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Edolisoma mêlas (Lesson). 



Lanius mêlas Lesson, Man. d'Orn. I, 1828, p. 128. 



Ceblepyris mêlas S. Mûller, Verh. Land- en Volkenk. 1839-44, p. 189. (çf). 



Ceblepyris cinnamomea S. Mùller, ibid. (Q). 



Edoliisoma nigrum, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. IV, 1879, P- 45- 



Edoliisottia mêlas, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 143. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 272, Q, Van Weel's kamp, 18 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Edolisoma montana (A. B. Meyer). 



Campephaga montana A. B. Meyer, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LXIX, 1874, p. 386. 

 Edoliisoma montanum, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. IV, 1879, P- 4-6. — Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881 p. 147 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 439, çf, Hellwig Mountains, 6 September 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Edolisoma meyeri sharpei Rothschild & Hartert. 



Edoliisoma fiieyeri sharpei Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. X, 1903, p. 209. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 429, (?, Resi kamp, 7 September 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Similar to the maie of E. schisticeps, but upon the whole more bluish grey; forehead 

 and lores deep black; earcoverts, chin and throat blackish blue-grey; wings black, win°-coverts 

 with bluish grey margins; secondaries with narrow bluish grey margins ; tailfeathers black, 

 middle pair bluish grey with a black band at the tip, outer pair with a bluish grey tip; under 

 wingcoverts bluish grey; wing 110, tail 83, bill 2.0, tarso-met. 23 mm. 



Dr. HARTERT has compared the bird with the type-specimen of sharpei from the 

 northcoast in the Tring Muséum and has found the two spécimens resembling each other. 

 Our bird only is a little smaller. 



Crateropidae. 



Pomatorhinus isidori Lesson. 



Pomatorhinus isidori Lesson, Voy. Coqu. Zool. I, 1828, p. 680, pi. 29, f. 2. — Salvadori Orn. 

 Pap. II, 1881, p. 409. — Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. VII, 1883, p. 432. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 172, (f, Van Weel's kamp, 30 May 1907. Iris yellow, bill yellow, feet brownish black. 



N°. 175, Q, Van Weel's kamp, 31 May 1907. Iris light brown, bill brown with yellow tip, 



feet black. 

 N°. 269, Q, Noord River, 20 June 1907. Iris yellow, bill yellow with black base, feet black. 

 N°. 276, 9. Van Weel's kamp, 21 June 1907. Iris yellow, bill yellow, feet dark grey. 

 N". 277, cT, Van Weel's kamp, 21 June 1907. Iris yellow, bill yellow, feet dark grey. 

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