collected in Dutch New Guinea. 123 



a-m. (^ ? et c? imm. Mouth of the Mimika River, 2nd 

 Dec. 1910-23rd March, 1911. [Nos. 26, 89, 164, 168, 1184, 

 1153, 1188, 1206, 1207, 1214, 1215, 1245, C.H.B. G.'\ 



n. ^ imm. Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 20th Oct. 1912. 

 [C.B.K.'] 



0. S imm. Camp 6 a, Utakwa River, 2900 ft., 15th Jan. 

 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



Male. Iris dark brown ; bill and legs black. Female. Iris 

 brown ; bill sooty-black ; feet very dark slate-colour. 



The type-specimen of Cehlepyris plumhea Miiller was 

 procured on the Utanata River, and the birds listed above 

 are undoubtedly referable to that species. 



I agree with Dr. van Oort that Miiller's name should be 

 retained for this species_, and that it is not invalidated by 

 " Cehlepyr. plumb." Wagler, a nomen nudum published in 

 1827 (cf. Syst. Av. Corvus., App. sp. 4). Count Salvadori, 

 however, took a different view, and renamed the species 

 ]£. miilleri, and Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert have followed 

 him. The latter have kept up Kdoliisoma aruense Sharpe, 

 stating, however, that it is merely a slightly smaller form of 

 i?. miilleri ( = E. plumhea). The specimen described by 

 Sharpe from Lutor as the type-female of his E. aruense has 

 the underparts chestnut or very deep fawn-colour, as in the 

 female of E. grayi Salvad., from Batchian, etc. It appears 

 to be ver}'^ different from the females of E. plumhea and 

 from the only female example we possess from the Aru 

 Islands, In all these skins, nine in number, the ground- 

 colour of the underparts is creamy-buff and quite unlike that 

 described by Sharpe. Either two species, E. plumhea and 

 E. aruense^ are found in the Aru Islands, or else, as seems 

 to me more probable, the female described by Sharpe is an 

 abnormally dark-coloured specimen. 



Five female specimens from the Aru Islands in the Tring 

 Museum point to this conclusion, all having the underparts 

 cream-coloured. Our specimens of E. aruense do not seem 

 to be smaller than typical examples of E. plumhea, as stated 

 by Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert, and I cannot see any 

 reason for separating them. 



