collected hi Dutch Nexo Guinea. 



127 



Edoliisoma montanum. 



Edoliisoma montanum (Meyer) ; Sharpe, Cat. iv. p. 46 

 (1879) ; Roths. & Hartert, is\ Z. x. p. 207 (1903) ; van 

 Oort, p. 89 (1909). 



Edoliisoma montanum minus Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. xiv. 

 p. 464 (1907), XX. p. 500 (1913). 



Edoliisoma utahvensis Ogilvie-Grrant, Bull. B. 0. C. xxxi. 

 p. 105 (1913) [? inim.]. 



a. (^ imm. Camp 6 B, Utakwa River^ 4200 ft., 27th Jan. 

 1913. [C.B.K.] 



b,c. S' Camp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500 £t., 18th & 25th 

 Feb. 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



d. ? imm. Camp 9, Utakwa River, 5500 ft., 30th Jan. 

 1913. [ C. B. K.] (Type of E. utakwensis.) 



Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert have separated the race 

 found in ^South-east New Gruinea under the name E. m. minus, 

 and to this smaller race they have referred specimens from 

 Mount Goliath. As the difference is merely a matter of 

 size, and as larger individuals from South-east New Guinea 

 are indistinguishable from typical E. montanum, from the 

 Arfak Mountains, I prefer to keep all under that heading. 



The following are the measurements of examples in the 

 British Museum : — 



Wing 

 mm. 



<S. Arfak 135 



S . Utakwa R 132 



(2) S- Utakwa R 129 



(2) c? . Owen Stanley Mts. . . 126 

 c? . Owen Stanley Mts. . , 128 

 c?. Owen Stanley Mts.. . 131 



S . Astrolabe Mts 132 



S . Astrolabe Mts 134 



Wing 

 mm. 



$. Utakwa R 135 



2 . Owen Stanley Mts 120 



$ . Owen Stanley Mts 124 



$ . Owen Stanley Mts 127 



An immature female with dark shaft-streaks to all the 

 feathers of the grey plumage of the upper- and underparts 

 has been described by me as a new species under the name 

 E. utakwensis : I now see that it must be a younger example 

 of E. montamim, with which I have united it. 



