ALURGDUS JOBIENSIs

Jobi-Island Cat-bird.

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Miluredus jobiensis, Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iv. p. xxvi (1895),

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Tus species has been described by the Hon. Walter Rothschild from
Island of Jobi by the late Mr. Bruijn’s hunters.

museum, and at first sight it looks

a specimen collected in the
type-specimen in Mr. Rothschild’s

and has the hinder neck much

I have examined the
very distinct from arfakianus,
mottled with buff, with the blackish shade ove

tspreading the throat ;
the Rothschild museum which appear to

me to be intermediate.
The following is Mr. Rothschild’s description :—* This
Ramsay, from British New Guinea, but shows
is black, uniformly spotted with buffish yellow,
occiput so conspicuous in 7. melanocephalus.
Ear-coverts consistin

but there are other specimens in
species is nearest to AZ melanocephalus of
sufficient differences to justify its separation. The head
band on the sides of the
Upper neck and back brownish buff, with black margins.
in its three nearest allies ; but this
y marked area of pale feathers surrounding

and does not show the black

g of the large patch of bristly feathers found
patch passes straight into the black of the throat, without an
it, as in ZZ. melanotis, AZ. melanocephalus, and Al. arfakianus
Coverts not very distinct and of a dusky buff colour.
black, with a small central buff spot in each
and 4, melanoc phalus these feathers

- The pale spots on the tips of the wing-
Throat, breast, and uppermost part of abdomen
feather, while in 42. melanotis (from the Aru Islands)
are buff or whitish, with narrow black borders. The breast is
much greener in 4. arfakianus from Mt. Arfak.
dusky margins, shaded here and there with green.

but the feathers on the sides of the neck
nearly lost their dark margins.

Lower abdomen and under tail-coverts buff with
In all other respects most similar to Z£. melanocephalus,
just behind the ear-coverts are almost uniform buff, having
Culmen 1°5 inch, wing 6°5, tail 5-4, tarsus 1:65.”

I have not considered it necessary to give a figure of this species.

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