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Show 96 COUNT T. SALVADORI O N T HE [Jan. 15, S.^ Miiller, under the name of Ceblepyris plumbea, has united a specimen from Utanata and a young bird from Timor ; but this, according to me, belongs to a much lighter species, not yet named, of which I have seen adult specimens in the British Museum. With the same name of C. plumbea there is in the Leyden Museum a specimen marked " Borneo :" it is a young bird exactly like that from Timor ; and I think that the locality is wrong. On the evidence of this specimen Hartlaub (Journ. f. Orn. 1865, p. 155) has asserted the existence of C. plumbea, Miill., in Borneo. 20. DICRUROPSIS ASSIMILIS (G. R. Gr.). Dicrurus assimilis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 129, Aru (type examined). Chibia assimilis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 239 (1877). [No. 214. Female, Wokan: eyes dull red; feet and bill black; stomach contained insects.-J. Mi] 21. COLLURICINCLA MEGARHYNCHA (Q. & G.). Muscicapa megarhyncha, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. Zool. p. 172, pl. 3. f. 1 (1830), Dorey (type examined). Napothera elceoides, Miill., Mus. Lugd. (type examined). Myiolestes aruensis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 180, Aru (type examined). Pinarolestes megarhynchus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 295 (1877). [No. 240. Male : eyes hazel; legs slate. Shot at Wanumbai.- J. Mi] I quite agree with Mr. Sharpe in uniting the Aru bird with the New-Guinea one. 22. RECTES ARUENSIS, Sharpe. Rectes dichrous, G. R. Gr. (necBp.), P. Z. S. 1858, p. 179, Aru. Rectes aruensis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 285 (1877), Aru (type examined)1. [No. 238. Female, Wanumbai: eyes dull red; feet slate-colour with a violet tinge; stomach contained land-shells and remains of insects.-J. Mi] 255. Female, Wanumbai: eyes hazel.-J. Mi] These specimens, both marked females, and a female collected by Beccari in the Aru Islands, agree in having the head blackish, the front neck blackish tinged with reddish brown, the uropygium and the upper tail-coverts blackish brown, the tail blackish above, and decidedly reddish brown underneath. These three specimens, all 1 The type of Rectes dichrous ceramensis, Meyer (Sitzb. Ak. Wien, Ixix. p. 208), which I have lately seen in the Museum of Vienna, is a specimen of R. uropygialis, Gray, and not of R. aruensis, as Mr. Sharpe suspects. The locality, Ceram, is, no doubt, wrong. Rectes draschi, Pelzeln, Verh. z.-b. Gesell. Wien, 1876, p. 218, is a female of Edoliosoma schisticeps, G. E. Gr. (ex Hombr. & Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, Zool. pl. 10. f. 1, £ ). |