384 TUfELIID,^. 



very large and distinct ; mantle varied with arrow-shaped central 

 markings of yellowish buff to all the feathers. Total length 13-3 

 inches, ciilmen 1"45, wing 6-1, tail 5-2, tarsus 1"8. 

 The Black-checked Cat-bird inhabits the Aru Islands. 



a. S ad. St. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. (Type 



of species.) 



b. 2 ad. .sk. Ani Islands^ A. R. WaUace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Wokan, Aru Islands^ {J. Voyage of H.M.S. 'Chal- 



Murrai/). lenger.' 



</, e. Ad. sk. Aru Islands' (/. C'ocZ;fre//). Gould CoUecti on. 



2. .ffiluroedus arfakianus. 



Ptilonorhynclius melanotis, pt., Rosenb. J. f. O. 1864, p. 122. 

 Ptilorhynchus melanotis, pt., Schl. N. T. D. iv. p. 51 (1871). 

 ^lurcfidus melanotis {nee Gray), Sclater, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 697; 



Elliot, Monogr. Parad. Intr. p. xxii (1873) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1874, 



p. 416. 

 Ailuroedus arfakianus, Mei/er, Sits. k. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Ixix. p. 82 



(1874) ; Sclater, Ibis, 1874, p. 416 ; Gould, B. New Guinea, part i. 



(1875). 

 .^luroedus arfakianus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 193 



(1876), X. p. 151 (1877) ; id. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 99 ; U Albert. Ntiam 



Guinea, p. 581 (1880) ; Salvad. Orn. delta Papuasia, p. 673 (1881). 

 Ptilorhj-ncbus arfakianus, Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 370 (1877). 

 Ptilonorhynchus arfakianus, Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 554 (1879). 



Adult. Feathers of the head and neck black, ornamented with 

 pale fulvous snbterminal spots ; nape black ; feathers of the upper 

 back blackish, fulvescent in the middle ; the remainder of the back, 

 rump and upper tail-coverts, upper surface of wings and of tail 

 black ; lores, cheeks, and sides of nock whitish buff, the edges of the 

 feathers blackish ; a large spot on the ear-coverts black, with 

 another similar, though smaller, one at the base of the lower man- 

 dible ; fore-neck blackish, the feathers ornamented in the middle by 

 a lanceolate fulvous spot ; upper breast and sides greenish, each 

 feather having a lanceolate fulvous spot, surrounded with dusky 

 towards the tip ; lower breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 ochre-yellow and unspotted, more or less washed with greenish ; 

 wings externally green, the median and greater coverts, as well as 

 the inner secondaries, having a large yellowish-white spot at the tip ; 

 quills dusky blackish on the inner web, bluish on the outer web of 

 the primaries ; edge of wing yello-wish green ; under wing-coverts 

 whitish, varied with dusky and greenish ; tail green above, dusky 

 below, tinged vrith blue, with a broad white tip ; " bill yellowish ; 

 feet lead-colour ; iris blood-red"' (D'Albertis). Total length 13-5 

 inches, culmen 1"15, wing 6-3, tail 5, tarsus 1-7. (Salvadori.) 



The Arfak Cat-bird inhabits the Arfak mountains, in North- 

 western New Guinea, and is supposed also to inhabit Mysol. 



