artamid.t;. 



y" Ad.sk. Port Essingtoii. Capt. Chambers [P.]. 



^", <o". Ad. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey,Esq.[P.]. 



a 9 ad. sk. Perou's Peninsula, Shark Voy. of H.M.S. 



Ba\,'Sla.Yl85S{Dr.E0njrier). ' Herald.' 



b. cJ ad. sk. Aru Islands. Wallace Coll. 



2. Artamus maximus. 



Artanuis maximus, Meijer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 203 (1874)_; 

 8cl. Ibifi, 1874, p. 417 ; Beeeart, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. 

 p. 709 (187o) f Gould, B. N. Gnin. iv. pi. 19 (1878) ; Sharpe in 

 Rowlet/s Orn. Misc. iii. p. 188 (1878) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic: 

 Genov xv. p. 39 (1879) ; id. Orn. Paptiasia e delle Molucche, ii. 

 p. 172(1881) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 635. 



Adult male. General colour above deep black ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts white ; wings and tail-feathers black, the latter very 

 narrowly bordered with white ; sides of head and neck, entire 

 throat and fore neck deep black, like the back ; remainder of the 

 body underneath pure white ; under wing-coverts white, the outer- 

 most of the lesser series black ; quills ashy below. Total length 

 7-5 inches, calmeu 0-8, wing 6-3,. tail 2-8, tarsus 0-75. 



ffab. N.W. New Guinea. 

 a. (S ad. sk. Arfak Mountains, M. Leon Laglaize [C], 



3. Artamus melanoleucus. 



Loxia melaleuea, Forster, Icon. ined. 49; id, Descr. Anim. p. 272 



(1844). 

 Leptopteryx melaleuea, Wayler, Syst. Av., Leptopteryx, sp. 1 (1827). 

 Ocypterus berardi, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 538 (1854). 

 Artamus melaleucus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 163; id. Cat. B. Trop. 



Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 23 (1859); Finscli, P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 739? 



Sharpe in Boiulei/s Orn. Misc. iji. p. 188 (1878) ; Finsch, Eep. 



Voy. 'Challenger'; Zool. ii. p. 55 (1881) ; E. L. ^- L. C. Layard^ 



Ibis, 1878, pp. 256, 273, 1880, p. 226, 1882, pp. 510, 543 ; Tristr. 



Ibis, 1879, pp. 183, 192. 

 Artamus melanoleucus, 6i-ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 289, no. 4280 (1869), 



Adult male. General colour above sooty brown ; the whole of 

 the head and mape, sides of the head and entire throat black ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts pure white ; scapulars like the back ; wing 

 slaty black, the quills greyish along the inner web; tail-feathers 

 black, narrowly fringed with white at the ends ; remainder of the 

 under surface of the body white, as well as the axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts : " bill blue, the tip black ; legs greyish black ; iris 

 dark brown " {E. L. Layard). Total length 7'2 inches, culmeis 

 0-75, wing 5-2, tail 2-8, tarsus 0-6. 



Achdt female. Similar to the male ; the head browner and not 

 so distinctly capped. Total length 6-2 inches, wing 5-15, tail 27, 

 tarsus 0-65. 



Hah. New Caledonia, Lojalty Islands, New Hebrides. 



