On a new subspecies of the genus Pitohui Lesson, with an enumeration of the species of this genus in the collection of the Leyden Museum

It has already been observed by Salvadori ¹), that a specimen of Pitohui cerviniventris (Gray) from Waigeoe was brighter in colour on the undersurface than another from Batanta. The two specimens from the last-named locality in our collection, a male and a female, are also different from eleven specimens from Waigeoe and Ghemien (Garamen), an island south of the first. Though Rothschild and Hartert ²) state, that in the British Museum the Batanta-specimeus agree with those from Waigeoe (if correctly labelled), I find the differences in our specimens so striking, that I propose to separate the specimens from Batanta under the name of Pitohui cerviniventris pallidus, subsp. nov.