438 dtcrurid.t;. 



3. Norlh Queeuslaiid, 22ud Dec. W. Eadcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 3. Noitli Queensland, 30th Dec. W. Ivadclitfe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



3. Somerset, Cape York, N. Queens- C. A. Barnard, Esq. [C.]. 



laud, 31st Dec. 



4. Somerset, 1st Jan. C. A. Barnard, Esq. [0.]. 



Dicruropsis carbonaria {Bonap.). 



Chibia carbonaria, Skarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 238 (1877) ; Rothsch. 



S) Hartevt, Nov. Zoul. iii. p. 236 (1896). 

 Dicruropsi.s carbonaria, Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 177 (1881); Sliarpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 559 (1909) ; Nehrk. Eat. Eiersamnd. p. 354 (1910). 



Two eggs of the Papuan Drongo are of a somewhat long oval 

 shape, rather pointed at the smaller end, and very slightly glossy. 

 One has the ground white sparingly spotted all over with deep 

 chocolate-brown and lilac-grey : the other has the ground pinkish- 

 white, more densely marked with light purplish-brown and lilac- 

 grey. In both eggs the markings are rather more numerous 

 towards the larger end. They measure respectively 1-15 by '8 ; 

 and 1"1 by -76. 



Dr. Hartert describes other specimens collected by Meek as 

 having tlie ground creamy-white spotted with larger patches of 

 brownish-l)rick-red and purplish-grey, so no doirbt all the different 

 types laid by Chibia hottentotta would be found in a larger series of 

 eggs of the present species. 



1. FerguRSon I., N.E. New Guinea, Crowley Bequest. 



1st Dec. (A. 8. Meek). 

 1. Fergussou I., 1st Dec. (A. S. M.). Crowley Bequest. 



Dicruropsis laemosticta (Sd.). 



Cliibia Ifemosticta, Shurpe, Cat. Binh B. M. iii. p. 241 (1877). 

 Dicruropsis Ifemosticta, Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 174('1881): Skarpe, 

 Hund-l. V. p, 559 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eicrsamml. p. 354 (1910). 



An egg said to be that of the New Britain Drongo is much like 

 some of the eggs of D. hracteafa described above. It is pinkish- 

 Avhite, spotted and scrolled with various shades of chocolate-brown 

 and blotched and clouded with lilac-gre)' all over the shell. It 

 measures 1*18 by 'S'S. 



1, [New Britain] [Nehrkorit Cull.). Crowley Bequest. 



Dicruropsis borneensis, Sharpe. 



(Plate XX. tig. 8.) 



Chibia borneensis, Skarpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 246; id., Ibi.s, 1889, p. 187 



UlcGret/ur, Manual Philipp. Birds, p. 707 (1909). 

 Dicruropsis borneensis, Skarpe, Hand-l. v. p. 560 (1909). 



