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XXVI. LANIIDAE. 

 115. Pachycephala rufipennis Gray. 



Pachyrrphah rufipnwis Gray, P. Z. .^. 18.08. pp. 178. 102 (Key Islands). 



The type is a yonng bird with chestnnt-rufons edges to the secondaries. In the 

 adnlt liird the remiges are deep brown, margined with olive-brown. 



Knhn sent a series from Toeal on Little Key and from Add, north of Great 

 Key. Uoherty obtained a female at Elat on Great Key. (Kiihn coll., Nos. a, 389, 

 454, 490, 2775, 2777, 2778.) 



Pach'jcephala rufipennis is evidently restricted to the Key Isiantls. 



110. Pachycephala phaionotus (Bp.). 



Myhlestesphalomtus Bonaparte (ex MiiU. MS. \n Mus. Lugd.), Con^p. Av. i. p. 358(1850 : Banda). 

 The diagnosis of Bonaparte is very poor, and even incorrect. Therefore his 

 name shonld not be adopted, except for the one reason, that the type is m the 

 Leyden Mnsenm, showing to which species the diagnosis refers. 



The distribution of this species is very pecnliar, as it occnrs on banda, on 

 Tifore Dammar in the Nortliern Moluccas, Ternate, Mareh, Motir in the Moluccas, on 

 Mysol' Salwattv and Waigin, and reoccurs on Mafor in the Geelvink Bay, all over 

 the Sonth-East Islands, and on little outlying islands of the Aru group. It 

 evidently shares with a few other land-birds the peculiarity to inhabit very small 

 oceanic islands only, not the neighbouring larger main islands. It has not yet been 

 found on the larger Moluccas (Halmaliera, Batjan, Obi, Burn, Ceram), nor anywhere 

 on New Guinea, nor on the larger islands of the Key and Aru groups (Caloems 

 nicobarica inhabits almost only small islands near larger ones uninhabited by this 

 niffeon- Tanmwtthiis meqalorh/nchus shuns the main island of Celebes, wliUe 

 occnrrin- on many small islets close to its coasts. The forms of AsHr torquatus 

 avoid Celebes, though being found on islands close to it. Attention to similar cases 

 will be called in future.) 



Mr. Kiihn sent the following specimens of P. phaionotus :— 

 A series from Banda. _ 



3 (?(?, Maar Island, near Ceram-lant, December 1899. (Nos. a, p., 1/23.) 

 (? c?, 3 ? ¥ , from Kilsoeiu and Komeer Islands, in the Koer group. (Nos. 12„8, 

 1234, 1237, 1241, 1288, 1289, 1403, 1410, 1428.) 



3 ? ? , Taam Island, July 1899. (Nos. 1339, 1340, 1347.) 

 (? ? , Manggoer Island, October 1809. (Nos. 1422, 1424.) 



c?, iloemadan Island, Little Key group, 9. iv. 1898. (No. 673.) 

 (?, Godan Island, Little Key group, 17. v. 1898. (No. 793.) 



4 from Fnlo Babi, Aru Islands. 



117. Pachycepliala kuehni Hart. 



Purhr,phaU kuehni Hartert, Bull. Jl. 0. C. viii, p. xiv (November 1898 : Little Key Island). 



This spe.ues seems to be restricted in its habitat to the Key Islands. _ It 

 differs from its nearest ally, /'. cinerascens, of the Northern Moluccas, ,n being 

 more brownish above, but most strikingly in the colour of the under surface wine 

 is oehraceons buff, tinged with greyish brown on the chest a.id flanks ; vvuiie 



