368 



4. JEdoliisoma incertum. 



Campephaga incerta, Meyer, Sitz K. Akad. Wien, LXIX, p. 387. 

 Edoliisoma incertum, Salvad- Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. VII, p. 928. 

 a. 9 Ausus, Jobi, April 1873. Type of species. 

 It is among'st the grey group oi Edoliisoma, composed ofthe piesent and the allied species, tliat tbc 

 greatest difficulty in determination exists, and from the females alone can any certainty of their distinctness 

 exist, and they seem to be wonderfully different from each other. For instance in the present species, the 

 female seems to be exactly like the male, excepting that it is rather duller and has the centre tail-feathers 

 entirely uniform grey without any subterminal black spot at all: the black on the lores and sides of face 

 also is not so pronounced. Besides the typical female bird I have seen one from Ansus, collected by 

 Bruijn and lent to me by Count Salvadori: it is exactly similar to Dr. Meyer's type. The male bird 

 in the Genoa Museum is from Miosnoum, and is scarcely to be told from E. ohiense, Salvadori, the type 

 of which he has also kindly lent me; yet he informs me that the female of the latter is totally different 

 and is like the hen of E. bchistaceiceps that is to say, chestnut below. 



5. Edoliisoma ineyeri. 



Campephaga plumbea (nee Wagl.), Meyer, Sitz K. Akad. Wien, LXIX, p. 388. 

 Edoliisoma meyeri, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. XII, p. 327. 



a. b. c. cf ad. d. e. f. g. 9 ad. Kordo, Mysore, April 1873. 

 h. c? imm. i. k. l. 9 Mafoor, March 1873. 



The male of this species is a large edition of E. incertum and E. ohiense with a shade of black all 

 over the throat, even exteuding to the jugular region. The female, on the contrary, of which I have 

 examined not only Dr. Meyer's specimens but otbers lent me by Count Salvadori, is a very different bird, 

 and approaches the female of E. scJiistaceiceps , like which it has a bluish grey head. But in the last 

 named bird the rump also is chestnut, whereas in E. meyeri the rump and upper tail coverts are only a 

 little lighter than the rest of the back. E. meyeri is also a larger bird. 



The Mafoor bird I cannot speak of with certainty, as there is not an adult male either in Dr. 

 Meyer's collection or the Genoa Museum. The under surface of the females is rather paler than in the 

 Mysore birds and the male, which is putting on the grey dress, also appears lighter but on the strength of 

 the females I fancy the Mafoor Cuckoo-shrike will prove to be inseparable from the Mysore species. 



6. JEdoliisoma tenuirostre. 



Graucalus tenuirostris, Jard. Edinh. Journ. N. Ser. IV, p. 211. 



Ceblepyris jardinii, Rüpp. Mus. Senckenh. iii, p. 30. 



Ceblepyris plumbea, S. Müll. Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land en Volkenk., p. 189 (nee Wagler). 



Campephaga tenuirostris, Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 283. 



Campephaga plumbea, Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 283. 



Campephaga jardinii, Gould, B. Austr. folio, II, pl. 60. 



Graucalus jardinii, Hartl. J. f. 0. 1864, p. 441. 



Volvocivora plumbea, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 149. 



Edoliisoma mülleri, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. VII, p. 927. 



a. c? juv. Waweji, New Guinea, May 1873, wing 4.8 inches. 



h. cT juv. Rubi, New Guinea, May 1873, loing 4.85 inches. 



These specimens being immature, it is difficult to determine the exact species. They appear, however^ 

 to belong to the Australian bird. 



