238 DICRTTKIDiE. 



the outer tail-feathers bhick ou the inner web ; lores, sides of face, 

 and undcrparts purplish black, with a slight gloss, the plumes of the 

 lower throat and fore neck tipped with steel-green ; flanks silky 

 grey. Total length 11 inches, culmen 1-35, wing 5'4, tail 5-2, 

 tarsus 1-0 5. 



Young. Much duUer than the adult and with less gloss ; under- 

 neath greyer, the feathers edged with dull whitish, the under wing- 

 coverts also tipped with white. 



Ilab. Lombock and Flores. 



(/, b. S 2 f*-"!- sk. Lombock. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 



c. Ad. sk. Lombock. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



d. c? juv. sk. Lombock. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Flores. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]' 



4. Chibia atrocaerulea. 



Dicrurus atrocfenileus, Graij, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 354 ; Fiitsch, Neu- 

 Guinea, p. 171 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 285 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civic. Geiwv. vii. p. 772. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above velvety black, 

 with only a very slight purplish gloss ; crown of head metallic steel- 

 black ; neck-hackles not very pronounced, and only slightly glossed 

 with metallic purple ; wings metallic steel-black, with a purplish 

 gloss on the lesser wing-coverts, the primaries black, with a slight 

 metallic lustre ; upper tail-coverts purplish black, with a very slight 

 metallic gloss on the edge of the feathers ; tail-feathers black, glossed 

 ou the outer web with metallic steel-black, scarcely perceptible on 

 the outermost feather ; lores, feathers round the eye, and sides of 

 face deep velvety black, as also the under surface, on which a faint 

 purplish lustre can be traced ; the feathers of the lower throat very 

 slightlv, the fore neck and chest rather more conspicuously, tipped 

 with dull metallic green ; under wing-coverts black, with an indi- 

 stinct gloss of metallic purple; biU and wings black; ii'is red. 

 Total length 12-S inches, culmen 1-3, wing 6-45, tail 6-3, tarsus 1. 



Hah. Batchian and Gilolo. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. (Type 



of species.) 

 h. Ad. sk. Gilolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



Subsp. a. Chibia carbonaria. 



Dicrurus carbonarius, Bp. Consp. i. p. 352 (ex Milll. MS. in Mus. 

 Luyd.., descr. 7mlla) ; Gray, Cat. B. ^-c. Neiv Guinea, p. 33 ; Finsch, 

 Neu Guinea, p. 1 / 1 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 285 ; Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 772. 



Adult. General colour above velvety black, with a purplish gloss, 

 not very strongly developed, but visible on the neck-hackles and 

 some of the dorsal plumes ; wings metallic steel-black, with a very 

 slight greenish cast ; quills black, the primaries externally steel- 

 green, the inner secondaries entirely so, like the wing-coverts ; 



