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In young birds the red of the crown is extended to the nape, and the under tail- 

 coverts are tinged with red; in n°. 465, the young maie, also some feathers of the throat 

 are tinged with red. 



Corvidae. 



Corvus orru Bonaparte. 



Cornus orru Bonaparte, Consp. Av. I, 1S50, p. 385. — Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 483. 

 Corone enca subsp. Corone orru, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. III, 1877, p. 44. 



Coll. KOCH: 



Ç>, Merauke, 22 August 1904. Iris, bill and feet black. 



Native name : Rarake. 



Gymnocorvus senex (Lesson). 



Coi-vus senex Lesson, Voy. Coqu. Zool. I, 1828, p. 651, pi. 24. 



Gymnocorax senex, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. III, 1877, p. 50. — Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 490. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 304, Q, Sabang, 30 June 1907. Iris light blue, bill and feet dull white. 



N°. 317, cfi Van Weel's kamp, 2 July 1907. Iris blue, bill and feet dull white. 



N°. 346, çf, Sabang, 16 July 1907. Iris light blue, bill dull white with dark tip, feet dull white. 



Paradiseidae. 



Ailuroedus buccoides (Temminck). 



Kitta buccoides Temminck, PI. col. 575, 1835. 



Aeluroedus buccoides, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1SS1, p. 675. — Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. VI, 



1881, p. 386. — Rothschild, Tierr. Paradis. 1898, p. 6. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 56, Ç, Noord River, 15 May 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet slate-blue. 



N°. 125, (not sexed), Noord River, 24 May 1907. Iris light brown, bill and feet greyish blue. 



N°. 298, Ç, Sabang, 27 June 1907. Iris orange, bill slate-blue, feet blackish grey. 



N°- 392, cf, Alkmaar, 4 August 1907. Iris orange-brown, bill and feet bluish grey. 



N°. 395, rf, Alkmaar, 8 August 1907. Iris red-brown, bill and feet bluish grey. 



Thèse spécimens differ from examples from N. W. New Guinea and the adjacent 

 islands by the somewhat darker ground-colour of the undersurface and by the smaller black 

 or greenish spots on belly and sides of the body. One of the two type-specimens of Temminck's 

 Kitta buccoides, still preserved in the Leyden Muséum, a female collected by S. MûLLER in 

 the summer of 1828 at the Lobo Bay, S. W. New Guinea, has the ground-colour of the 

 undersurface a little deeper buff than most of the spécimens from N. W. New Guinea, 

 Waigéu, Batanta and Salawati in the Leyden Muséum and also are the black spots on lower 

 breast, vent and sides of body conspicuously smaller, much smaller than shown on the plate 

 in the Planches Coloriées. The five birds collected by Mr. LoRENTZ are, I believe, identical 



