^LURCEDUS STONII, Sharpe. 
Stone’s Cat Bird. 
Mluroetlus stonii, Sharpe, Nature, Aug. 17, 1876, p. 339. — Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genova, ix. p. 193 (1876). 
— Sharpe, Proc. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 495 (1877). — Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soe. New S. Wales, iii. p. 268 
(1879); iv. p. 97 (1879). — Salvad. Orn. della Papuasia &c. p. 678 (1881). 
Count Salvadoki, in his great work on the birds of New Guinea, mentions his having examined the type 
of this species in the British Museum ; but he considers that it is by no means a very well-marked form, 
and may yet prove to be identical with ySi". huccoides. This was at first my own idea ; and although I had 
the drawing prepared some years ago, I never ventured to publish it, but relied on the arrival of more 
specimens to decide the validity of the species. I have since seen several examples from South-eastern 
New Guinea, and I have found all the characters noted by Mr. Sharpe to be fully borne out in all the birds 
examined by me ; so that now I have no alternative but to recognize Stone’s Cat Bird as a well-founded 
species of the genus JEluroBdus, It is closely allied to JE. huccoides of North-western New Guinea (which 
bird, by the way, has been said by Count Salvadori to have been obtained on the Fly river also), but is 
distinguished by the small spots on the under surface and the darker head. It represents JE. huccoides in 
South-eastern New Guinea. 
Mr. E, P. Ramsay records the capture of a few specimens by Mr. A. Goldie, about fifteen miles inland 
from Port Moresby. They were found in dense scrubs, feeding on fruit and berries. 
The following description has been copied from Mr. Sharpe’s original account of the species : — 
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 liny spots of black on the ear-coverts, larger 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, culinen 1T5, wing 5*05, tail 3’5, tarsus 1'55. 
The figure in the Plate, which represents the species of about the natural size, has been drawn from the 
typical sj)ecimen kindly lent to me by Mr. Bowdler Sharpe. 
