42 CAMPOPHAGID^. 



more duskj' and not so velvety black ; the secondaries as well as the 

 primaries have a narrow and nearly obsolete hoary-grey edging, and 

 are much more broadly margined with white on the inner web be- 

 low ; tail black, the outer feathers with a narrow white tip, the two 

 centre feathers dark grey for the greater part of their extent, black 

 at the tips. Total length 8-8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 4-85, tail 4, 

 tarsus 0*8. (Mas. Dresden.) 



Uab. Island of Mafoor in the Bay of Geolvink. 



5. EDOLIISOMA. ^^^^ 



Edoliosonia, Jacq. ct Pticher. Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. Oh. p. 69 



(1853) E. melan. 



Range. Malayan archipelago, Philippine Islands, Timor, Molucca 

 Islands from Celebes to New Guinea and North-eastern Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Uniform below, not barred. 

 «'. Black above and below. 



a". Rump dai'k slaty grey ccendescens (S , p. 44. 



b". Rump like the rest of the upper surface. 



a"'. Reflexions of black plumage purple . . nigi-um cS , p. 45, 

 b'". Reflexions of black plumage bottle- 

 green dispar J , p. 4G. 



b'. Black below, grey above, with black wings 



and tail montanum J , p. 40. 



c'. Grey below ; under tail-coverts like ab- 

 domen, 

 c". Centre tail-featbera black ; no ashy tips 



to any of the outer tail-feathers montanum J , p. 46. 



d". Centre tail-feathers entirely grey with 



no black tip incertum $ , p. 52. 



(•". Centre tail-feathers gTey with a spot of 

 black near the tip ; outer tail-feathers 

 tipped with ashy grey. 

 Greater wing-coverts conspicuously 

 with white bordering' the 



grey. 

 rt*. With a blacldsh shade on the ear- 

 coverts and cheeks ; throat sha- 

 dowed with darlver grey, so that 

 it looks a little darker than the 

 rest of the under surface. 

 a'. General colour light slaty grey, 

 the centre tail-feathers nearly 

 entirely light slaty grey hke the 

 back, with a small black spot at 



the tip ceramense, p. 47. 



¥". General colour dark bluish slate- 

 colour, the centre tail-featliers 

 like the back, gradually shading 

 off' into black at the tip salvadorii cj , p. 48. 



