1. ARTAMIDES. 15 



grey. Total length 12-7 inches, culmen 1'15, whig 0-4, tail 5-4, 

 tarsus 1*1. 



Hah. Island of Flores. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Flores. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



U. Artamides caeriileigriseus. 



Campephaga cceruleogrisea, Gray, R Z. S. 1858, p. 179 ; id. Cat. B. 



Netc Guinea, p. 32 ; id. 1'. Z. S. 18(il, p. 435 ; Rosetib. J.f. 0. 1864, 



p. 121 ; Hartl. J. f. O. 18G5, p. 155 ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 171 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B.'i. p. 338, no. 5101. 

 Campephaga strenua, Schl. N. T. D. iv. p. 44 ; Sdnter, P. Z. S. 1873, 



p. 697; Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 211. 

 Grauealus streuuus, Salvad. Ann. Mtts. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 771, x. 



p. 136. 

 Grauealus caeruleogi'iseus, Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civic. Genov. xii, 



p. 324. 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above bluish grey, 

 brighter blue on the head, and especially on the forehead and over 

 the eyes; bastard wing, primary- coverts, and quills black, the 

 coverts edged with bluish grey, the secondaries blackish on the inner 

 web, bluish grey on the outer, the innermost secondaries entirely 

 bluish grey like the back ; two centre tail-feathers bluish grey, the 

 next on each side black, grey on the outer web, the remainder 

 black, bi'owuer at the tij^s of the outer web, where they incline to 

 whitish at the extreme end ; feathers in front of eye duskj', forming 

 a triangidar patch ; under surface of body bluish grey, a little duUer 

 than the back, the thighs brighter bluish grey ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries pale ochraceous fawn ; quUls ashy below, liglit fawn- 

 colour along the inner webs ; soft parts as in the male {D'Alhert'ts). 

 Total length 14-5 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 6'5, tail 6-5, tarsus 

 1-15. 



Adult mule (Atam, D'Alhertls). Differs from the female in being 

 rather richer blue-grey, especially about the head and face ; feathers 

 at base of forehead behind the nostrils, lores, and feathers in front of 

 the eye black, extending over the eye for more than half the latter ; 

 chin and a spot at base of lower mandible also black ; " biU and feet 

 black; iris chestnut" (D'Albertis). Total length 13 inches, wing 

 6'35, tail 0"3, tarsus 1-2. (il/»s. Civic. Genov.) 



Dr. Meyer procured a specimen at Eubi which seems to be 

 younger, as it has the tail-feathers tipped with bufly white, and has 

 the inner webs of the quills below pale fawn-buff. 



Hub. Aru Islands, North-western New Guinea, island of Jobi. 



rt. $ ad. sk. Aiu Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



(Type of species). 



10. Artamides temmiucki. 



C'el)lc]iyris toninnucki, S. Midlit\ I'trli. Xutaurl. Gvsvh. Lund- en 

 FoMoiA. p. 101. 



