g2 E. D. VAN OORT. BIRDS. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°, 358, cTi Alkmaar, 22 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill slate-blue, feët dark grey. 

 N°. 359, Q, Alkmaar, 22 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill slate-blue, feet dark grey. 

 N°. 561, (not sexed), Alkmaar, 22 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill slate-blue, feet dark grey. 



Thèse spécimens measure: wing 129, 115 and 120 mm., bill 17, 16.5 and 16.5 mm. 



Laniidae. 



Pachycephala aurea Reichenow. 



Pachycephala aurea Reichenow, Orn. Monatsber. VII, 1899, p. 131. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 234, (f, Noord River, 14 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 306, cf, Geitenkamp, 2 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. (Ex spirits). 



N°- 357, cT, Alkmaar, 22 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 369, çf, Alkmaar, 24 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



N°. 380, cT, Alkmaar, 27 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Thèse examples are a little larger than the type-specimen of Reichenow from German 

 New Guinea; they measure: wing 86 — 90, tail 65 — 69, bill 17 — iS, tarso-met. 24 mm. The 

 white patch on the throat varies in size ; in n°. 380 it is but very small, some of the feathers 

 having moreover black tips. 



Pachycare fiavogrisea (A. B. Meyer). 



Pachycephala fiavogrisea A. B. Meyer, Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, LXIX, 1874, p. 495. — 

 Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 238. — Gadow, Cat. B. Br. M. VIII, 1883, p. 226. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 410, çf,- Resi kamp, 26 August 1907. Iris dark brown, bill black, feet flesh-colour. 

 N°. 424, rf, Resi kamp, 2 September 1907. Iris dark brown, bill black, feet light brown. 

 N°. 426, çf, Resi kamp, 3 September 1907. Iris brown, bill black, feet light brown. 



Cracticus cassicus (Boddaert). 



Ramphastos cassicus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783, p. 38. 



Cracticus cassicus, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 184. — Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. VIII, 1883, p. 97. 



Coll. KOCH: 



cf, Etna Bay, 22 November 1904. Iris blackish brown, bill grey with blue tip, feet grey. 

 Native name : Perrè. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 146, (not sexed), Noord River, 25 May 1907. Bill light blue with black tip, feet black. 

 N°. 267, Ç, Van Weel's kamp, 16 June 1907. Bill slate-blue with black tip, feet black. 

 N°. 291, çf, Sabang, 24 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill slate-blue with black tip, feet black. 

 N°. 294, rf, Sabang, 25 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill slate-blue with black tip, feet black. 

 N .. 327, Q, Sabang, 11 July 1907. Iris dark brown, bill slate-blue with black tip, feet dark grey. 



