IOO E. D. VAN OORT. BIRDS. 



with the true Aeluroedus buccoides (Temminck), which is most likely differing from the birds 

 of N. W. New Guinea and the adjacent islands, the latter having as a rule a more paler 

 buff undersurface and larger spots on vent and sides of body. There is at the présent time 

 still only one of the two type-specimens of Kitta buccoides, mentioned by TEMMINCK, in the 

 collection of the Leyden Muséum. I hâve not seen any further spécimen from the vicinity 

 of the Lobo Bay. The type-specimen dates of 1828 and is surely somewhat bleached. Only 

 a séries from this locality can décide, if my supposition is right. The five birds from the 

 Noord River surely differ from spécimens from N. W. New Guinea and from the islands ; 

 they are intermediate between spécimens from those localities and Ailuroedus buccoides stonii 

 Sharpe from S. E. New Guinea, resembling however more the first-named spécimens. Our 

 birds measure : 









Wing, 



tai-1, 



bill, 



tarso-met 



N°. 



56, 9, 





129 



IOO 



26 



39 mm. 



N = . 



125, (not 



sexed), 



134-128 



95 



25 



39 * 



N°. 



298, 9. 





132 



94 



26 



37 11 



N°. 



39 2 , cf, 





133 



86 



26 



33 , 



N°. 



395, cf, 





132 



90 



27 



39 » 



The head of the five examples is strongly washed with green. 



Xantliomehts ardens D'Albertis & Salvadori. 



Plate III. 



Xanthomelus ardens D'Albertis & Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, XIV, 1879, p. 113. — 

 Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1SS1, p. 663. — Sharpe, Mon. Paradis. II, 1891-98: Van Oort, Orn. 

 Monatsber. 1909, p. 72. 



Xanthomelus aiireus ardens, Rothschild, Tierr. Paradis. 1898. p. n. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 323, cf in full dress, Sabang, 9 July 1907. Iris yellow, bill dull brown, feet black. 



N°. 338. cf in full dress, Sabang, 14 July 1907. Iris straw-yellow, bill dull brown, feet black. 



Mr. LORENTZ had the good fortune to procure two adult maies of this till now very 

 insufiiciently known species. The description of the old maie by D'ALBERTIS and SALVADORI 

 was made after an incomplète native skin, used as ornament by the inhabitants of the Fly 

 River; chin, throat, sides of face, breast and vent are wanting in this skin, so that nothing 

 about the coloration of thèse parts could be said and the similarity of thèse parts to those 

 of Xanthomelus aurea (L.), was only a supposition of the authors. The figure of the old 

 maie in Sharpe's Monograph of the Paradiseidae, which is made after the type-specimen of 

 D'Albertis and Salvadori, is of course a bird of fancy. 



As the coloration of chin, throat and sides of face of the two birds collected by 

 Mr. LORENTZ is quite différent from that of the same parts in X. aurea (L.), I sent one of 

 the spécimens to Dr. GESTRO of the Genoa Muséum, who was so kind to compare it with 

 the type-specimen of X. ardens in that Muséum and who communicated me: „J'ai comparé 

 votre exemplaire avec le type de Xanthomelus ardens et quoique celui-ci soit représenté par 

 un fragment de peau, j'ai la persuasion que votre spécimen appartient à cette espèce. Notre 



