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the uudersurface however is much paler, almost cream- 

 coloured. I am sure that more material from difïerent parts 

 of the West, part of New Guinea will show, that there are ou 

 the mainland at least three forms of this species : the light- 

 greyheaded typical kirhocephalus of Lesson (typical locality 

 Doreh), the slate-colourheaded form from the part south 

 of the MacCluer Golf which I provisionally name ohscurus 

 (typical locality Skroe) and the ashyheaded form with 

 yellow-whitish uudersurface (from the vicinity of the Lobo 

 Bay), provisionally named stramineipectus. 



Pitohui kirhocephalus dohertyi Rothsch. et Hart. 



Pitohui dohertyi, Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool. 

 X, 1903, p. 95. 



We possess of this form two adult specimens collected 

 by Laglaize in January 1876 on the island of Roon and one 

 specimen collected by the same in January 1876 ou the 

 island of Amberpoon in the Geelvink Bay. A fourth specimen 

 has no indication of locality. I consider this form to be 

 a subspecies of kirhocephalus. It is much like the above 

 named obscurus, but larger and with a black head, throat 

 and foreneck. 



Pitohui uropygialis (Gray). 



Rectes uropygialis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 430. 

 Rhectes uropygicdis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. Ill, 1877, p. 285. 

 » » Salvadori, Orn.Pap. II, 1881,p. 193. 



Thirteen specimens, males and females, from Salawatti 

 (Kal wal and Sailolo) collected by Dr. Bernstein and Hoedt, and 

 eleven specimens from Misool (Waigama) collected by Hoedt. 



I believe that uropygialis does not occur in New Guinea 

 and that the so-called tibialis of Sharpe (Cat. B. Br. M. 

 Ill, 1877, p. 285) is nothing but a wrongly labelled arj<e7jsts. 



Pitohui aruensis Sharpe. 



Rhectes aruensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. Ill, 1877, p. 285. 

 Salvadori, Oru. Pap. II, 1881, p. 194. 



JNotes from the Leyden IVIuseum, Vol. XXI>C. 



