5. EDOLIISOMA. 63 



Hah. Islands of Miosnoum and Jobi, in the Bay of Goelvink, N.W. 

 New Guinea. 



13. Edoliisoma meyeri. 



Campephaga plumbea, Mvycr, Sitz. Lsix. p. .368. 

 Edoliisoma, sp., Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. yW. p. 928. 

 Edolusoraa meyeri, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 327. 



Adult male (Kordo, Misori, May 22, 1875, Beccari). General 

 colour above dark blue-grey, the least wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median series blue-grey, with black inner webs ; greater coverts 

 black, broadly edged with grey on the outer webs ; bastard wing, 

 primary-coverts, and primaries black, the latter narrowly margined 

 with grey, the secondaries broadly edged with blue-grey ; two centre 

 tail-feathers ashy grey, black at the tips ; remainder of tail-feathers 

 black, the outer ones tipped with ashy grey ; feathers at base of 

 upper mandible, lores, feathers in front "of and below the eye black; 

 eyelid blue-grey : ear-coverts black ; under surface of body dark 

 grey, the throat blackish, washed with blue-grej-, the blackish shade 

 fading off gradually on the chest ; under wing-coverts dark slaty 

 grey, the quills dark ashy brown below, white along the inner webs. 

 Total length 9-4 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-7, tail 3-9, tarsus 0-95. 

 (Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Adult femcde (Kordo, Misori, May 18, 1875, Beccari). General 

 colour above nifous-brown, shaded with ashy olive on the back, the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts edged with rufous-buff; least wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median series of coverts fawn-colour, with 

 concealed black on the inner web ; greater coverts blackish on the 

 inner webs, fawn-colour on the outer ; bastard wing and primary- 

 coverts black, the latter with a narrow obsolete margin of rufous ; 

 quills black, the primaries narrowly, the secondaries broadly ed"-ed 

 with fawn-colour ; tail-feathers olive-brown, blackish brown near 

 the tips, the outer ones nearly entirely dark brown, tipped with light 

 fawn-colour, increasing in extent on "the outermost feathers ; crown 

 of head and nape dark slaty grey, of which a shade spreads on to the 

 upper mantle; feathers at base of upper mandible and a narrow 

 loral streak bufly white ; plumes round the eye and a narrow line 

 above the eye light fawn-buff; in front of the eye a blackish-grey 

 spot ; hinder margin of eyelid and a streak above the upper margin 

 of the ear-coverts dark slaty grey ; sides of face and ear-coveris 

 mottled with buffy whitish spots, the latter streaked with buffy 

 white ; cheeks and under surface of body light fawn-colour, including 

 the under wing-coverts and axiUaries as well as the inner lining of 

 the quills. Total length 9-2 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-05, "tail 

 4-0, tarsus 0-95. (Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Hah. Islands of Misori and Mafoor, in the Bay of Geelvink, North- 

 westeri] Xew Guinea. 



n,b. c? $ ad. sk. Kordo, Misori Island, April 1873 Dresden Museum 



(Dr. A. B. Meifer). 

 c. 5 ad. sk. Mafoor Island, March 1873 (Dr. Dresden Museum 



A. B. Meyer). 



