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? Ptilonorhynchus melanotis (nec Gray), Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Neder]
Salvadori).—Id. J. f. O. 1864, p- 122 (t.).
| Ptilorhynchus melanotis, pt. (nec Gray), Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iy, p- 51 (1871),
Ailuredus melanotis (nec Gray), Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, Pp. 697.—Hlliot, Monoor, Parad., Intr
(1873, pt.).—Sclater, Ibis, 1874, p. 416. :
Ailuredus arfakianus, Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Ixix. p. 82 (1874).—Sclater, Ibis,
Gould, B. New Guinea, i. pl. 40 (1875).—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov.
p. 151 (1877).—Id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p- 99.—D’Al
Ptilorhynchus arfakianus, Giebel, Thes. Orn. iii. p-. 370 (1877).
Ptilonorhynchus arfakianus, Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 554 (1879).—Musschenb
(1883).—Rosenb. Mitth. orn. Ver, Wien, 1885, p. 54.
Atluredus arfakianus, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, p. 673 (1881).—Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus

. Vi. p. 384 (1881).—
D’Hamony. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1886, p. 511.—Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia, ii. p: 166 (1890).

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Tuts is a small form of 2. melanotis of Gray, which inhabits the Aru Islands and the Fly River in South-
eastern New Guinea. The Arfak Cat-bird is, however, a slightly smaller bird than 4. medanotis, with a
somewhat blacker head and a black band on the nape. The throat also appears blacker than in the Aru
bird, by reason of the broader black margins to the feathers.

All the specimens at present known have come from the Arfak Mountains, where they have been found
by D’Albertis, Beccari, and the hunters employed by Dr. A. B. Meyer and the late Mr. Bruijn. Count
Salvadori had eight specimens before him when he wrote his ‘Ornitologia della Papuasia,’ and he considers
the species to be quite distinct from the Black-cheeked Cat-bird from Aru. Some of the females had the
fore-neck less black than in the males, and in all his series the fulvous spots on the crown varied considerably
In size, but in one female bird they were especially small and of a reddish-buff colour. A very young
female had all the feathers on the lower parts of a soft texture and a brown colour, the upper parts, wings,
and tail being of the same colour as in the adult birds. :

All references to 42. melanotis from New Guinea, excepting from the Fly River district, doubtless refer to
AE. arfakianus, ;

Professor Schlegel mentions some specimens of a Cat-bird, collected by Hoedt in the Island of ne:
and refers them to Z. melanotis, but Gount Salvadori considers that they are more likely to belong to
4: arfakianus or to an undescribed species. ‘che gaeNene

The Plate represents the specimen procured by D’Albertis in the Arfak MoS It is the same _
which he lent to the late Mr. Gould for illustration in the ‘Birds of New Guinea.’

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