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specimen dark subterminal bars to the feathers of the runip are seen. They may 

 be females, or immature birds of either sex (Great Sangi: Meyer — Nr. 13579; 

 Nat. Coll., 20. Vn. 93 — C 12690). 



Distribution. Great Sangi (Meyer 1, 4, Nat. Coll. in Dresden and Tring Museums). 



Remarks. The three types of this species were acquired by Meyer in 1872 — 73, and five 

 specimens were recently sent by our native collectors to the Dresden Museum, Idlled 

 in July, 1893, as shown above. The species does not seem to have been obtained by 

 Platen, Fischer, or the earKer visitors to Sangi, and the eight specimens we record 

 appear to be the only ones from Sangi in European collections. 



After E. talautense, the species seems to be most nearly related to E. amboinense 

 (Hartl.) = ceramense Sharpe of Amboina and Ceram, though E.morio may have nearly 

 as close affinities. The male of E. amboinense is described by Sharpe as pale ashy 

 slate- colour instead of plumbeous slate- colom*. The female is "creamy buff below, 

 the throat narrowly streaked with blackish, the breast and flanks with arrow-head 

 wavy cross lines of black", instead of nearly white below witli l)road bars of blackish. 

 The distinctions between E. salvadorii and E. morio are pointed out in the description 

 above. 



4 * 161. EDOLIISOMA TALAUTENSE M.&Wg. 



Talaut Slaty Cuckoo-shrike. 

 Plate XXII. 



a. Edoliisoma salvadorii (1) M. & Wg. (nee Sharpe), J. f. 0. 1S94, 244. 



Edoliisoma talautense (1) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresden 1895, Nr. 9, p. 5. 



"Toruri", or "Anaurida mawora" (cf), "Toruri tagi", or "Taigej" (g and cf j^^^-) Talaut, 

 Nat. Coll. 



Female. Differs fi'om the female of E. salvadorii of Sangi by its having the under parts buff 

 (not wliite, washed with buff in places) and the blackish bars much narrower ([$]ad. 

 type, Karkellang, Nov. 1894: Nat. Coll. — C 13795, and others). 



Male. Apparently indistinguishable from the male of E. salvadorii, unless it be that the black 

 at the tip of the two middle tail-feathers is more restricted and more sharply cut off 

 from the grey, and the greyish wliite outer edgings to the secondaries and wing- 

 coverts broader ([cT] ad. type, Kabruang, Nov. 93 — C 13121, and others). 



Young. Deeper cinnamon-buff below than the female, and with scantier dusky bars, more 

 sagittate in form; the remiges edged with cinnamon-buff; the upper parts slaty washed 

 with brown; l)ill much paler (Karkellang — C 15361). 



Measurements. Wing 117—126 mm; tail c. 110; tarsus c. 23; bill from nostril c. 15—16. 



Distribution. Talaut Islands: Kabruang and Karkellang (Nat. Coll. in Dresd. & Tring Mus.). 



Individual variation is not yet known to bridge over the gap between this 

 bird and the Sangi form, so as to bring about their union as one species. 



