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white spots, the ear-coverts streaked with white ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body rich ochraceous buff, barred very distinctly with 

 black wavy cross lines ; thighs grey on their outer aspect ; under 

 tail-coverts deep ochraceous buff, as are afeo the under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries ; quills duU brown below, white along the inner webs. 

 Total length 9 inches, culmen ()-85, wing 4-4, tail 3-45, tarsus 0*85. 

 Hah. Island of Celebes. 



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1 G. Edoliisoma tenuirostre. 



Grauealus tenuirostris, Jard. Edinh. Journ. N. Sci. iv. p. 211 ; id. 8; 

 Selby, III. Orn. iii. pi. 114 (tig. mala) ; Gould, Syn.B. Ausir. partly. 



Ceblepyris jardLnii, i2«/)p. Mm. Senckcnb. iii. p. 30. 



Ceblepyris plumbea, »S'. Miill. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. 

 p. 189 (nee Waffler). 



Canipephaga tenuu-ostiis, Gra;/, Gen. B. i. p. 283. 



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

 Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 193 ; id. Cat. B. New Guinea, -p. 32; Sclater, 

 Pr. Linn. Soc. ii. p, 160 ; Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 435 ; JFall, P. Z. S. 

 1863, p. 485; Bosenb. J.f. O. 1864, p. 121 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, 

 p. 155 ; Finsch, Neu-Gumea, p. 171 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 338, 

 no. 5096. 



Campephaga jardinii, Gould, B. Ausir . folio, ii. pi. 60; Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 353 ; Reichenb. Vck/. Neukoll. pp. 232, 283 ; Gray, Cut. B. New 

 Guinea, p. 58 ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 171 ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 84 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 200 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 336, 

 no. 5072 ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. pt. 2, p. 181. 



Grauealus jardinii, Hartl. J.f. O. 1864, p. 441. 



Volvocivora plumbea, Salrad. Ucc. Born. p. 149. 



Edoliisoma plimibea, Salvad. Sf- D' Albert. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 24 ; 

 Salvad. op. cit. ix. p. 27. 



Edoliisoma miilleri, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 927. 



Adult male. General colour above dark slaty grey, a little more 

 dingy on the head ; scapulars and lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 

 median and gTcater series black, externally broadly margined with 

 lighter slaty grey, hoary on the extreme margin ; primary-coverts 

 and primaries black, vrith a very narrow edging of grey, the secon- 

 daries more broadly margined and inclining to white near the tips 

 of the outer webs of the inner secondaries ; two centre tail-feathers 

 dark ashy grey, with a subterminal spot of black, the remainder 

 black, glossed with green on the outer margins and narrowly tipped 

 with grey, increasing in extent towards the outermost, which are 

 broadly tipped ; lores, feathers in front of the eye, cheeks, and ear- 

 coverts black ; under surface of body dark slaty grey, darker and 

 more leaden grey on the throat ; under wing-coverts like the breast ; 

 quills blackish below, white at the base and for the greater part of 

 the inner web, fonning a conspicuous wing-lining ; " bill blackish 

 brown ; legs very dark greenish grey : iris dark brown " {Goiild). 

 Total length lO inches, culmen 0-95, wing 5-3, tail 4-2, tarsus 1-05, 



Adidt female. General colour above ashy brown, with a distinct 



