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lities and dates and have both sexes represented. On the 

 other hand these birds differ as well from the North- 

 Bornean as from the Sumatran form and it is not impos- 

 sible that later on terms will be found upon which to 

 separate the birds into two or even more species. 



2. Aimropsis cinereiceps. 



Drymocataphns cinereiceps Twfeild. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 617. 

 Anuropsis cinereiceps Sharpe, Cat. B. VIT, p. 598; Bias, Ornis 1888 , 

 p. 14; Whitehead, Ibis 1890, p. 50. 



Hab. Island of Palawan. 



Two specimens in the Leyden Museum , both collected 

 by Dr. Platen. 



Genus Cmtei^oscelis. 



Type: Crateroscelis miirina (Teinm.) Sharpe, Cat. B. VII, p. 590 

 (1883). 



This genus stands very near Anuropsis, with which it 

 agrees in the general appearance, the linear nasal aper- 

 tures , the short tail and long tarsi , but it differs from it 

 in having the bill more depressed and muscicapine and 

 being of a smaller size. Tail somewhat more than half the 

 length of the wing and but little longer than the tar- 

 sus. — Two species. 



Range. New Guinea, Waigiou, Salawati, Mysol and 

 Aru Islands. ♦ 



Key to the species. 



a. Breast and flanks tawny buff murina. 



b. Breast light brown, flanks grayish brown . . . nionaclM. 



1. Crateroscelis murina. 



Myiothera murina Temm. MS. in Miis. Lugd. (nee Blyth, Ibis 



1865, p. 47). 

 Turdirostris murina Bp. Consp. I, p. 158 (1850); Finsch, Neu-Guinea, 



p. 166 (1865). 

 Sericornis fulvipectoris Ramsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. IV, p. 5 (1879). 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, "Vol. XVII. 



