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CAMPOrnAGIDJE. 



shade of ashj- grey on the head, the feathers of the rump and upper 

 tail-coveats -with fulvesccnt edges ; wing-coverts rather bro'\\Tier than 

 the back, the greater series edged with light rufous ; primary-coverts 

 uniform brown ; quills brown, with narrow fulvoiis margins, broader 

 on the secondaries, some of which are edged with pale rufous ; centre 

 tail-feathers olive-brown, washed with ashy ; the remainder dark 

 brown, broadly tipped with fawn-buff, increasing in extent towards 

 the outer ones, the outermost being fawn-buff along the whole of the 

 outer web ; lores and feathers in front of the eye hoary grey ; in 

 front of and behind the eye a dusky blackish spot ; a streak over 

 the eye and eyelid pale creamy buff; car-coverts and sides of face 

 dusky blackish, mottled with white spots ; cheeks and throat creamy 

 buff, as also the under surface of body, which is varied with narrow, 

 waved, arrow-head lines of blackish ; under tail-covcrts, as avcU as 

 under wing-covcrts and axillaries, fawn-buff ; quills dusky brown 

 below, pale rufous along the inner webs. Total length 9-5 inches, 

 culraen 0'9, wing 4*95, tail 4*2, tarsus 0-95. 



Young. Resembling the old female, but with white tips to the 

 inner secondaries and mauj- of the feathers of the upper surface ; 

 wing-coverts and quills edged with deeper rufous, as also the eye- 

 brow and eyelid ; below deeper buff, and the throat ban-ed as well 

 as the rest of the under surface ; under tail-coverts striped with 

 dusky. 



Hab. N.E. Australia and Queensland, Eichmond and Clarence 

 river districts, N. S. Wales {Ramsay) ; Aru Islands ; New Guinea, 



17. Edoliisoma nesiotis. 



Campephaga nesiotis, HartL 4- Finsch, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 98 ; Fitisch, 

 Journ. 3Ius. Godcffr. Heft xii. p. 28, note. 



Immature (type of species). Upper surface of body rufous-brown, 

 with lighter edges of rufous-buff to some of the feathers ; rump- 

 feathers dark brown, with conspicuous rufous edges, the upper tail- 

 coverts entirely rufous ; scapulars like the back ; lesser wing-coverts 

 brown, edged with rufous ; rest of the wing-coverts and quiUs dark 

 brown, broadly edged with rufous, inclining to fulvous at the tips of 

 the secondaries ; tail-feathers rufous-brown , tipped with pale rufous, 

 the outer feathers darker brown, internally lighter, and externally 

 tipped with rufous-buff, more broadly on the outermost, which has 

 also a line of pale rufous running along the shaft ; crown of head 

 dark brown, slightly shaded with ashy on the forehead ; lores and a 

 distinct eyebrow as well as the sides of the neck deep rufous ; in 

 front of the eye a black spot ; sides of face a little paler rufous, the 

 upper edge of the ear-coverts dusky ; luider surface of body rufous, 

 the throat and chest uniform, only the sides of the breast with a few 

 wavj' cross lines of blackish; under wang-coverts deep rufous, as 



