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primarj'-coverts, and quills black, with a steel-greeu gloss on the 

 margin, the inner secondaries broadly edged with grey ; tail-feathers 

 black, glossed with stecl-grcon on the margins ; a narrow frontal 

 line, lores, feathers round the eye, sides of face, sides of neck, and 

 entire under surface of body glossy ])lack, the thighs ashy grey; 

 under wing-coverts black ; greater series of under wing-coverts 

 and quills below ashy grey. Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 0-8, 

 wing 5-4, tail 4-3, tarsus 1. 



Adult female (Profi, Arfak Mountains, July 10, 1875, Beccari). 

 Differs from the male in being of a lighter bluc-groy both above and 

 hcloiv ; only the lores, feathers at base of forehead and in front of the 

 eye, front half of eyelid, a spot at base of lower mandible and chin 

 black. Total length 9-5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 5-05, tail 4*1, 

 tarsus 1. (Mils. Civic. Genov.) 



The typical specimens lent to me by Dr. A. B. Meyer measure as 

 follows : — 



Total 



length. Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 



in. in. iu. in. in. 



n. cS- Arfak Mountains . . 9-2 075 5-3 4-3 1 



b. 2- „ „ ■■ 8-8 0-8 5-0 4-1 1 



The female is not fully adult, and has the inner secondaries and 

 the outer tail-feathers tipped with white ; the under tail-coverts are 

 rufous, barred with dark slaty grey, from which it may be inferred 

 that the young bird is entirely marked in this manner on the under 

 surface. 



Hah. North-western New Guinea. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Tjobonda, Arfak Mountains, M. L. Laglaize [0.]. 



Feb. 13, 1870. 



5. Edoliisoma ceramense. 



B. i. p. 338, no. 5102. 

 Volvocivora amboiuensis, Briiggem. ALhandl. Brcnien, v. p. 71. 



uidult male (North Coram, Wallace). General colour above light 

 slaty grey ; wing-coverts black, externally slaty grey, of a lighter 

 shade than the back, the greater series bordered with white on the 

 extreme edge of the feathers ; bastard plumes and primary-coverts 

 black, the latter with a very narrow edging of grey ; quills black, 

 externally margined with light grey, the secondaries with a marginal 

 edging of whitish ; two centre tail-feathers light slaty grey with a 

 subtcnninal black mark, the rest of the tail-feathers black, tipped 

 with ashy grey, more broadly towards the outermost ; nasal bristles, 

 feathers in front of the eye, cheeks, aiul ear-coverts black, the latter 

 washed with slaty grey ; under surface of body slaty grey, rather 

 darker on the throat, and inclining to blackish ou the chin : under 



