646 PODARGID.E. 



;i iEGOTHELES. 



Type, 

 ^gotheles, Vit/. Sr Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 



p. 194 (1825) JE. nov£e-hollandise. 



Oegotheles, Less. Tmite d'Orn. p. 263 (1831)) . M. novpe-liollandise. 



There are few groups of birds about which our knowledge is less 

 complete than the genus ^gothdes. We do not know whether 

 one species possesses a grej-ish and a rufous phase, and we do not 

 know the changes in plumage which are produced by season and 

 age. Besides this the collections of most of the Museums are rather 

 poor in specimens from New Guinea, and the genus is poorly repre- 

 sented in the British Museum except as regards the Australian 

 species. 1 am therefore obliged to recognize almost all the species 

 that have been described from New Guinea, and even to describe 

 two specimens under a new name ; but I think it is quite possible 

 that several of these forms may not stand as distinct species when 

 our knowledge of this genus has increased. 



Key to the Species *. 



<i. Bright cinnamon-rufous ; wing much more 



than 6 inches crinifrons, p. 646. 



h. Chestnut-rufous above. 



a'. Larger; wing about 6 inches insujnh, p. 647. 



b'. Smaller ; wing less than 5 inches alhertisi, p. 648. 



c. Dusky or brown above, more or less barred or 

 vermiculated with whitish. 

 c' . With more or less distinct pale nuchal collar. 



a". Wing more than 6 inches savesi, p. 652. 



b". Wing less than 6 inches. 



a'". Tail with 12 or more bars; markings 



on breast and upper parts finer .... novcs-kul/andice,i).6bl. 

 b'". Tail with 10 or less bars ; pale mark- 

 ings above and dusky markings on 

 breast broader and less numerous . . bennetti, p. 650. 

 d'. Without nuchal collar. 



Larger lorice, p. 650. 



Smaller wallacei, p. 650. 



1. .ffigotheles crinifrons. 



Batrachostomus crinifrons, Bp. Qmsp. i. p. 57 (1850, ex Temm. MS. ; 



Halmahera); Cab. ^ Heint-, 3Ius. Hehi. in. p. 123(1860); Scl. 



P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 212; Graij, Hand-l. i. p. 54 (1869). 

 Podargus crinifrons, Schhy. J.f. O. 1856, p. 460; id. Ned. Tijdschr. 



Dierk. iii. p. 340 (1866). 

 Batrachostomus psilopterus, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 345 (Batchian) ; 



id. Hand-l. i. p. 54 (1869) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 212. 



* jE. salvadorii is larger than M. albcrtisi and less rufous. I have not seen 

 ^. dubius and JS. affinis, and could not place them in the Key satisfactorily. 

 Cf. descriptions. 



