E. D. VAN OORT. BIRDS. 93 



Cracticus quoyi (Lesson). 



Barita quoyi Lesson, Voy. Coqu. Zool. 1, 1828, p. 63g, pi. 14. 



Cracticus quoyi, Salvadori, Orn: Pap. II, 1881, p. 190. — Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. VIII, 1883, p. 94. 



Coll. LORENTZ : 



N°. 406, rf, Alkmaar, 17 August 1907. Iris dark brown, bill bluish grey with black tip, feet black. 

 N°. 453, Ç, Alkmaar, 21 September 1907. Iris dark brown, bill slate-blue, feet black. 



Prionopidae. 



Pitohui kirhoceplialits decipiens (Salvadori). 



Rectes decipiens Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, XII, 1878, p. 473. 



Rhectes decipiens, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. Il, 1881, p. 197. 



Pitohui kirhocephalus decipiens, Van Oort, Notes Leyden Mus. XXX, igo8-'o9, p. 237. 



Coll. KOCH: 



çf, Etna Bay, 15 December 1904. Iris dark red, bill and feet dark grey. 



Pitohui aruensis nigripectus nov. subsp. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°.- 286, Ç, Sabang, 16 June 1907. Iris red, bill and feet black. 



N°. 288, 9- Sabang, 17 June 1907. Iris red, bill and feet black. 



N°. 289, cfi juv., Sabang, 22 June 1907. Iris dark red, bill black, feet slate-blue. 



N°. 297, Ç, Sabang, 27 June 1907. Iris dark red, bill black, feet dark grey. 



N . 418, ef, Resi kamp, 29 August 1907. Iris red-brown, bill and feet black. 



This new-form cornes nearest to Pitohui aruensis (Sharpe), (Rectes aruensis Sharpe, Cat. B. 

 Br. M. III, 1877,- p. 285); it difïers by the almost black breast in adult birds and by its larger size. 



Adult birds, n os . 288 and 418. Head ail round, foreneck, breast, • wings, rump, upper 

 tailcoverts and tail black; back, scapulars and hindneck bright rufous-cinnamon; sides of 

 body, vent, under tailcoverts and thighs ferrugineous ; under wingcoverts ochraceous, those 

 near the bend of the wing black. In younger birds, n os . 286 and 297, the breast is not black, 

 but pale ochre-rufous like the vent and under tailcoverts; the colour of the back is not so 

 bright as in the adult ones and the lovver back is mixed with black. In the very young bird, n°. 289, 

 the black colour of wings and tail is much duller, more brownish black, and the head, chin and 

 throat are brownish; the lower back and rump. are black, strongly washed with rufous-cinna- 

 mon ; the under parts are ochre-rufous. The measurements are : 



tail, 

 1 1 1 



"3 

 114 



107 

 Pitohui aruensis (Sharpe) is smaller; the wing of the spécimens in the collection of 









Wing, 



N°. 



286, 



9, 



121 



N°. 



288, 



9 ad., 



124. 



N°. 



289, 



cf ? juv., 



118 



N°. 



2 97> 



9. 



118 



N°. 



418, 



cf ad., 



120 



bill, 



tarso-met 



28 ' 



34 mm. 



28 



00 n 



damaged 



33 h 



26 



33 « 



27 



34 „ 



