail black ; 

 bill black. Total length 10 inches, culmen 1'2, wing 4"5, tail 4-5, 

 tarsus 1'55. 



Adtdt female. Similar to the male, but having the black of the 

 head and throat somewhat obscured by olive-brown ; quills also 

 washed externally with brownish, and the outer tail-feather brownish 

 on the outer web. Total length 10-8 inches, culmen 1'25, wing 4-8, 

 tail 4-7, tarsus 1-5. 



Young {It. cirrJiocephalus). General colour above bright maroon- 

 chestnut, the least wing-coverts uniform with the back ; greater and 

 median wing-coverts ashy brown, slightly washed with olive, and 

 margined on the edge of the feathers with olive-brown ; quills dark 

 brown, externally ashy brown, with olive margins, the secondaries 

 distinctly washed with the latter colour ; tail ashy bi'own, somewhat 

 washed with olive on the edges of the feathers ; head crested, grey, 

 forming a cap, the sides of the face and entire throat also grey like 

 tlie head; sides of neck maroon- chestnut like the back; rest of 

 under surface of body fawn-colour, including the thighs and under 

 wing- and tail-coverts. Total length 10"9 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 

 4'6, tail 4"6, tarsus 1-3. 



Younger. Similar to the foregoing, but everywhere paler in 

 colour. 



Ohs. I could not at first, from a study of the two birds in the 

 Eritish Museum, receive Dr. Meyer's conclusions as to Rectes cirrJio- 

 cepludus being the young of R. dichrous, and I am therefore greatly 

 indebted to him for sending over for my inspection his fine series of 

 these birds, after examining which there is no doubt of the fact of 

 their being one and the same species. The adult male is black- 

 headed, and the adult female is similar, but has the black cap and 

 throat browner. In the young birds a perfect gradation is seen 

 from the pale ashy-headed s})ecimens to the dark-brown ones of the 

 young males, when they resemble the adidt females before finally 



