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'^. Corvus orni l'>i>. 



Two 7/ialiS and one Jemak'. The iris is a "light wutery blue, with a whiter 

 outer ring." 



:>. Chibia carbonaria dejecta subsj). nov. 



Differs from Chibia mrboiuuia carbonaria in being constantly smaller, such 

 small specimens of C. c. carbonaria hardly ever occurring, excej)! now and then in 

 the southern parts of New Guinea and Arn, where a smaller race seems to live, — 

 back less velvety black, more glossy and with shining spangles. Dimensions of the 

 four males sent : wing 142 — 145, tail to tiji of outer rectrices 130 — 132, culmen 

 from base 32 — 33 mm. " Iris bright red ; feet and bill black." 



('. assimilis and lacmosticta are no doubt also subspecies of C. carbonaria. 



4. Calomis metallica (Temm.). 



These birds were frequent, and in Blarch they were in most beautiful plumage. 

 ■' Iris bright red ; feet and bill black." The female does not differ from tlie male. 

 The young, striped, greyish brown birds have the iris " naples yellow." 



5. Cracticus louisiadensis Tristr. 



Cracticus louisiadensis, Tristram in Ibis, 1889, p. loii. 



Strepera rosa-alba, De Vis in Report on British New Guinea 1889, Birds, p. 3. 

 (Cf. also Kothschild in Bull. B. 0. Club, Vol. VIII. p. T.) 



Two males and one female. The latter, which is, judging from some brownish 

 edges to the feathers of the back, immature, differs from the adult male in having 

 the wing about 2 cm. shorter, the white patches near the tips of the outer rectrices 

 not round, but almost triangular, covering a tiny tip of the outer and the entire tip 

 of the inner web for 30 mm. in the outermost rectrix. The white reaches farther 

 ujjwards in the middle of the abdomen, the upper wing-coverts have less white. 

 Iris of ail three specimens brown. Feet light bluish slate-colour. Bill slaty blue, 

 with black tip. ' 



This bird is a Cracticus and not a Strepera. 



'i. Pachycephala fortis Gadow (? subsp.). 



There is quite a series from Sudest Island. They differ mostly from P. fortis 

 from Fergusson and Goodenongh Islands in the grey crown being less defined, the 

 stripes on the throat being more developed, the throat and middle of abdomen being 

 more whitish, the breast-band less defined and less greyish. None of these 

 characters, however, is constant enough to justify specific separation. The wing is 

 often as long as in the form which I called P. fortis trobriandi. The differences 

 between P. fortis from Fergusson and trobriandi seem doubtful. The wings 

 (if till' specimens from Sudest Island measure asfollows : adnli males li)0 — 101 mm., 

 adult /empales 92-94 mm. 



