374 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAB XXIX, 1922. 



(Lord Rothschild, Bull. B.O. CM, xxxvi. p. 58, declared that " the type 

 of E. meyeri sharpei and the specimens from South New Guinea are nothing 

 more nor less than the adult males of EdoUisoma incertum." We have now seven 

 adult and one juvenile male from the Lower Snow Mts. and the Hydrographer 

 Range, W. of Dyke Acland Bay, S.E. New Guinea, and also seven females from 

 the Snow Mts., Aroa River, and Hydrographer Range. The ? has only blackish 

 lores, but no black ear-coverts or throat, and the under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 are barred grey and white, instead of uniform slaty-grey. I agree that meyeri, 

 sharpei, and incertum are subspecies, and as incertum is an older name, our form 

 must be called H. incertum sharpei. As the type of incertum is from Jobi, and 

 Meyer, Abh. naturw. Ges. Isis, 1884, p. 29, states a number of differences between 

 his Jobi type and a specimen from Andai — ^which I compared with our New 

 Guinea examples, and which agrees absolutely with the females — ^we cannot at 

 present conclude that incertum and sharpei are " identical," but we may treat 

 them as subspecies.) 



942. Edolisoma mindanense sula Hart. = Edolisoma mindanense sula. 



Edolisoma mindanense sula Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxxviii. p. 28 (published January 1918 — 

 " Sula Beai and Sula Mangoli Islands"). 



Type : ? ad., Sula Besi, October 1897. WiUiam Doherty leg. 



943. Edoliosoma emancipata Hart. = Edolisoma emancipata. 

 Edoliosoma emancipata Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 170 (1896 — Djampea Island). 



Types : (J$, Djampea, between Plores and Celebes, December 1895. Alfred 

 Everett leg. 



944. Edolisoma morio pererratum Hart. = Edotisoma morio pererratum. 



Edolisoma morio pererratum Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxxviii. p. 28 (pubUshed January 1918 — 

 Tukang-Besi Islands, Tomi and Kalidupa). 



Type: (J, Tomia Island, Tukang-Besi group, S.E. of Celebes, 23.xii.1901. 

 Heinrich Kiihn leg. No. 4408. 



945. Edolisoma obiense pelingi Hart. = Edolisoma obiense pelingi. 



Edolisoma obiense pelingi Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxxviii. p. 27 (published January 1918 — " islands 

 of Peling and Banggai between East Celebes and the Sula Islands "). 



Type : $ ad., Peling, summer 1895. Cursham leg. 



946. Edoliosoma amboinense tagulanum Hart. = Edolisoma tagulanum. 



Edoliosoma amboinense tagulanum Hartert, Nov. Zool. v. p. 524 (1898 — Sudest or Tagula Island, 

 S.E. of New Guinea). 



Type : c? ad., Sudest Island, 20. iv. 1898. A. S. Meek leg. No. 1767. 



(This form is probably a subspecies of E. amboinense or incertum, but it 

 requires a full study of all forms of the genus to group this, emancipata, and 

 other forms finally, and in order to avoid uncertain experiments and changes, 

 it will be best to use binomials for the present for this and other forms.) 



