ZELURCEDUS ARFAKIANUS, Meyer. 
Arfak Mountain Cat-bird. 
? Ptilonorhynchus melanotis (nec Gray), Rosenb. Nat. Tijclschr. Nederl. Incl. xxv. p. 23 6 (186.5, pt. : teste 
Salvadori). — Id. J. f. 0. 1864, p. 122 (pt.). 
Ptilorhynchus melanotis, pt. (nec Gray), Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 51 (1871). 
JElurcedus melanotis (nec Gray), Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 69 7. -Elliot, Monogr. Parad., Intr. p. xxii 
(1873, pt.). — Sclater, Ibis, 1874, p. 416. 
Ailurcedus arfaJcianus, Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, lxix. p. 82 (1874).— Sclater, Ibis, 1874, p. 416.— 
Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pi. 40 (1875). — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov, ix. p. 193 (1876), x. 
p. 151 (1877).— Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 99.— D’Albert. Nuova Guinea, p. 581 (1880). 
Ptilorhynchus arfakianus, Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p. 370 (1877). 
Ptilonorhynchus arfakianus, Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 554 (1879). Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 212, 241 
(1883). — Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885, p. 54. 
Mlurcedus arfakianus, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, p. 673 (1881).— Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 384 (1881).— 
D’Hamonv. Bulk Soc. Zool. France, 1886, p. 511— Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 166 (1890). 
This is a small form of JE. melanotis of Gray, which inhabits the Am Islands and the Fly River in South- 
eastern New Guinea. The Arfak Cat-bird is, however, a slightly smaller bird than JE. melanotis, with a 
somewhat blacker head and a black band on the nape. The throat also appears blacker than in the Aru 
bird, by reason of the broader black margins to the feathers. 
All the specimens at present known have come from the Arfak Mountains, where they have been found 
by D’Albertis, Beceari, and the hunters employed by Dr. A. B. Meyer and the late Mr. Bruijn. Count 
Salvadori bad eight specimens before him when he wrote his ‘ Ornitologia della Papuasia, and he considers 
the species to be quite distinct from the Black-cheeked Cat-bird from Aru. Some of the females had the 
fore-neck less black than in the males, and in all his series the fulvous spots on the crown varied considerably 
in size, but in one female bird they were especially small and of a reddish-huff colour. A very young 
female had all the feathers on the lower parts of a soft texture and a brown colour, the upper parts, wings, 
and tail being of the same colour as in the adult birds. 
All references to JE. melanotis from New Guinea, excepting from the Fly River district, doubtless refer to 
/E. arfakianus. 
Professor Schlegel mentions some specimens of a Cat-bird, collected by Hoedt in the Island of Mysol, 
and refers them to JE. melanotis, but Count Salvadori considers that they are more likely to belong to 
JE. arfakianus or to an undescribed species. 
The Plate represents the specimen procured by D’Albertis in the Arfak Mountains, 
which he lent to the late Mr. Gould for illustration in the ‘ Birds of New Guinea.’ 
It is the same one 
