36 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



2. The male has the bill considerably larger than that of 

 the female. 



3. The size of the black spots on the underparts is subject 

 to considerable individual variation, the spots being larger 

 in younger birds and fewer and much smaller in the oldest 

 males, with the largest bills. 



4. Specimens of yE. stonii from South-east New Guinea 

 can be matched exactly among birds in the present series, 

 with the exception, perhaps, of the type-specimen from Laloki 

 River (0. C. Stone), which has the spots rather smaller and 

 less numerous on the chest. 



The form previously known as y^. buccoides from Northern 

 New Guinea, Waigiu, Salawatti, etc., has now been renamed 

 ^. h. oorti by Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert. 



Temminck's figure of ^E. buccoides [PI. Col. ii. p. 575 

 (1835)], founded on S. Miiller's specimens from Lobo Bay, 

 certainly agrees better with the bird from Northern New 

 Guinea, having the ground-colour of the underparts paler 

 as in that form, now called ^E. b. oorti ; but the locality, 

 Lobo, indicates clearly that Dr. van Oort is right in his 

 conclusions. The supposed difference of the size of the 

 bill noted by Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert is, as already 

 shown, merely a sexual character. 



The immature bird has the feathers of the crown yellowish- 

 buff with dark greenish middles. 



There is no great difference in size between the sexes, but 

 males are generally somewhat larger^ as the measurements 

 will show. 



8 adult males : wing 131-145 mm. 



6 adult females : wino- 127—134 mm. 



1 immature male : wing 126 mm. 



1 immature female : wing 125 mm. 



Family EULABETID^. 

 Mino dumonti. 



Mino dumontii Less. ; Sharpe, Cat. xiii. p. Ill (1890) ; 

 van Oort, p. 106 (1909) ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. x. p. 113 

 (1903), XX. p. 527 (1913) ; Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 274 

 (1912); id. Ibis, 1913, p. 87. 



