ON THE GENUS PITOIIUI. 71 



NOTE VIL 



ON A NEW SUBSPECIES OF THE GENUS 



PITOHUI LESSON, WITH AN ENUMERATION OF 



THE SPECIES OF THIS GENUS 



IN THE COLLECTION OF THE LEYDEN MUSEUM 



Dr. E. D. VAN OORT. 



It has already been observed by Salvador! '), that a 

 specimen of Pitohui cerviniveiitris (Gray) from Waigeoe was 

 brighter in colour on the undersurface than another from 

 Batanta. The tvro specimens from the last-named locality 

 in our collection, a male and a female, are also different 

 from eleven specimens from Waigeoe and Ghemien (Gammen), 

 an island south of the first. 



Though Rothschild and Hartert ^) state, that in the British 

 Museum the Batanta-specimens agree with those from 

 Waigeoe (if correctly labelled), I find the differences in 

 our specimens so striking, that I propose to separate the 

 specimens from Batanta under the name of 



Pitohui cerviniventris pallidus, subsp. nov. 



The uppersurface is somewhat paler than in the true 

 cervi7iiventris from Waigeoe, the rumpfeathers and upper 

 tailcoverts are not washed with brown. The undersurface 

 is much paler, without any rufous tinge. The birds are 

 also somewhat larger than those from Waigeoe and Ghemien. 

 The measurements are: 



1) Salvadori, Oin. Pap. II, 1881, p. 201. 



2) RoUischild and Uartcit, Nov. Zool. X, 1903, p. 96. 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseiim, "V^ol. XXIX. 



