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more or loss distinct shade of grey ; primary-coverts dark brown, 

 with obsolete grey edgings ; quills dark brown, with a narrow 

 greyish margin to the primaries, the secondaries more broadly edged 

 with white ; tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with white, more 

 broadly on the outer feathers, the centre feathers ashy grey, black 

 at the ends, which are slightly tipped with white ; feathers in front 

 of tho eye black, surmounted by loral plumes tipped with white ; 

 ear-coverts black, distinctly and broadly streaked with white, 

 broadening out towards tho tips of the feathers ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body white, broadly barred across with ashy black, the 

 chin and under tail-coverts uniform buffy white without bars ; under 

 wing-coverts pale ochraceous buff; quills dark ashy brown, pale 

 ochraceous buff for the greater part of the inner webs. Total length 

 8-0 inches, culmeu OS, wing 4-85, tail 3-8, tarsus 0'9. (Mus. Dresden.) 



Hah. Sangi Islands, north of Celebes. 

 a, 5 ad. sk. Sangi Islands {A, 13. Meyer'). Dresden Museum. 



7. Edoliisoma timoriensis. (Plate I. fig. I.) 

 Campephaga plumbea, Wallace, P. Z, S. 1863, p. 485 (tiec 311111.), 



Adult male. Above light blue-grey, paler on the rump and upper 

 taU-coverts, the lesser wing-coverts like the back; median scries 

 blue-grey, blackish at base of inner web ; greater series black, ex- 

 ternally blue-grey, with a narrow edging of white ; bastard plumes 

 and primary-coverts black, with a vcrj- narrow margin of grey ; 

 quills black, the primaries margined narrowly with hoary grey, the 

 secondaries broadly grey, on the outer web narrowly margined with 

 white ; two centre tail-feathers ashy grey, with a subterminal spot 

 of black ; remainder of tail-feathers black, tipped with ashy grey, 

 gradually increasing in extent towards the outermost, which is grey 

 along the outer web ; feathers in front of the eye dusky grey ; 

 the sides of the head slightly darker grey ; under surface of body 

 bluish grey, a little duller on the throat ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries very pale hoary grey, the quills blackish below, white 

 along the inner webs. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 

 4-95, tail 4-2, tarsus 0-9. 



Adidt female. Different from tho male. General colour above 

 ashy grey, bluer on the head, the rump and upper tail-coverts tinged 

 with ochraceous ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, median and 

 greater series dark brown, broadly edged with ochraceous buff; bas- 

 tard feathers and primary-coverts dark brown, narrowly edged with 

 whity brown ; quiUs dark brown, margined with ochraceous buff, 

 much more broadly on the secondaries ; two centre tail-feathers pale 

 ochraceous brown, the rest of the taU-feathers dark brown, tipped 

 with ochraceous buff, broader on the outside tail-feathers ; lores 

 forming a narrow line of hoary white ; round the eye a ring of 

 whitish feathers ; in front of the c^'e a spot of dusky black ; ear- 

 coverts and sides of face ashy grey, with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body dull white, crossed with wavy lines of 

 dusky brown, tho under tail-coverts ochi'aceous buff; under wing- 



