54 CAMPOPnAOTDJE. 



14. Edoliisoma remotum. 



Edoliosoma, sp. inc., 2 > Sdater, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 101. 



Edoliosoma schisticeps, Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Sue. N. S. W. ii. p. 222 



{nee Gray). 

 Edoliisoma remotum, Sharpe, Milth. k. zool. Mtis. Dresden, Heft iii. 



Adidt male. Like the male of E. incertum. Total length 9-5 

 inches, culmen 095, wing 4"95, tail 4"05, tarsus 0*95. (Mus. Berol.) 



Adult female. Like the female of E. incertum, but with the head 

 ashy brown, the rump and upper tail-coverts rufous-buff, the centre 

 tail-feathers rufous-brown. (J/hs. Berol.) 



Hab. New Hanover ; New Ireland ; Duke of York Island. 



15. Edoliisoma morio. 



Ceblepvris morio, S. Midler, Ver. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. 



p. 189. 

 Campephaga morio. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 353 ; 



Hard. J. f. O. 1865, p. 155; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 172; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 338, no. 5097. 

 Campephaga melanolffima, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 338, no. 5099 



{descr. ntdld). 

 Volvocivora morio, Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 69, pi. viii. fig. 1 ; Briig- 



gem. Abhandl. Bremen, v. p. 71. 

 Edoliisoma morio, Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 657. 



Adidt male. General colour above dark bluish slate-colour, darker 

 on the head, the least wing-coverts like the back ; greater and me- 

 dian series ashy grey, hoary grey on the extreme margin, and black 

 on the inner webs ; bastard plumes black ; primary-coverts black, 

 narrowlj- edged with grey ; quills black, the primaries narrowly, the 

 secondaries broadly edged with bluish grej% hoary on the margins 

 and resembling the greater coverts ; two centre tail-feathers slaty 

 grey, black before the tips ; remainder of tail-feathers black, tipped 

 with ashy grey, broader on the outer feathers ; nasal plumes, fea- 

 thers in front of and round the eye, sides of face, sides of neck, throat, 

 and fore neck black, gradually shading off into bluish slate-colour 

 on the rest of the under surface ; under wing-coverts and axUlaries 

 dark bluish slate-colour ; quills dusky ash-colour below, hoary 

 white along the inner webs. Total length 10 inches, culmen 0-8, 

 A\-ing 4-45, tail 3-6, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult femcde. Different from the male. Lighter grey above, the 

 median and greater coverts grey with hoary margins, the inner webs 

 blackish ; bastard plumes and primary-coverts black ; qiiiUs black, 

 externally edged with bluish grey, the secondaries more broadly 

 margined with grey, hoary on the edges, the inner secondaries almost 

 entirely grey, blackish on the inner webs ; two centre tail-feathers 

 bluish grey, with a subterminal black spot ; the rest of the tail- 

 feathers black, tipped with ashy grey, the tips broader towards the 

 outermost, which are tipped with pale ochraccous buff; lores hoary 

 white ; round the eye a ring of buffy white feathers ; in front of the 

 eye a blackish spot ; sides of face grey, mottled below the eye with 



