102 LANIID^. 



6. [ 2 ] ad. sk. Tasmania. J. Gould, Esq. [CI. 



c. Imm. sk. Ta>)mania. J. Goukl, Esq. [C.]. 



<Z. Imm. sk. Tasmania. Ronald Guuu, Esq. [P.]. 



7. Cracticus mentalis. 



Cracticiia mentalis, Salvad. Sf D'Alb. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. 

 (1875), p. 82-4 ; Skarpe, Pr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 317 (1877), 4!)9 

 (1878), 687 (1879) ; Ramsmj, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. iii. p. 281 

 (1879), iv. p. 99 (1879) ; Salvad. Orn. Pap. e Molucche, ii. p. 189. 



Yanga mentalis, Ramsay, op. cit. i. p. 392 (1876). 



Cracticus spaldingi, Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 27 

 (1877). 



Somewhat like C. argenteus, but differing from this species in the 

 following points : — 1. The middle of the back in G. mentalis is 

 black ; 2. The deep black of the head extends down on the sides of 

 the head over the cheeks, and the base of the chin is also black ; 

 3. The black of the hind neck is separated from the middle of the 

 back, which is likewise black, by a large and broad white (although 

 indistinct in the middle) band, the black feathers being broadly 

 margined with white. "Bill grey, black towards the tip; legs and 

 iris black" {cV Albertis). Total length 10 inches, culmen 1-4, tail 

 4-4, tarsus 1'2. 



Ohs. In the British-Museum collection is another specimen, also 

 from Port Moresby, which has the same plumage as the specimens 

 described above, but wants the black spot at the chin, only a very 

 few blackish feathers being just visible in the angle between the 

 two under jaws. Besides this the specimen is somewhat smaller. 

 Total length 9 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 5-5, tail 4-2, tarsus 1-15. 



Young birds are like the adult, but show traces of the immature 

 plumage, having the head and hind neck brown, each feather 

 with whitish central streaks ; the white feathers of the sides of the 

 mantle and the upper tail-coverts tipped with brown ; the chin- 

 spot is developed. 



Hah. South-eastern New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. 0. C. Stone, Esq. [C.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Port Moresby. Kendal Broadbent [C.]. 



d. cJ juv. sk. Nieura. Dr. James [C.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Astrolabe Mountains. Mr. A. Goldie [C], 



