52 CAHFOFHAGID^. 



11, Edoliisoma aruense. 



Edoliisoma aruense, Sharpe, 3Iitth. k. zool. Miis. Dresd. Heft iii. 



Adult male (Lutor, Aru Islands, June 23, 1876, Beccari ; type 

 of species). Similar to the male of E. incertuni, Meyer (ox Mios- 

 noum), but distinguished by whitish edgings to the inner webs of 

 the secondaries, and by being rather lighter bluer grey. Total length 

 8-8 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-55, tail 3-0, tarsus 0"95. (Mus. Civic. 

 Genov.) 



Adult female (Lutor, June 24, 1873, Beccari). Entirely unliko 

 the female of E. iticertvm, and resembling that of E. temcirostre, but 

 dark brown on the back without any grey shade, the latter being 

 confined to the crown, where it is not very distinct ; wing-coverts 

 and quills edged with chestnut ; eyebrow and sides of neck chestnut, 

 as also the light streaks on the ear-coverts ; under surface of body 

 chestnut or very deep fawn-colour, barred across with arrow-shaped 

 lines of dusky blackish everywhere, except on the throat, vent, and 

 under tail-coverts, which are uniform. Total length 8*7, wing 4"45, 

 tail 3-5, tarsus 0*95. {ATus. Civic. Genov,') 



Hah. Aru Islands, 



12, Edoliisoma incerttun, 



Campephaga incerta, Meyer, 8itz. k. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 387. 

 Edoliisoma incertum, Salvad. Ann. Mits. Cine. Genov. vii. p. 928. 



Adult male (Miosnoum, May 1, 1875, Beccari). Above slaty 

 blue, including the wing-coverts, the median and greater series slaty 

 blue with black bases ; bastard wing and primary-coverts entirely 

 black ; quills black, the primaries narrowly, the secondaries more 

 broadly edged with grey ; two centre tail-feathers ashy grey, with a 

 large spot of black near the tip ; remainder of the taU-feathcrs black, 

 tipped with ashy grey, more broadly on the outermost, which is grey 

 also along the outer web ; feathers at base of bill, lores, feathers in 

 front of the eye and under the fore part of the latter black ; base of 

 lower mandible blackish, and the ear-coverts with a blackish shade; 

 under surface of body slaty blue, the chin blackish : under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries lighter ashy grey ; quills dusky ash-colour 

 below, greyish white along the inner web. Total length 8'4 inches, 

 culmen 0-9, wing 4-45, tail 3*4, tarsus 0-95, {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Adult female (Ansus, Jobi, April 1873, Dr. A. B. Meyer ; type 

 of species). Very like the male, but having the two centre tail-fea- 

 thers entirely ashy grey without any subterminal black spot. Total 

 length 8-7 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-5, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-95. {Mus. 

 Dresden.) 



The type specimen above described agrees also with a female from 

 Ansus {Bruijn) in the Genoa Museum ; like it, the centre tail- 

 feathers are uniform, with no subterminal black spot. The Mios- 

 noum bird, which I cannot believe to be distinct, is rather brighter 

 blue-grey and has a good-sized black spot at the tip of the central 

 tail-feathers. This may be the character of the male bird. 



