{ 506 ) 



River, collected by Emil Weiske, at elev.ations of abont 3500 feet, received a skin 

 from the Sattelberg in German New Gninea, toujether with its nest and fragments 

 of eggs ; the latter are pale green with pale rnfous spots, like small Blackbirds' 

 eggs and many other eggs of Turdi. 



153. Artamus leucorhynchos leucopygialis Gould. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 11-2 ; 1912. p. 292. 



1 " (J," 2 ? ; Upper Setekwa River, July 1910. (Nos. 4368, 4374, 445'!, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



These three specimens agree with the race from S.E. Papua and Australia. 

 Their wings measure only 122 and 125 mm. It seems doubtful if the birds from 

 N.W. New Gninea can be separated, but they are generally slightly larger and 

 have larger beaks. 



./154. Artamus maximus Mey. 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 112. 



t? ; Mt. Goliath, 10. ii. 1911. (No. 5350, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 v' 155. Pitohui aruensis ni|^ripectus Oort. 



Pitohni aruensis mgripectus van Oort, Nora Guinea i.x., Zool., livr. i. p. 93 (1909 — Sabang). 



c? ; Upper Setekwa River, 7. vii. 1910. (No. 4309, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 4 c? ad. ; 2 S ad.; :; 6 ? juv. ; Snow Mountains, 2000-3000 ft., Augnst, Sep- 

 tember, October 1910. (Nos. 4616, 4740, 4742, 4773, 4774, 4785, 4786, 4928, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



2 (J, 1 ? ; Upper Eilanden River, March 1911. (Nos. 5483, 5484, 6504, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



"Iris red, dark red, chocolate; bill and feet black, or bill black, feet dark 

 slaty blue." 



The differences of this new form are well described by Dr. van Oort ; but, 

 according to the sex-marks on onr labels, the adult males only have the breast and 

 part of abdomen pure black, while the adult females have the throat and jngulum 

 black, the rest of the underside cinnamon-rufous. The lower ramp and upper tail- 

 coverts in all our specimens are black, more or less mixed with rufous-chestnut. In 

 a young female (No. 4740) the crown is brown with black streaks, the throat 

 cinnamon, towards the breast with an admixture of black. The tail, which is pure 

 black iu adult males and females, is margined with brown. In the j'oung male in 

 first plumage (No. 4774) the crown is dull cinnamon-brown, throat dull cinnamon- 

 brown as far as the chest, rump and upper tail-coverts dark chestnut, the whole tail 

 rufous-brown. Wings of the adult males 123-128, of the females 121-126. mm. 



156. Pitohui ferrugineus ferrugineus (Bp.). 



Rectus ferrngineus Bonaparte, Compt. Hend. Paris, x.xxi. p. 6G3 (1850— Ex S. Miiller MS. in Mus. 

 Leiden. Terra typica : Lobo, Nova Guinea) ; van Oort, Norn Guinea ix., Zool., livr. i, 

 p. 94. 



4 J ? ; Upper Setekwa River, July 1910. (Nos. 4243, 4277, 4349,4350, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



<J ¥ ; Snow Mountains, 2000 ft., August 1910. (Nos. 4613, 4644, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



