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223. Ailuroedus buccoides buccoides (Temm). 



Kitta buccoides Temminck, PI. Col. 575 (1835 — Lobo Bay). 



Ailnroedus buccoidex v. Oort, Xova Guinea ix., Zool. i. p. 99 (190il — Noord River, Sabing, 

 Alkmaar). 



S ; Uiiper Setekwa River, 4. vii. 1910 (No. 4272, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



2 <? ; Suow Monntains, 2000 ft., 3. ix. 1910, 9. x. 1910. (Nos. 4705, 4807, 

 A. S. Meek Coll.) 



? ; Upper Eilanden Biver, 3. iii. 1911. (No. 5470, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris red ; bill aud feet pale bine." 



It has remained for Dr. van Oort, with the aid of Teraininck's type and 

 the specimens collected by Dr. H. A. Lorentz, to discover that the "(Jat-Birds " 

 hitherto identified as the " Kitta buccoides " of Temminck are not that form. The 

 true Ai. buccoides buccoides is evidently confined to the coasts and hinterland of 

 Soathern Dutch New Guinea ; it differs from the birds of North-west New Guinea 

 and adjacent islands by its much smaller beak, deeper brownish butf underside, and 

 somewhat smaller black spots, though the latter are not nearly so small as in Ai. 

 buccoides stonii, and e.xtend over the sides of abdomen and flanks ; the crown of the 

 head is apparently never so deep l)rown as in adult .ftonii. 



The result of this discovery of Dr. van Oort's, which is strikingly confirmed by 

 our specimens, is, that Ai. buccoides auctornm from N.W. Guinea and adjacent 

 islands is without a name. We propose to call it 



Ailuroedus buccoides oorti 



after Dr. van Oort of Leiden. 



Type: " ? "' ; Waigiu, 24. xii. 1902, John Waterstradt Coll., in the Tring 

 Museum. 



In Pi/gmies and Papuam, p. 273, Mr. Ogilvie-Grant named specimens collected 

 by the Goodfellow expedition " Ailuroedus stoiiei" ; this was evidently caused by the 

 dark underside of the specimens as compared with our Ai. b. oorti. 



■J 224. Oriolus striatus Quoy & Gaim. 



OrioluH sti-ialus Quoy et Gaimard, \'oi/. .ixirolabr i. p. 191, pi. ix. fig. 2 (18.30— Dorey, New Guinea) ; 

 cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 111. 



3 c? ; Upper Setekwa River, August, September, November 191o. (Nos. 4977, 

 4546, 4481, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



<S : Upper Eilanden River, 4. iii. 191 1. (No. 5478, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



\l 225. Melanopyrrhus anais orientalis (!>cbk'g.). 



Noi: Zool. 1903. p. 113 ; v. Oort, Novi, Guinea i.x. Zool. livr. i. p. 100. 



1 (?, 3 ? ad., 1 ? jnv. ; Setekwa River, Junt' aud Novomln'r 191 o. (Nos. 

 42o:{, 4204, 4205, 4214, 4995, A. S. Meek (Joll.) 



1 6 ad. : Upper Setekwa River, 14. xi. 1910. (No. 4994, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 All the adult specimens have entirely orange-yellow crowns, while out of the 

 seventeen specimens mentioned in Sov. Zool. 1903. ji. 113, only four have the crown 

 entirely orange-yellow, and these are all from Southern British New Guinea. 

 Although We have three s])('cinicns from British New Guinea with more or less 

 black on the occiput, should it be proved tliat the birds found uortli of the central 



