7. P.SECDORECTES. 287 



rufous, the breast and centre of abdomen paler ; head conspicuously 

 crested ; upper tail-coverts and tail brownish ruddy ; eyebrow dusky ; 

 bill black ; feet very strong, lead-coloured in skin. Total length 

 9'1 inches, culmen 0-9, wing o-lo, tail 3-95, tarsus 1-65. (Sahadori.) 

 Hab. Mount Morait, X.W. New Guinea. 



7. Rectes jobiensis. 



Rectes jobiensia, Meyer, Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 205 ; Sakad. Ann. 

 Miis. Cicic. Genov. \u. p. 773. 



Adult mtde (type of species). General colour above bright foxy 

 red, paler on the head ; wing-coverts like the back ; quills dark 

 brown, externally rufous, the inner secondaries entirely rufous ; 

 tail-feathers chestnut, the shafts rufous ; lores, sides of face, and 

 under surface of body deep rich tawny buff, darker on the throat 

 and fore neck, and inclining to chestnut on the lower flanks and 

 under tail-coverts : under wing-coverts bright tawny, like the 

 breast ; quills dusky brown below, rufous on the outer web and 

 along the inner web ; bill light yellowish horn-colour ; feet 

 blackish, claws pale. Total length 9-2 inches, culmen 11-5, wing 

 4-65, tail 4-35, tarsus 1'35. 



Adidt female. Similar to the male. Total length 10'5 inches, 

 wing 4-6, tail 4-3, tarsus 1*25. 



Yottuf/ male. Similar in colouring to the adult, but rather duller; 

 the bill shorter and duller brown. 



Hab. Island of Jobi, in the Bay of Geelvink, New Guinea. 



n, 6. (S2 ad. sk. .lobi Island. Dr. A. B. Meyer [C.]. 



7. PSEUDORECTES. 



Eectes (pt.), and. recent. 



Range. New Guinea and adjacent Papuan Islands. Am Islands ; 

 Waigiou ; Mysol. 



Ki'ii to the Species. 



a. Smaller: bill black ; uuderneath fawn-buff ... . ferrttgineus,^.2%". 



b. ]Much lar<rer : biU yellowish white ; below chest- 



nut fawn-colour lencorhynchus, p. 288. 



1. Pseudorectes ferrugineus. 



Pie-Grieche bruyante, Homhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pule Sud, Atlas, pi. 0. 



fig. 1. 

 Garrulax ferrugineus. S. Miill. in Mtw. Lttyd. unde 

 Rectes ferrugineus, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. b(\-^ ; Salrad. Ann. 3Ius. Civic. 



Genov. vii! p. 82.3. 

 Rectes strepitan.i, Homhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Tiwtc.m. ■^. (50; 



Grail, Cat. Mamm. Ac. yeic Guinea, p. .■)4 : Frn,ic/i, yeii-Giiinea, 



p. 170. 

 (.'olliiriLincln stro])iljiii.«, Graii. llnnd-t. J>. i, p. ."'.s."). 



