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PRIONOriDiE. 
Pseudorectes leucorhynchus (Gray). (3-288.) 
Rhodes leucorhynchus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1861, p. 430: 
Gagie, error=Waigou. 
Distr. —Waigou. 
Genus MELANORECTES Sharpe. 
Melanorectes Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vol. iii. p. 289. Type (by 
monotypy): Rhodes nigrescent Schl. 
Melanorectes nigrescens (Schl.). 
Distr. —New Guinea. 
Melanorectes nigrescens nigrescens (Schl.). (3 289.) 
Rhodes nigrescens Schlegel, Ned. Tijdsch. Dierk. vol. iv. p. 96, 1871. 
Redes benneUi Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. <>02, 1874: Atam, 
Arfak Mts., Now Guinea. 
Distr. —New Guinea, Arfak. 
Melanorectes nigrescens meeki (R. & II.). 
Pitohui meeki Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. vol. xx. p. 507, 1913 : 
Mt. Goliath, Dutch New Guinea. 
Distr. —New Guinea (Dutch). 
Melanorectes nigrescens schistaceus (Reich.). 
Rhectes nigrescens schistaceus Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. vol. viii. 
p. 187, Dec. 1900: Upper Aroa River South, East New Guinea. 
Pcpteilodryns pachydemas Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. vol. ix. p. 6, 1901 : South 
New Guinea ( cf . ib. xxxiii. p. 21). This bird is araaller than schistaceus . 
Distr. —New Guinea (E.). 
Melanorectes nigrescens harterti Roichw. 
Melanorectes harterti Reichenow, Orn. Monatsb. vol. xix. p. 184, 
1911 : interior of Kai Peninsula. 
Distr .—New Guinea (N.E.). 
Melanorectes nigrescens biirgersi (Stres.). 
Rhectes nigrescens hurgersi Streaemann, Journ. f. Ornith. 1922, p. 406 : 
Schraderberg. 
Distr. —New Guinea (Schraderberg). 
Genus COLLURICINCLA V. & IT. 
Colluricincla Vigors & Hors field, Trans. Linn. Soe. Lond. vol. xv. 
p. 213, Feb. 17th, 1827. Type (by monotypy): C. cincrca=Turdus 
harmonica Latham. 
CoUurisoma Swainson, Fauna Borcal.-Amcr. vol. i. pp. 110, 171, 1831 
= Feb. 1832 (? error for Colluricincla). 
