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38. Phonygammus keraudreni hunsteini Sharpe. 



Phonjigama Hiinxtdnt Sharpe, Jourit. Linn. S'n'. London xvi. p. 442 (1882 — '' East Cape." The 

 locality must be wrong, like so many others, because Goldie's and Ilunstein's birds were not 

 properly labelled from the beginning). 



Manucodiii l/iom.ioni Tristram, Ilii-i 188'j. p. 554 (Fergusson Island). 



(? ; Mts. of Goodenough Island, 28. iv. 1913. (No. 5633, A. S. Meek Ooll.) 

 " Iris dull red ; bill and feet black." Wing 190 mm. 



39. Dicrurus bracteatus propinquus Tristr. 



[Dicmriis hrai'tetdus Gould, Pror. Zaol. .So/-. London 1842. p. 132 — ("The eastern and northern 

 coasts of Australia." Mathews has — Noe. Zml. 11111. p. 437— accepted Queensland as the 

 typical locality.)] 



Cluhia iiropinriua Tristram, Ibis, 1889. p. 55() (Fergusson Island). 



7c??; Mts. of Goodenough Island, April and May 1913. (Xos. 5545, 557U, 

 5641, 5649, 5650, 5654, 5677, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



The forms of this Drongo are not quite clear yet. Formerly we called the 

 birds from the D'Entrecasteanx group Chihia carbnnnria (Nov. Zool. 1896, p. 230) 

 and Dicrurus laemostictus {Nov. Zool. 1903, p. 110), though, in the latter case, 

 being doubtful if it was separable from l>. carboiiarius of New Guinea, and 

 uniting it with the form from the New Britain group. Now it seems to us that 

 the birds from the latter island (/>. laemostictus Scl.) have larger bills, while 

 those from Goodenough Island and Fergusson are more greenish, less purplish, 

 than the Papuan carhonarius. All these forms being subspecies of the Australian 

 bracteatus, we tentatively accept the name D. bracteatus propinquus for the birds 

 from the D'Entrecasteanx Islands. We hope soon to receive specimens from 

 New Britain or New Ireland, our series from there being, so far, rpiite inadequate. 

 QLiXov. Zool. 1903, p. 110. 



This collection can hardly be representative, as we know at least sixty-three 

 species from Fergusson ; but it is, nevertheless, a very interesting little lot. 



