mMECTES LE UCORHYNCHUS, G
White-billed Wood-Shrike.

Rectes leucorhynchus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 430.—Finsch,
k. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Ixix. p. 206 (1874).—Rosenb. Malay. Arch. p. 395 (1879

Colluricincla leucorhyncha, Gray, Hand-list B. i. p. 386, no. 5838 (1869).

Pseudorectes leucorhynchus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. iii. p. 288 (1877).

Rhectes leucorhynchus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xy. p. 43 (1879)—Id. Orn. Papuasia
ii. p. 206 (1881).

 

concerning its habits.
The following description is copied from the British Museum ‘ Catalogue of Birds ’:—
Adult male. Above rufous brown, the rump and the tail a little brighter, the crown

coverts uniform with the breast ; bill yellowish white. Total length 12 inches, culmen
tail 5-2, tarsus 1°5.”

British Museum.

 

the Moluccas; but the original specimens, now in the British Museum, were obtained by

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Neu-Guinea, p. 170 (1865).—Meyer, Sitz.

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e delle Molucche,

Tuis Wood-Shrike is easily distinguished from all the other Papuan members of the group by its white
bill and sombre coloration. It was originally described by the late Mr. George Gray, from Gagie Island, in

Mr. Wallace in

Waigiou, and we do not understand Mr. Gray’s authority for the occurrence of the species in Gagie. It
has since been obtained by Dr. Beccari both in Waigiou and in Batanta. Nothing has yet been recorded

and sides of the

head slightly darker ; wing-coverts like the back, but a little darker brown ; quills dark brown, externally
dark rufous brown; under surface of body deep rufous fawn-colour, the throat paler ; under wing- and tail-

1:15, wing 5:7,

The Plate represents two specimens of this bird, of the natural size, and is drawn from individuals in the

[R. B. S.J