33. DUPETOE. 251 



Ardeirallus nesophilus, Sharps, Bull. B. 0. Club, iii. no. xvi. p. xxxii 



(1894). 

 Xanthocnus nesopliilus, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. Club, iii. no. xvii. 



p. xxxvii (1894). 

 Dupetor nesophilus, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. Cluh, \. no. xxxi. p. xiii 



(1895). 



Adult. Black like D. melas, with black cheeks and sides of face 

 like that species and D. gouldi ; under surface also blackish as in 

 D. melas, but slightly washed with slaty grey, the long feathers of 

 the fore-neck edged with white, and the throat-markings slightly 

 varied here and there with pale brown. Total length about 22 

 inches, culmen 3'1, wing 8"2, tail 3'2, tarsus 2*6, middle toe and 

 claw 2-4. 



Hah. New Britain and Duke of York Island. 



a. <S ad. sk. Duke of York Island {Klein- Dr. R. B. Sharpe 



Schmidt). [-P-]- 



b. Ad. sk. Duke of York Island {G. Brow)i). Tweeddale CoU. 



(Type of species.) 



4. Dupetor melas. (Plate III. fig. 2.) 



Ardetta flavicollis {nee Lath.), Wallace, P. Z. S. 186.3, p. So (Bouru) ; 

 Blasius ^- Nerkh. Verh. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1882, p. 431 (Amboina). 



Ardea (Ardetta) flavicollis {nee Lath), Gray, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 364 

 (Batchian). 



Ardetta melaena, Salvad. Atti P. Acad. Sci. Torino, xiii. p. 1187 

 (1878: tSanghir ; Halmahtira). 



Ardeiralla melfena, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. xviii. p. 335 (1882). 



Ardeiralla flavicollis {nee Lath.), Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. viii. 

 p. 795 (1875 : Halmahera) ; Meyer, Sitz. Abhandl. ges. Isis, Dres- 

 den, 1884, Abth. i. p. 57 (Siao). 



Xanthocnus melas, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. Club, iii. no. xvii. p. xxxvii 

 (1894). 



Dupetor melas, Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. Club, y. no. xxxi. p. xiii (1895). 



Adult male. Similar in form to D. flavicollis, but very much 

 blacker on the upper surface ; the under surface of the body almost 

 entirely black, with narrow whitish margins to the feathers of the 

 fore-neck, and a scarcely perceptible shade of rufous brown on some 

 of the feathers of the lower throat ; cheeks and sides of face 

 entirely black. Total length 21 inches, culmeu 3-3, wing 8'5, tail 

 2"9, tarsus 2-5, middle toe and claw '2-ob. 



Young. Dark like the young of D. gouldi, and having blackish 

 cheeks, and the mottlings of the throat dull brown, not rufous as in 

 D. flavicollis. 



Uah. Molucca Islands. 



a, b. S ad. et Batchian. Wallace CoU. 



juv. sk. 



c. Juv. sk. Morotai. Wallace Coll, 



d. cJ juv. sk. Bouru. Wallace Coll. 



