72 ON THE ÜENUS PITOHUl. ' 



wiug tail tarso-met. cultueu. 



cT 100 94 32 24'"m., 



9 100 98 36 25 » , 



while birds from the last-named localities measure 



wing tail tarso-met. culmen. 



ScfcT, 8 99 92—98 89—97 30—35 22- 25™^.. 

 The two birds are collected by von Rosenberg in June 1869. 



Rothschild and Hartert ^) are quite right in replacing 

 the generic name Rectes of Reichenbach (1850) by Pitohui 

 of Lesson (1831). The last one has priority of date; the 

 rejecting by Sharpe ^) and others as being a barbarous word, 

 is not to justify, as there are used in ornithology so many 

 names, of which we do not know the etymology or which 

 are barbarous words with a latin ending. 



In the following lines I give a list of the species of 

 Pitohui in our collection, in which genus I include the 

 genera Pseudorhectes and Melanorhectes of Sharpe. 



Pitohui kirhocephalus Less. 



Vanga kirhocephalus, Lesson, Voyage Coquille, Zoölogie, 

 T, 1826, p. 633; Lanius kirhocephalus, Atlas, pi. XI. 



Rhectes cirrhocephalus, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, 

 p. 198. 



Sixteen specimens, adult males and females, from West. 

 New Guinea (Doreh, Andai, Skroe and Lobo Bay) collected 

 by S. Muller, von Rosenberg, Laglaize and Schadler. The 

 two skins from Skroe have the head much darker grey 

 than the others ; tail and wings are in these two specimens 

 blackish brown, in the male the tail is even black. Specimens 

 from the Lobo Bay agree with those from Doreh and Andai, 



1) Kothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool. X, 1903, p. 93. 



2) Sharpe, Handlist, IV, 1903, p. 267, note. 



Notes I'rora the Leyclen IMusewm, Vol. XXIX. 



