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but it differs in the dimensions being somewhat smaller and darker in the colour. It is 

 also allied to Graucalus personatus (Mull.) from Timor; but it is larger, darker, and 

 also conspicuously different in the under wing-coverts, which are not white, but dark like 

 the rest of the plumage. 



In the British Museum I have seen a Graucahis, said to have been collected by 

 Wallace in the Sulu Islands, and wrongly named Graucalus teiumincki, which is very 

 much like the females from the Ki Islands, except that it is a little smaller. 



6. Lalage karu, Less. 



Lanius learn, Less., Voy. Coq. Atlas, pL xvi. (1826). 



Ceolepyris karu, Less., Voy. Coq. Zool., i. 2, p. 633 (d828) (type examined). 



Lalage karu, Hartl, Journ. f. Orn., 1865, p. 168.; Salv.nl., I'roe.-Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 87, et Ann. 



Mas. Civ. Gen., vol. xiv. p. 651. 

 Lalage leucometama, Sharpe, Cat., vol iv. p. 106. 



[Nos. 282, 283. Males. Eyes black. Stomach contained in the one seeds, in the 

 other insects.] 



Two specimens, one male (No. 282) fully adult, .with the upper parts shining 

 black, the under wing-coverts pure white, and the breast and the abdomen barred across ; 

 this is exactly like another specimen from Naiabui, collected by Signor D'Albertis and 

 marked "female" (?) (Ann. Mus. Civ. -Gen., vol. ix. p. 28, sp. 108, 187G). The second 

 specimen (No. 283) is also marked " male." It is not fully adult ; it has the upper parts 

 grey, and the under wing-coverts, as well as the underparts, tinged with reddish. 



I suspect that to the same species must be referred the Cebl&pyris rufiventris, Jaccp & 

 Pucher., and I question whether it really was from Baffles Bay. The type of this species, 

 examined by me in the Museum of Paris, agrees entirely -with two specimens from the 

 Arrou Islands, collected by Beccari, and which are exactly like the type of Lalage poty- 

 grammica, G. R. Gr. also from the Arrou Islands. 



7. Dicruropsis megalor?iis, G. R. Gr. 



Dicrurus megalomis, G. R Gr., Proe. Zool. Soc, 1858, pp. 199, 193, Ki Islands (type 



examined). 

 Clu'/iia nfijahirnU, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. iii. p. 212, No. 9 (1877). 

 Dicruropsis megalomis, Salvad., Proe. Zool. Soc., 1878, p. 8S, et Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., vol. xiv. 



p. 652. 



[Nos. 274, 275. Both females. Eyes red ; legs and bill black. Stomach contained 

 insects.] 



This bird and the other allied Austro-Malayan species have been united by Mr 

 Sharpe to the genus Chibia, Hodgs., the type of which (Chibia hottentotta, Linn.) has a 

 much longer and more acute bill, and is also very conspicuous for the tuft of silky hairs 



