5. EDOLIISOMA. 46 



brown " (A. Everett). Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 0*9, wing 

 5-05, tail 4, tarsus 0-95. 



Hub. Island of Luzon, Philippine archipelago. 



a. Ad. St. Manilla, Luzon. Iluofh Cuming, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of C. ateniina.) 



2. Edoliisoma nigrum. 



Lanius niger, Gam. Voy. CoqtdUe, i. p. 589 ; Less. TraitS, p. 375 ; 



Gray, Gen. B, iii. App. p. 14 ; Giehel, Oni. Thes. ii. p. 442. 

 Lanius melas, Less, et Gam. in Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 128. 

 CeblepjTis melas, *S'. Miill. Verh. Natmirl. Geschied. Land- en Vol- 



kenk. p. 189. 

 Ceblepyris cinnamomoa, S. Midi. t. c. p. 189. 

 Echeniileur de Mare^cot, Honibr. it J acq. Voy. Pole Slid, Ois. pi. 10. 



Campephaga marescotii, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283 (ex. H. Sf J.). 

 Campephaga melas, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 353 ; 



Grai/, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 193 ; id. B. New Guinea, p. 32 ; Wall. P. 



Z. S. 18G2, p. 1G5 ; Boscnb. J. f. 0. 1864, p. 121 ; Finsch, Neu- 



Guinea, p. 171 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 338, no. 5094; Meyer, Sitz. 



k. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 389. 

 Campephaga cinnamomea, Gj'ay, Gen. B. i. p. 283 ; Bp. Consp. i, 



p. 383; Rosenb. J.f. O. 18G4, p. 121. 

 Edoliisoma marescoti, Jacq. et Pucker. Voy. Poh Sud, Zool. iii. p. 69 ; 



Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 540. 

 Edoliisoma melau, Sclater, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1858, p. 100. 

 Campephaga mclsena, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 435; HaHl. J.f. O. 



1865, p. 156. 

 Edoliisoma melas, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Cinic. vii. p. 772 ; id. Sf 



U Albert, t. c. p. 821 ; Salvad. op. cit. ix. p. 27, xii. p. 137; Sharpe, 



Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xiii. p. 317. 



Adult male. General colour above glossj- purplish black, the 

 upper tail-coverts and wing-coverts edged with purple ; quills black, 

 with a greenish gloss on the inner secondaries, the primaries exter- 

 nally margined with purple ; tail-feathers glossy black, with a slight 

 steel-greenish lustre, the feathers obscurely margined with purjdish ; 

 sides of head and entire under surface of body glossy purplish black, 

 as also the under wing-coverts ; quills brownish black below. Total 

 length 8-2 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-9, tail 3-8, tarsus 0'9. 



AiluJt female. Different from the male : of a foxy red colour, 

 including the tail-feathers, which are somewhat browner on the 

 inner webs ; crown of head browner than the back ; wing-coverts 

 olive-brown edged with foxy rufous, the secondaries also of this 

 colour ; bastard plumes and primary-coverts brown, edged with 

 olive ; primaries brown, margined with dull rufous-brown ; lores 

 and an eyebrow deep foxy rufous ; feathers in front of the eye 

 blackish ; sides of face deep foxy rufous, the ear-coverts with huffy 

 whitish shaft-lines ; entire under surface of body foxy rufous, in- 

 cluding the under wing-coverts : (juills brown below, ashy fulvous 

 along the inner webs. Total length 9-;J inches, culmen 0-85, wing 

 4-6, tail 3-7, tarsus 0-9. 



