4. Artamides sumatrensis. 



Ceblepyris novas-guinefe, S. MUller, Verh. Natimrl. Geschied. Latid- 



en Volketih. p. 190 {nee Gm.). 

 Ceblepyris sumitrensis, S. Mull. t. c. p. 190. 

 Graiiealus fasciatus £p. Cwisp. i. p. 354 (tiec V.) : Jerd. B. Ind. i. 



p. 418 ; Sclafer, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 218 ; Hartl. J. f. 0. 1864, p. 444. 

 Graucalus concretus, Hartl. J. f. O. 1864, p. 445 ; Walden, Ihis, 1872, 



p. 371. 

 Campephaga sumatrensis, Grat/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 337, no. 5077. 

 Campephaga concreta, Gray, t. c. p. 337, no. 5089. 

 Graucalus sumatrensis, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 150 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, 



p. 312 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. Soc. new series, vol. i. p. 323 : Tweedd. 



P.Z.S. 1878, p. 614. 



Adult male (Sumatra, A. R. Wallace). General colour above 

 light ashy or French grey, the upper tail-coverts hoary and the 

 rump-feathers edged with hoary grey ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 bastard wing black ; primary coverts and quills black, narrowly 

 edged with ashy grey, including the white towards the tips ; the 

 secondaries ashy grey like the back, with hoary-grey margins ; tail- 

 feathers black, ashy brown at the tips, the centre feathers washed 

 with ashy grey for the greater part of their length ; lores, sides of 

 face, and entire under surface of body light ashy grey like the back ; 

 no black on the face ; the under tail-coverts paler and more hoary 

 than the breast ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries ashy grey with 

 white edgings, some of the wing-coverts with indistinct dusky grey 

 b;irs ; quills ashy grey below, whitish along the inner webs ; " iris 

 light lemon-yellow " {A. Everett). Total length 11*8 inches, culmen 

 1-05, wing 5-95, tail 4"5, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the breast and 

 remainder of under surface barred with white and black, the bars 

 about equal in breadth ; the under tail-coverts white, with narrower 

 and less frequent bars of black ; the under wing-coverts and axiUa- 

 ries barred with white and black like the breast ; rump and r;pper 

 tail- coverts barred with black and white, the ground-colour of the 

 feathers grey, plainer on the long under tail-coverts ; quills plainly 

 edged with white ; tail-feathers black, narrowly tipped with white, 

 with a subterminal line of black ; quilk ashy gTcy below, white along 

 the inner web. Total length 11 inches, culmen 1, wing 5-7, tail 

 4-35, tarsus 0-95. 



Hah. Indo-Malayan Region. Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, Palawan. 



a, b. $ ad. sk. Sumatra, 1801. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c, d. 2 ad. st, Sumatra. Dr. Lidth de Jeude [C.]. 



e,f. d ? ad. sk. Kessang, Malacca. M. A. Bouvier [C.]. 



* Eeferences to this bird's occurrence in New Guinea are erroneous. 



