14 CAMrOPHAGIDiE. 



sides of face black, ouly the chin, lores, and featliers above and 

 below the eye being lilack ; the under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 bufl'y white. Total length 1^ inches, culmcu i'Oo, wing G*3, tail 5*7, 

 tarsus 1. 



Hah. Timor gronp of islands. 



<t, b. d $'id. sk. Semao Island, Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. East Timor. A. It. Wallace, Esq. [C . 



d. S ad. sk, Timor. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.' . 



e. (S imm.sk. Island of Solor. A. 11. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



7. Artamides parvulus. 

 Graucalus parvulus, Salvad. Ann. Mus, Civic. Genov. xii. p. 324. 



Adult. General colour leaden grey ; frontal margin, sides of head, 

 and throat black, glossy ; qnills black, ashy below, the inner web 

 decidedly paler, but scarcely margined with grey ; the secondaries 

 on the outer web and the wing-coverts altogether grey, uniform with 

 the back ; under wing-coverts white ; two centre tail-feathors leaden 

 grey, the rest black, above leaden grey towards the base, the outer- 

 most marked with a small leaden-grey spot at the tip ; bill black ; 

 feet dusky. Total length 9-7 inches, culmcn 1-U, wing 5-5, tail 

 4-2r), tarsus 0-9. (Salvadon.) 



Ilab. Island of Halmahera, or Gilolo, in the Moluccas. 



This species, the type of which I have lately seen at Leiden, is 

 closely allied to A. pcrsonatus, but much smaller. 



8. Artamides floris. 

 Graucalus personatus, pt.. Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485. 



Adult [ma/e]. General colour above bluish slate-colour, tlie -wing- 

 coverts Hke the back ; bastard wing black ; primary-coverts blackish, 

 externally ashy grey witli a narrow margin of white : greater coverts 

 ashy grey, nari-owly edged with white ; tjuills blackisli, externally 

 washed with ashy grey and margined with white ; tail black, the 

 centre feathers washed with grey towards the base ; no black on the 

 forehead ; in front of the eye a triangular dusky spot ; feathers round 

 the eye blackish, a shade of black also extending over the eye ; 

 cheeks and entire under surface of body dark ashy grey, becoming 

 gradually lighter and purer grey on the breast ; the vent and under 

 tail-coverts pure white ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and inner 

 lining of quills also pure white. Total length 13 inches, culmen 

 1-15, wing 0*7, tail 5"7, tarsus 1'05. 



Adult [female^. Differs from the supposed male in being paler 

 grey ; the greater coverts and the quills externally edged with white, 

 narrower on the primaries ; lores and feathers on the side of the 

 face dusky, but not blackish as in the male ; lower abdomen, 

 vent, and under tail-eoverts, under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 T)ure white, the bicast and abdomen obscurely banded with dusky 



