iELURGEDUS BUCCOIDES ( Temm.). 
Barbet-like Cat-bird. 
Kitta luccoides, Temm. PI. Col. ii. pi. 575 (1835).— Id. Tabl. Meth. PI. Col. i. p. 10 (1840). — Rosenb. Nat. 
Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 236 (1863). — Id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 122. 
Cissa luccoides , Gray, Gen. B. iii., App. p. 14 (1849). 
Ptilorhyncfius luccoides, Bp. Consp. Ay. i. p. 370 (1850). — Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1862, p. 165. — Id. Ann. 
& Mag. N. H. (3) xi. p. 57 (1863). — Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Coraces, p. 118 (1867). — Id. Nederl. 
Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 49 (1871). 
Ptilonorbynchus luccoides, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 194. — Id. Cat. B. New Guin. pp. 37, 59 (1859). — 
Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 (1865).- — Gray, PIand-1. B. i. p. 294, no. 4337 (1869).— Rosenb. Malay. 
Archip. p. 554 (187 9). — Mussehenbr. Dagboek, pp. 211, 240 (1883). — Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. 
Wien, 1885, p. 54. 
Ailurosdus luccoides, Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pi. 41 (1875). — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov, vii. p. 780 (1875). 
JEhroediis luccoides, Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pi. 36 (1873). — Scl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 697. — Salvad. Ann, 
Mus Genov, ix. p. 193 (1876), x. p. 152 (188(C). — D’Alb. et Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 114 (1879). — 
D’Alb. Nuova Guin. pp. 581, 588 (1880). — Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ii, p. 675 (1881). — Sharpe, Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 386 (1881). — Nehrk. J. f. 0. 1885, p. 34. — Guillem. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 657. — 
Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 167 (1891). — Madarasz, Aquila, i. p. 91 (1894). 
This is one of the smaller species of Cat-bird, and is further distinguished by the strongly marked spotting 
of the breast and the very distinct white streaking on the nape, and by the absence of white tips to the 
tail-feathers. 
The first specimen was procured by Solomon Muller at Loho, in Triton Bay in New Guinea, and it seems 
to be somewhat widely distributed in that great island, for Count Salvador! gives the following localities 
from which he has examined specimens — Sorong, Dorey, Mansinam, Andai, and Warbusi. The species 
was obtained in these places by Dr. Beccari, Signor D’Albertis, and by the hunters employed by the late 
Mr. Brnijn. D’Albertis also met with this Cat-bird on the Fly River, and the late Mr. Fenichel likewise 
procured a specimen during his expedition to the Finisterre Mountains, in German New Guinea, at a place 
called Kulikumana, on the 29th of August, 1892. Dr. von Madarasz was so kind as to send me this 
specimen for examination. It seemed to differ slightly in the colour of the head from our series of skins 
of /E. buccoides in the British Museum ; hut after the remarks of Count Salvadori on the variation in 
the colour of the crown in the present species, I could not regard it as belonging to anything else. 
Certainly it was not /E. geislerorum , of which specimens were also sent by Fenichel. 
Besides the above-mentioned places in New Guinea, examples of JE. buccoides are in the Leiden 
Museum from the islands of Salawati, Waigiou, and Batanta, where they were procured by the late 
Dr. Bernstein. Von Rosenberg’s statement that it is also found in the Aru Islands must be erroneous, 
as already pointed out by Count Salvadori. 
Nothing has yet been recorded concerning the habits of this Cat-bird, beyond the fact that D’Albertis 
found it feeding on fruits. 
The following description is a copy of that given by me in the sixth volume of the ‘ Catalogue of 
Birds ’ : — 
Adidt. Above bright grass-green, the wings uniform with the back ; primaries blackish, externally 
bright green, the secondaries slightly shaded with bluish on the outer web, the innermost minutely 
tipped with yellowish buff; tail duller green, narrowly tipped with white on the inner web of the outer 
feathers ; crown of head olive-brown, the hinder neck, as well as the sides of the latter, black, streaked 
with yellowish buff, this colour occupying the basal part of the feather, the black confined to a large 
sub-terminal spot ; the mantle also slightly mottled with yellowish buff, wfith w'hicb many of the feathers 
are barred, some few' being also tipped with black ; lores scantily feathered with brovvn plumelets ; 
eye-ring buff; behind the eye a bare space; sides of face buff, everywhere mottled with black spots, 
the hinder part of the ear-coverts entirely black, the cheeks also somewhat spotted with white; throat 
huffy white, the chin and low'er throat spotted with black ; rest of under surface light fawn-buff, 
everywhere largely spotted with ovate black markings, these spots less on the abdomen and absent 
