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(). Pitohui aruensis (Sharpe). * 



1, AVanambai, Am, 23. vi. 1806. Cayley AVelister coll., No. 195. " Iris red, bill 

 and feet black. 



1 c? ad., Sg. Bark, Kobroor, Am Islands, If), viii. 1900. "Iris reddish brown." 

 H. Kiihn coll., No. 2345. 



4 (?c?, more or less adult, Sg. Bark, Kobroor, Arn, August 19(l(t. H. Kiihn 

 coll., Nos. 2344, 2340, 235U, 2353. 



1 cJ ad. without any black on the breast and abdomen, Sg. Bark, Kobroor, Am, 

 24. viii. 1900. H. Kiihn coll.. No. 2448. 



2 ? ?, Sg. Bark, Kobroor, Am, August 1900. H. Kiihn coll., Nos. 2437, 2340. 



7. Pitohui meridionalis (Sharpe). 

 Recle-i meridionalis Sharpe, Iblx, 1888, p. 437 (Astrolabe Mountains). 



-i 6 <?, Chads Bay, British New Guinea, July 1899. " Iris dark red, feet slate, 

 bill black." A. S. Meek coll., Nos. 2658, 2650, 2607, 2672. 



Two of Meek's specimens have the upper tail-coverts pi^re black, the two 

 others mixed with rufous-cinnamon. The latter are probably less adult. 



1, Mt. Cameron, 5000 — 6000 ft., which agrees well with Meek's supposed 

 yonng<M' specimens, but has the wings and tail a little shorter : wing 126, tail 113. 

 Probably this is n female. 



Pitohui meridionalis is nearest to F. aruensis h arpe, but ditfers in its much 

 larger size (wing 130 — 132, tail 116 — 120, bill 20 — 30 mm.), lighter under-surface and 

 less deep, somewhat more yellowish rufous-cinnamon upperside, also the entire 

 absence of black mixture on the breast and abdomen. The scapulars are rufous- 

 cinnamon, not black. 



The exact affinities between P. aruensis, P. amdogus, P. dichroas, P. uropi/gialis, 

 P. decipiens, P. ruLiensis, P. dohertiji (see below), and P. meridionalis are not 

 sufficiently clear to us to warrant our grouping them into subspecies, and therefore 

 we prefer for the present to treat of them binomially. 



<S. Pitohui dichrous (Bp.). 



2 c?(?, 2 ? ?, Hatam, Arfak, 1879. Bmijn coll. 

 2 ? ?, Babinjai, Arfak, 1879. Bruijn coll. 



2 (?c?, 3 ? ?, 2 (?), Arfak. Bruijn coll. 1874, 1875, 1.888. (Specimens b, g, h, 

 m, n, s of Salvadori's list in Orn. Pap. ii. p. 195.) 



1 i, Mt. Maori, 30oo ft. (near Humboldt Bay), January 1809. J. BI. 

 Dumas coll. 



1, Mt. Maori (near Humboldt Bay). J. M. Dumas coll. 



2 (?(?, 1 ?, Sattelberg, German New Guinea, 7, lo. vi. 1809. E. Nyman coll. 



1 c?, 2 ? ?, Simbang, (ierman New Guinea, 6, 15, 19. viii. Ib99. "Iris gelb." 

 E. Nyman coll. 



1, "Astrolabe Mountains." Goldie coll. 



* Through the kiuciness of Guh. Hofrath Or. A. li. Meyer, wc have Ijeeii ahle to examine one of the 

 types of Uliffte^ analoffus A. B. Meyei'. Zeitschr. f, Orn. i. p. 284, and there is no doubt that it belongs lo 

 Ji. anioish. Our scries shows the complete intcrgradation between the supposed aiwhtfjus and antensits, 

 the former name being given to young liiiils and adult females, aruensis in the first instance to 

 adult males. 



