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ON NEW-GUINEA BIRDS, 



Pitohui kirhocephalus in our collection provisionally obscurus, 

 for I then could not unite these specimens with Rhectes 

 decipiens Salvadori, as his description „rufo-ciunamomeus, 

 subtus valde pallidior," does not agree with our examples, 

 the colour of the underparts being not „rufo-cinnamomeus, 

 valde pallidior" but much more „aurantio-ferrugineus." 

 There is no doubt, however, Salvadori's decipiens and my 

 obscurus are the same, for in the description of Pitohui 

 kirhocephalus (Lesson), which has about the same coloration 

 on back and underparts, Salvadori speaks also of „rufo- 

 cinnamomeus, subtus valde pallidior." 



Laniidae. 



Cracticus cassicus (Boddaert). 



Cracticus cassicus, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 184. — 

 Gadow, Cat. B. Br. M. VIII, 1883, p. 97. 



A female. Sekar near Kaukas, 16 March 1907. Coll. 

 van Cloven. 



Paramythiidae. 

 Paramythia montium Vis. 



Paramythia montium, Sclater, Ibis, 1893, p. 243, pi. VII. 



One adult specimen. Owen Stanley Mountains. Coll. 

 Henkelman. 



Dicaeidae. 



Oreocharis arfaki (A. B. Meyer). 



Oreocharis arfaki, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 289. — 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. X, 1885, p. 53. 



Two adult males. Owen Stanley Mountains. Coll. Hen- 

 kelman. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXX. 



