ALURCEDUS BUCCOIDES (Temm.).

Barbet-like Cat-bird.

Kitta buccoides, Temm. Pl. Col. ii. pl. 575 (1835).—Id. Tabl. Méth. Pl. Cole a pe 10 (1840).—Rosenb. Nat.
Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xxv. p. 236 (1863).—Id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 122,

Cissa buccoides, Gray, Gen. B. iii., App. p- 14 (1849),

Ptilorhynchus buccoides, Bp. Consp. Av. i. p- 370 (1850).—Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1862

ee & Mag. N. H. (3) xi. p. 57 (1863).—Schl. Mus. P

Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 49 (1871)

Ptilonorhynchus buccoides, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lose 9 4 ee (6
Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 173 (1865).—Gray, andele ean
Archip. p. 554 (1879).—Musschenbr. Dagboek
Wien, 1885, p. 54.

Ailuredus buccoides, Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pl. 41 (1875).—Sal

» p. 165.—Id. Ann.
ays-Bas, Coraces, p. 118 (1867).—Id. Nederl.

at. B. New Guin. pp. 37, 59 (1859).—
p. 294, no. 4337 (1869 ).—Rosenb. Malay.
» pp. 211, 240 (1883).—Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver.

vad. Ann. Mus. Genov. vii. p- 780 (1875).

Aluredus buccoides, Elliot, Monogr. Parad. pl. 36 (1873).—Scl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 697.—Salvad. Ann,
Mus. Genov. ix. p. 193 (1876), x. p- 152 (1880).—D’Alb. et Salvad. op. cit. xiv. p. 114 Cs) —
D’Alb. Nuova Guin. pp. 581, 588 (1880).—Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, il, De Ovo (1881).—Sharpe, CEE.
B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 386 (1881).—Nehrk. J. f.0. 1885, p. 34.—Guillem. Proc. Zool. Soc, 1885, p. 657.—
Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p. 167 (1891).—Madarasz, Aquila, i. p. 91 (1894),

 

Tuts is one of the smaller species of Cat-bird, and is further

distinguished by the strongly marked spotting
of the breast and the very distinct white streaking

on the nape, and by the absence of white tips to the
tail-feathers,
The first specimen was procured by Solomon Muller at Lobo,

in Triton Bay in New Guinea, and it seems
to be somewhat widely distributed in

that great island, for Count Salvadori gives

thie following localities
from which he has examined specimens—Sorong, Dorey

» Mansinam, Andai, and Warbusi.
was obtained in these places by Dr. Beccari, Signor D’Albertis, and by the hunt
Mr. Bruijn. D’Albertis also met with this Cat-bird on the Fly |

procured a specimen during his expedition to the

The species
ers emploved by the late
tiver, and the late Mr. Fenichel likewise

Finisterre Mountains, in German New Guinea, ata place
called Kulikumana, on the 29th of August, 18922 Dr. von Madardsz Was so kind
specimen for examination. — It seemed to differ slightly in the
of 42. buccoides in the British Museum; but af

as to send me this
colour of the head from our series of skins
ter the remarks of Count Salvadori on the variation in
the colour of the crown in the present species

» I could not regard it as belonging
Certainly it was not ZZ. geislerorum,

of which specimens were also sent by Fenichel.
Besides the above-mentioned places in New Guinea, examples of JZ. buccoides are in the Leiden
Museum from the islands of Salawati, Waigiou, and Batanta, where they
Dr. Bernstein, Von tosenberg’s Statement that it is
as already pointed out by Count Salvadori.

Nothing has yet been recorded conce
found it feeding on fruits.

to anything else.

Were procured by the late
also found in the Aru Islands must be erroneous,

rning the habits of this Cat-bird, beyond the fact that D’Albertis

The following description
Birds? ==
Adult.

is a copy of that given by me in the sixth volume of the ‘Catalogue of
Above bright Srass-green, the wings
bright green, the secondaries slightly shaded
tipped with yellowish buff; tail duller
feathers; crown of head olive-brown,
with yellowisl

uniform with the back ; primaries blackish, externally
with bluish on the outer web, the innermost minutely
green, narrowly tipped with white on the inner web of the outer
the hinder neck, as well as the sides of the latter, black, streaked
1 buff, this colour occupying the basal part of the feather, the black confined to
sub-terminal spot; the mantle also slightly mottled with yellowish

also tipped with black;

a large
buff, with which many of the feathers
lores scantily feathered with brown plumelets ;

a bare space; sides of face buff, everywhere mottled with black spots,
part of the ear-coverts e

are barred, some few being
eyering buf; behind the eye
the hinder ntirely black, the cheeks also somewhat spotted with white; throat
bufly white, throat spotted with black rest of under surface nght tana fai
spotted with ovate black markings, these spots less on the abdomen and absent

tie chin) and) lower
every where largely

     
  
  
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
   
     
   
  
    
     
   
  
   
   
    
   
   
   
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
  
 
   
 
   
  
    
    
    
   
  
   
 

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