1. ARTAMIDES. 17 



Graucalus atrieeps, Up. Consp. i. p. .354 ; Haiti. J.f. 0. 1804, p. 4.37; 



Wahlen, Tr. Z. 8. viii. p. (J8. 

 Coracina atrieeps, Giebel, Otm. T/ies. i. p. 774. 



Adult male. General colour above light slat}- grey, paler on the 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard 

 plumes black : primary-coverts and quills black, narrowly edged with 

 ashy grey ; secondaries black, the outer webs grey with a narrow 

 margin of lighter ashy grey ; two centre tail-feathers dark ashy 

 brown with black tips, the rest of the feathers black slightly tipped 

 with ashy, the outer one most broadly and with an inner margined 

 line of whitish ; entire head and neck all round black, occupying the 

 chest below, and extending a little way onto the mantle above; 

 breast light bluish grey ; entire abdomen and under tail-coverts pure 

 white, tlie flanks washed with light bluish grey ; thighs bluish grey ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; quills ashy below, 

 white along the inner webs. Total length 12-5 inches, culmen 1-1, 

 wing (J'45, tail 5-6, tarsus 1. 



Uab. Ceram, ? Celebes. 



a, b. S ad. sk. Ceram. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [CI. 



e. Jim. ? sk. N. Ceram. A. R. WaUace, Esq.,[C.]. 



13. Artamides bicolor. 



CeblepjTis bicolor, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 278; S. Millkr, Verh. 



Xatuttrl. Geschied. Land- en Volkenk. p. 191. 

 Campephaga bicolor, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 28.3; id. P. Z. S. 1860, 



p. .3.54; Finsch, Neu-Gninea, p. 172; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 337! 



no. .5092. 

 Graucalus bicolor, Bp. Consp. i. p. 3o4. 

 Artamides bicolor, Hartl. J.f. O. 1865, p. 171 ; Waldeti, Tr. Z. S. 



viii. p. 70 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Chic. Genov. vii. p. 658 ; Briiggem. 



Ahhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 72. 



Adult male. General colour above black with a slight steel-green 

 gloss ; wings black, also glossed with steel-green on the outer webs ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts pure white ; tail black, the 

 outer feathers tipped with white, the base of aU the feathers white, 

 decreasing in extent towards the outermost, where the white is con- 

 fined to the inner web ; lores, feathers below the eye, and the ear- 

 coverts black, the two latter parts varied with white spots ; cheeks 

 and entire under surface of body pure -white, including the under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries and the inner webs of the quills. Total 

 length 12-6 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 6-7, tail 5-2, tarsus 0-95. 



Adxdt female. Differs from the male in being grey above instead 

 of black, and in having the throat aud breast grey.' Total length 

 12-3 inches, culmen M, wing 6-8, tail 5-3, tarsus 1. 



A younger male, also from ilenado, differs from the male described 

 above by being washed with grey, the secondaries broadly edged 

 with white, and the tail-feathers tipped with white. Total length 

 11-7 inches, culmen 105, wing 6'5, tail 5-2, tarsus 0-95. 



Dr. Meyer procured an undoubtedly young bird at Limbotto which 



