1. ARTAMl'S. 9 



a. 5 ad.sk. Nii, Port de Fiance, New C'ale- J. Macyillivniy,Esq. [C.]. 



donia, June 2o, 1858. 



6. cJ ad. sk. Nil, May 13, ls58. J. Macgilllvray, Es<i. [C.]. 



c. J ad. sk. Isle of Pines, New Caledonia, Goidd Coll. 



Oct. 3, 1853 {J.McGillivray). 



d. 2 ad. sk. Noumea, New Caledonia, June Tweeddale Coll. 



I, 1877 (-£". L. Lm/ard). 



e. 5 ad. sk. Moindou, New Caledonia, Oct. Tweeddale Coll. 



II, 1881 {R L. Layard). 



f. c? ad. sk. New Caledonia. Tweeddale Coll. 



'y. S ad. sk. Api, New Hebrides. Voy. of H.M.S. ' Chal- 



lenger.' 

 h. Ad. sk. Lifu, Loyalty Islands. Rev. S. J. Whitmee [P.]. 



4. Artamus pelewensis. 



Artamus leucorLynchus, Harth 4" Finsch, P. Z. S. 1868, p. IIG, 1872, 

 p. 99; Finsch, Journ. Mus. Ciodeffr. viii. p. 18 (1875). 



Artamus, sp., Shavpe in Hotcley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 182 (1878). 



Artamus pelewen.sis, Finsch, Jotirn. Mus. Godeffr. Heft xii. p. 41 

 (187G) ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 739 ; Tioeedd. Ibis, 1878, p. 385. 



Adah. Similar to A. melanohnteus, but blacker above, and with 

 the whole of the sides of the face, neck, and throat black, as well 

 as the fore neck. Total length 7"5 inches, culmcn 0-85, wing 5'3, 

 tail 2-G, tarsus O'Go. 



Hub. Pelcw Islands. 



(I. Ad, sk. Pelew Islands (Cohen). Tweeddale Coll. 



5. Artamus mentalis. 



Langrayen de Viti, Hombr. ^- Jacq. Voy. Pole Slid, pi. 9. iis^. 1 

 (1843). 



Artamus mentalis, Jard. Ann. S,- May. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 174, pi. 

 \iii. (1845) ; JBp. Consp. i. p. 344 (1850) ; Cas-i. U. S. E.vpl. Fjvped., 

 Birds, p. 141 (1858) ; Gray, List B. Trop. Isl. Pacif. Ocean, p. 2.j 

 (1858) ; Finsch Sj- Hartl. Faun. Qentralpolyn. p. 84, tab. 1. tig. 5 

 (18G7); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 289, no. 4281" (1869) ; Layard, 

 P. Z. S. 1875, p. 434; id. Ibis, 1876, p. 392; Sharpie in Roivley\s 

 Orn. Misc. iii. p. 189 (1878) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. TV. 

 vii. p. 113 (1882). 



Ocypterus mentalis, Peale, U. S. Eipl. E.iped. 1848, p. 84, pi. 23. 

 fig. 2 ; Hartl. Arck.f. Natury. 1852, p. 98. 



Artamus vitiensis, Jacq. et Pucher. Voy. Pole Slid, Zool. iii. p. 73 

 (1853). 



Adult male. Above smoky black, the head scarcely any darker ; 

 scapulars uniform with the back ; lower rump and upper tail-coverfcs 

 pure white ; tail-feathers black, with a conspicuous spot of white at 

 the end of the inner web ; entire wing black ; sides of face and 

 throat black ; hinder cheeks, lower throat, and remainder of under 

 surface of body white, as well as the under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries ; sides of fore neck sooty brown; quills below dull ashy, 



