98 DRS. HARTLAUB AND FINSCH ON BIRDS [Jan. 16, 



The rufous colour of the underparts varies in intensity, being in 

 some specimens paler and mixed with whitish on the middle of vent, 

 in others uniform cinnamon-rufous or dark rufous. 



According to Mr. Kubary, who notes these specimens as males, 

 they belong to a different species ; but we are quite sure that they 

 are really the young of M. godeffroyi. There is one specimen which 

 shows undoubted signs of change from the red plumage into the 

 black, having the head here and there intermixed with black fea- 

 thers ; the middle tail-feathers are already black ; and the cinnamon 

 of the rump and upper tail-coverts is varied with white. 



Lone. al. caud. rostr. a fr. lat. rostr. tars. 



3" 2'" 2" 9'" 61-61'" 3'" 10-11'" tf(3) 



3 -3" 2"' 2 8 — 3-3^ — ? (2) 



2 11-31 2 7-2" 9'" 6|-7 — — juv. (6) 



The black and white bird is the " Gigi " of the natives ; the young 

 rufous bird is called " Golai." 



16. Campephaga nesiotis, n. sp. 



Jun. Supra rufescenti-fusco fulvoque sordide varia ; pileo nucha- 

 que cinerascentibus ; superci/iis rufi.s ; uropygio et supracaudali- 

 bus dilute rufo fuscoque transversim notatis ; gastrcEO dilute 

 cinnamomeo-rufo , pectore fasciolis rarioribus strictissimis nigris 

 nolato ; tectricibus alarum minoribus dorso concoloribus ; majo- 

 ribus, remigibus tertiariis scapularibusque fusco- nig ricantibus , 

 late rufo marginatis, ma jorum limbo externo strictissimo 

 areaque majore pogonii intend rujis ; subalaribus unicoloribus 

 rufis ; rectricibus duabus inlermediis fuscis apice fulvo margi- 

 natis, laleralibus fuscescenti-nigris macula upicali majore fulva, 

 extimce pogonio externo fulvo, nigra murginato ; rostra et pedibus 

 nigris. 

 Long. tot. circa 9|", rostri 10^'", ala? 4" 5'", caudae 3" 10'", 

 tarsi 12'". 



Back rich brown, indistinctly mottled with fulvous ; head above 

 and nape darker and more greyish ; eyebrows and frontal plumes 

 rufous ; posterior part of back and upper tail-coverts transversely 

 variegated with rufous and dark brown ; beneath light rufesceut or 

 fulvous, some narrow black bands on the breast ; under wing- 

 coverts and under tail-coverts of a uniform light rufous; win^-coverts 

 like the back ; scapulars and smaller wing- leathers blackish, with 

 broad rufous margins, primaries with a very narrow rufous external 

 margin, the inner vanes of all from the base with a larger rufous 

 marginal space ; the two middle tail-feathers brown, margined with 

 rufous at the tip, the lateral ones blackish with a larger fulvous ter- 

 minal spot, the external one black with a very broad apical part and 

 a narrow longitudinal band on the outer vane light rufous ; bill and 

 feet black. 



Two specimens from the island of Uap, discovered and sent by 

 Captain Peters. Both specimens are alike, and in the rufous dress 

 of the young bird or female. The old bird will certainly show a 



