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ALURGDUS STONTI, Sharpe.

Stone’s Cat-bird.

Ailuredus stonii, Sharpe, Nature, xiy. 1876, p. 339.—Salvad. Ann. Mus.

Gen. ix. p. 193 (1876).—Sharpe, Journ. Linn.
Soe. xiii. p. 495 (1877 -—Ramsay, Proce. Linn. Soc. N.S.W.

lil. p. 268 (1879) ; iv. p. 97.—Salvad. Orn.

 

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della Papuasia, ii. P. 678 (1881).—Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pl. 37 (1881).—Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. be Gi
} vol. vi. p. 387 (1881).—Id. Journ. Linn, Soc. xvi. p. 445 (1883).—Finsch u. Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. ii. S A
= y’ Pp. 391 (1885).—Tid. Ibis, 1886, p. 258.—D’ Hamonv. Bull. Soe. Zool. France, xi. p. 511 (1886).—Salvad. en
\ : | Age. Orn. Papuasia, ii, Pp. 167 (1890).—De Vis, Rep. Brit. New Guinea, 1890, pe ie ee
\ t 4 Ailureedus stonii, Ramsay, Proc. Linn, Soe. N.S.W.

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ll. p. 268 (1879).—Id. Op. cit. iv. p. 97 (1880).
\ AB Ptilonorhynchus stonii, Van Musschenbr. Dagboek, pp.

212, 241 (1883).—Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1885,
p. 54.

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Tue present species is one of the smallest of the Cat-birds, and seems to be entir
eastern portion of New Guinea, where it replaces Aluredus buccoides of
a smaller bird than the latter, and further differs in h

olive-brown, and in having the spots on the throat

ely confined to the south-
North-western New Guinea. It is
aving the crown of the head blackish brown instead of
and under surface of the body ve
It was first met with in South-eastern New Guinea by Mr. O
River, and its home, so far as is known

ry much smaller,

ctavius Stone, who found it on the Laloki
at present, appears to be the interior of the P
Mr. Goldie found the species about fifteen miles inland
berries. He afterwards procured it in the
Mr. Forbes likewise met with it in Sogeri.

ort Moresby district.
, inhabiting the dense scrub and feeding on fruits and
Sogeri district, where it was called by the natives « Yarit

The late Karl Hunstein pro
shoe Range, and Sir William Macgregor also obtained specime
at 4000 feet.

Mr. Goldie forwarded two eggs supposed to be those

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cured the species on the Horse-
ns on Mount Belford, in the Astrolabe Range,

of Aluredus stonii from Sogeri,
white, and entirely different from those of the ordinary Cat-birds, it is
identification was not correct.

but as they were
reasonable to suppose that the
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
d with yellow, the secondaries tipped with
ackish 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 far-coverts, and with larger spots on the side
. surface of body ochraceous buff, the fore neck

back, the inner webs dusky brown, the primaries externally washe
the latter colour ; tail green, bl

S of the neck; rest of under
and chest minutely Spotted with gree
a few tiny Spots of the latter colour; under wing-coverts yellowish buff, the e
with green. Total length 9:3 inches, culmen haley wing 5:05, tail 3°5, t
| The Plate represents an adult bird of the natural size,

n, the flanks also with
dge of the wing washed
arsus 1°55,