46 CAMl'01'nAGIDJ5. 



Yoluuj male (Aiidai, August 1872, B' Albert ix). At first rcsomblcs 

 the old I'emalo, but gradually gains the adult male plumage by the 

 double action of a direct moult and by a change of feather ; " bUl, feet, 

 and iris black" (D'AIhertis). Wing 4-45 inches. {Alus. Civic. Genov.) 



A male bird from Port Moresby differs from others from North- 

 eastern New Guinea in having bronzy-green edgings to the wing- 

 coverts; but as lean see a trace of an occasional green shade on the 

 margins to the wing-coverts in some of the latter, I do not propose 

 to separate as a species the southern bird. The appearance men- 

 tioned is not like the green shade in E. dispar, which is a good 

 species. 



Hah. New Guinea ; Aru Islands. 



a, b. cJ ad., c. $ ad. sk. N.W. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



(I (S ad. sk. Arfak Mountains. M. L. Laglaize [0.]. 



('. c? iid.,/. 5 ad. sk. Amberbaki, New Guinea. JM. L. Lagiaize [C.]. 



'/• c? jnv. sk. Amberbaki, New Guinea. M. L. Lagiaize [C.]. 



'h. S ad. sk. Port Moresby. O. C. Stone, Esq. [C.]. 



i c? juv. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. W^allace, Esq. "' 



k. c? ad. sk. Ansus, Jobi Island, April Ur. A. B. Meyer [0. 



1873. 



f'- 



3. Edoliisoma dispar. 



Edoliisoma dispar, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 329. 



Adult (type of sjiecies : Ke Bandam, July 28th, 1873, Beecari), 

 General colour above and below glossy black, with bottle-green re- 

 flections, the feathers grey at the base. Total length 10 inches, 

 culmen 0*9, wing 5-1, tail 4-5, tarsus 1-05. {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Female (not quite adult: Gran Key, August 1873, Beecari). 

 General colour above olive-brown, greyer on the head, the wing- 

 coverts rather more rufous-brown ; the quills dark brown edged with 

 rufous, the secondaries with fulvous ; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 rufescent at the tip ; lores hoary gi-ey ; in front of the eye a dusky 

 spot, round the eye a ring of whitish plumes ; ear-coverts dark 

 brown with white shaft-streaks ; cheeks and under surface of body 

 rufous-buff, barred with dusky blackish cross lines, narrower on the 

 under tail-coverts, which are more rufous; the under wing- coverts 

 and axillaries i-ufous-buff, the latter with duU brownish cross lines ; 

 quills blackish brown below, rufescent along the inner webs. Total 

 length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4-85, tail 3-8, tarsus 0-95. {Mus. 

 Civic. Genov.). 



Hah. Molucca Islands ; Goram, Tijor, Pulo-Padjang, MonawoLka, 

 Matabello, Banda, Ke. 



a. (J ad. sk. Island of Goram. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



4. Edoliisoma montanum. 



Oanipepliaga montaua, Meyer, Siiz. k. Akad. IVien, Ixix. p. 386. 

 Edoliisoma montanum, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 927. 



Adult male. General colour above blue-grey, including the wing- 

 coverts ; greater coverts black, edged with grey ; bastard wing, 



