SIS NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXI. 1914. 



Nov. Zool. xix. p. 311. The oldest generic iiaine is Aplonis, and not Lamprocorax ; 

 the two genera are nut separable, and we have long ago united them, thongh 

 under the name Calomis. Cf. Xok. Zool. 1913, pp. 114-116, among others. 



49. Mino dumontii kreflfti (Scl.). 



[.l/iHo dumonlii Lesson, Vuij. Coiju., Atlas PI. 25 (182(j) and text vol. i. p. (!52 (1828 — Dorey, 



New Guinea).] 

 Mino krefti Sclater, Piw. Zool. Hoc. London 18G9. pp. 120, 124, 12G, pi. ix. (Solomon Islands). 



7 c? ? ad., Rook Island, Jnly 1913. (No.s. 5741, 5742, 5704, 5772, 5842, 5843, 

 5883, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris golden yellow or cadmium, same as around eye ; bill and feet chrome 

 yellow or bright yellow, same as skin around eye." 



50. Dicrurus bracteatus laemostictus >Scl. 



Cf. Nov. Zool. 1914 (ante^) p. 9. 



Dicrurus laemostictus Sclater, Pror. Zool. Sue, London 1877 p. 101 (New Britain). 



1 ''c?," 5 "?," Rook Island, July and August 1913. (Nos. 5743, 5750, 5907, 

 5921, 5922, 5936, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris dark red ; bill and feet black." 



In addition to what we said above (p. 9), we now find that the birds from 

 the New Britain group of islands have long purplish blue hackles on the sides of 

 the neck, which are only indicated in one ofonr prop iiiqu us from the D'Entrecasteanx 

 Islands, and developed in one other, though not as long as in all adult laemostictus. 

 The two forms are therefore well distinguishable. 



51. Corvus coronoides insularis Heinr. 



CorvHs insularis Heinroth, Journ. f. Orn. 1903. p. 69 (Terra typica : " Gazelle-Halbinsel," i.e. New 



Britain). 

 Corvus orru insularis Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1903 p. 90. 



i ? ad. Rook Island, 21. vii. 1913. (Nos. 5767, 5768, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 Iris in both sexes " white " ! Both specimens are moulting some of their 

 quills, but the male already exceeds Heinrotb's ruling, who says that the wings 

 of C. insularis are always under 310 mm., as its wing-measurement is 311 mm. 

 There is no doubt that insularis is a separable subspecies, though the wings will no 

 doubt vary like those of other ravens. We have already pointed out the error of 

 including Celebes within the range of G. c. insularis, as the Celebes form is etKa 

 and not orru, which only differs from insularis in being generally larger. 



