32 CLYTOMYIAS INSIGNIS. 



subalaribus cervinis: remigibus infra fuscis intus rufescente 

 margiuatis. Long. tot 5.3 poll., culmen 0.6, alce 2.15, 

 caudae 2.7 , tarsi 0.9. 



Hah. Tjobonda, in montibus arfakianis. 



Leyden Museum, Nov. 6, 1878. R. B. S. 



P. S. On communicating the account of this remarkable spe- 

 cies to my friend Count Salvadori, he suggested that it 

 might prove to be the female of Todopsis grayi^ Wall., a 

 bird which does not agree with Todopsis in form of bill , 

 and which should, I consider, be placed in Dr. Oustalet's 

 genus Chenorhamphus (Bull. Assoc. Scient. de France, 

 n''. 533. Janvier, 1878). This idea had never struck me 

 in describing the bird , and I therefore asked Dr. Ousta- 

 let, who was on the point of leaving England for Leyden, 

 to re-examine the type of Clytomyias and to compare it 

 with Chenorhamplius grayi. This he was kind enougb to 

 do, and he found that the bill of the latter Avas a great 

 deal broader than that of C. insuinis. In Ch. grayi too 

 the wing is about equal to the tail in length , as in the 

 genus Todopsis , but in Clytomyias the tail is much longer 

 than the wing, shewing that the affinities of the genus 

 lie nearer to Malnrus. It is quite possible that the new 

 species may have a more brilliantly coloured male , but 

 the latter, when identified, will not be Chenorhamphus 

 grayi. 



Notes Irom the Leyden ]Mnseiira. 



