96 COUNT T. SALVADORl ON THE [Jan. 15, 



S. Miiller, under the name of Ceblepyris plumbea, has united a 

 specimen from Utanata and a young bird from Timor ; but this, ac- 

 cording to me, belongs to a much lighter species, not yet named, of 

 which I have seen adult specimens in the British Museum. With the 

 same name of C. plumbea there is in the Leyden Museum a specimen 

 marked " Borneo : " it is a young bird exactly like that from Timor ; 

 and I think that the locality is wrong. On the evidence of this 

 specimen Hartlaub (Journ. f. Orn. 18fi5, p. 155) has asserted the 

 existence of C. plumbea, Mull., in Borneo. 



20. Dicrtjropsis assimilis (G. B. Gr.). 



Bicrurus assimilis, G. B. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 129, Aru (type 

 examined). 



Chibia assimilis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. hi. p. 239 (1877). 



[No. 214. Female, "Wokan : eyes dull red ; feet and bill black ; 

 stomach contained insects. — J. M.~\ 



21. COLLTJRICINCLA MEGARHYNCHA (Q. & G.). 



Muscicapa megarhyncha, Quov & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. Zool. i. 

 p. 172, pi. 3. f. 1 (1830), Dorey (type examined). 



Napothera eleeoides, Mull., Mus. Lugd. (type examined). 



Myiolestes aruensis, G. B. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 180, Aru (type 

 examined). 



Pinarolestes megarhynchus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. hi. p. 295 

 (1877). 



[No. 240. Male : eyes hazel ; legs slate. Shot at Wanumbai. — 

 J. M.~] 



I quite agree with Mr. Sharpe in uniting the Aru bird with the 

 New- Guinea one. 



22. Bectes aruensis, Sharpe. 



Rectes dichrous, G. B. Gr. (necBp.), P. Z. S. 1858, p. 179, Aru. 



Rectes aruensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. hi. p. 285 (1877), 

 Aru (type examined) '. 



[No. 238. Female, Wanumbai : eyes dull red ; feet slate-colour 

 with a violet tinge ; stomach contained land-shells and remains of 

 insects. — J. M.~\ 



255. Female, Wanumbai : eyes hazel. — J. M.~\ 



These specimens, both marked females, and a female collected by 

 Beccari in the Aru Islands, agree in having the head blackish, the 

 front neck blackish tinged with reddish brown, the uropygium and 

 the upper tail-coverts blackish brown, the tail blackish above, and 

 decidedly reddish brown underneath. These three specimens, all 



1 The type of Rectes dichrous ceramensis, Meyer (Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixix. 

 p. 208), which I have lately seen in the Museum of Vienna, is a specimen of 

 E. uropygialis, Gray, and not of R. aruensis, as Mr. Sharpe suspects. The 

 locality, Ceram, is, no doubt, wrong. Rectes draschi, Pelzeln, Verb. z.-b. Gesell. 

 Wien, 1876, p. 218, is a female of Edohosoma scMsticeps, G. R. Gr. (ex Hombr. 

 & Jaeq. Voy. Pole Sucl, Atlas. Zool. pi. 10. f. 1, $ ). 



