iELURCEDUS STONII, Sharpe. 
Stone’s Cat-bird. 
JEluroedus stonii, Sharpe, Nature, xiv. 1876, p. 339. — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. ix. p. 193 (1876). — Sharpe, Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xiii. p. 495 (1877). — Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. iii. p. 268 (1879) ; iv. p. 97. — Salvad. Orn. 
della Papuasia, ii. p. 678 (1881). — Gould, B. NeAV Guinea, i. pi. 37 (1881). — Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
vol. vi. p. 387 (1881). — Id. Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. p. 445 (1883). — Finsch u. Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. 
p. 391 (1885). — lid. Ibis, 1886, p. 258. — D’Hamonv. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, xi. p. 511 (1886). — Salvad. 
Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 167 (1890). — De Vis, Rep. Brit. New Guinea, 1890, p. 116. 
Ailuroedus stonii, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. iii. p. 268 (1879). — Id. op. cit. iv. p. 97 (1880). 
Ptilonorhynchus stonii, Van Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp. 212, 241 (1883). — Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885> 
p. 54. 
The present species is one of the smallest of the Cat-birds, and seems to be entirely confined to the south- 
eastern portion of New Guinea, where it replaces JEluroedus buccoides of North-western New Guinea. It is 
a smaller bird than the latter, and further differs in having the crown of the head blackish brown instead of 
olive-brown, and in having the spots on the throat and under surface of the body very much smaller. 
It was first met with in South-eastern New Guinea by Mr. Octavius Stone, who found it on the Laloki 
River, and its home, so far as is known at present, appears to he the interior of the Port Moresby district. 
Mr. Goldie found the species about fifteen miles inland, inhabiting the dense scrub and feeding on fruits and 
berries. He afterwards procured it in the Sogeri district, where it was called by the natives “ Yaritagga.” 
Mr. Forbes likewise met with it in Sogeri. The late Karl Hunstein procured the species on the Horse- 
shoe Range, and Sir William Macgregor also obtained specimens on Mount Belford, in the Astrolabe Range, 
at 4000 feet. 
Mr. Goldie forwarded two eggs supposed to be those of JEluroedus stonii from Sogeri, but as they were 
white, and entirely different from those of the ordinary Cat-birds, it is reasonable to suppose that the 
identification was not correct. 
The following is the description of the type specimen given by me in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds’: — 
Adult. General colour above bright green, some of the feathers tinged with blue ; wings green like the 
back, the inner webs dusky brown, the primaries externally washed with yellow, the secondaries tipped with 
the latter colour ; tail green, blackish on the inner webs of the outermost rectrices, which are tipped with 
white; head dark brown, slightly washed with olive; hind neck yellowish buff, mottled with black centres 
to the feathers, those adjoining the mantle spotted with green ; sides of face and throat pure white, with a 
few tiny spots of black on the ear-coverts, and with larger spots on the sides of the neck ; rest of under 
surface of body ochraceous buff, the fore neck and chest minutely spotted with green, the flanks also with 
a few tiny spots of the latter colour; under wing-coverts yellowish buff, the edge of the wing washed 
with green. Total length 9'3 inches, culmen 1T5, wing 5 05, tail 35, tarsus L55. 
The Plate represents an adult bird of the natural size. 
