( 23o ■) 



4. Phonygama hunsteini h^haipe ( = Manucodia thomsoni Tiistr.). 



PVrgusson. Tristram {Ihis, 1889, p. 554) was the first to puljlisli the proper 

 locality for this rare bird, but Sharpe's short description has precedence. The 

 tail is strongly hen-tail-shaj)ed in the old 'male, less so in the female, and hardly 

 perceptibly in very young birds. The webs of the central rectrices in the fully adult 

 male stand nearly perpendicular at the tip, but thev are not twisted so far as to open 

 again, as they are in Manucodia comrii, which Sharpe placed in a special genus by 

 itself, calling it Eucorax. " The iris is red." The female does not perceptibly differ 

 in colour, but is a little smaller than the male; wing in the female 180, in the male 

 186 mm. The young birds are all over black, with a steel-blue gloss, but without 

 any green or purple, the head being uniform with the rest of the uiiper surface. 



Mr. Meek met wdth this species in the hills, but seldom below 1500 feet. 



w. i;. 



5. Paradisea decora Salv. & (jodm. 

 From Fergusson Island. " Iris yellow in both sexes." Mr. Basil H. Thomson 

 (Ibis, 1889) says that this species only inhabits Jlount Maybole, in the north of 

 Fergusson Island ; but Meek never was there. lie found it not rare, though by no 

 means very numerous, on the hills of 8outh Fergusson, from aliout 1500 feet 

 upwards. W. L'. 



6. Calornis metallica (Temm.). 



Fergusson Island. " Iris red." Like specimens from New Guinea. 



Some eggs, said to belong to this species, were found on Kiriwina, Trobriands ; 

 but no skin was sent with them. As, however, Mr. Meek is well acquainted with this 

 species from his collecting in Queensland, Fergusson Island, and other places, and as 

 the eggs agree with eggs of this species from other places, there can be little doubt 

 about their identity. E. If. 



7. Cracticus cassicus (Bodd.). 



Fergusson and Trobriands. The extent of black and white on the back varies 

 very much, /ev/ia^es and young birds having the back nearly quite black, old JuaZes 

 white with a black patch in the middle. Nests, containing clutches of two and three 

 eggs, were found from September to January. The eggs are ovate, come more 

 pointed than others, and vary much in colour. They are pale olive, brownish olive, 

 bluish olive-green, marked with faint patches of dark olive-brown or Ijrown and some 

 small blackish brown spots, mostly more numerous near the broader end. They 

 measure 32'5 to 33 : 24 to 26 mm. F. H. 



8. Pachycephala dubia Kams. 

 Fergusson Island. " Iris blackish." 



9. Pachycephala fortis (iadow. 



tJadow, Cat. B. VIII. p. 3(19 (Addenda). 



Both sexes, nests, and eggs from Fergusson Island. Iris ilark hazel. 1 have 

 compared our specimens with the type oi P. forlis in the British Museum, and found 

 no ditl'ereuces. This is the more to be wondered at as the birds from the little 

 Trobriand group differ from those from Fergusson. Hereafter I shall describe the 

 differences between the two forms. Two nests are quite alike. They consist of dry 



