438 DICRURID#. 
3. North Queensland, 22nd Dec. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
PSI 
3. North Queensland, 30th Dee. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 
Psy: 
3. Somerset, Cape York, N. Queens- C. A. Barnard, Esq. [C.]. 
land, 3lst Dec. 
4, Somerset, Ist Jan. C. A. Barnard, Esq. [C.]. 
Dicruropsis carbonaria (Bonap.). 
Chibia carbonaria, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B, M. iii. p. 238 (1877) ; Rothsch. 
§ Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 236 (1896). 
Dicruropsis carbonaria, Sa/vad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 177 (1881); Sharpe, 
Hand-l, v. p. 559 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Liersammil, 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 11 by -76. 
Dr. Hartert describes other specimens collected by Meek as 
having the ground creamy-white spotted with larger patches of 
brownish-brick-red and purplish-grey, so no doubt all the different 
types laid by Chibia hottentotta would be found in a larger series of 
eggs of the present species. 
1. Fergusson I., N.E. New Guinea, Crowley Bequest. 
Ist Dec. (4. 8S. Meek). 
1. Fergusson I, lst Dec. (A. 8. M.). Crowley Bequest. 
Dicruropsis lemosticta (Sc/.). 
Chibia lemosticta, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 241 (1877). 
Dicruropsis lemosticta, Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 174 (1881): Sharpe, 
Hund-l. v. p. 559 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eersammil. p. 854 (1910). 
An egg said to be that of the New Britain Drongo is much like 
some of the eggs of D. bracteata described above. It is pinkish- 
white, spotted and scrolled with various shades of chocolate-brown 
and blotched and clouded with hlac-grey all over the shell. It 
measures 1°18 by °83. 
1. [New Britain] (Nehriorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 
Dicruropsis borneensis, Sharpe. 
(Plate XX. fig. 8) 
Chibia borneensis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 246; 7d., Ibis, 1889, p. 187 
_— McGregor, Manual Philipp. Birds, p. 707 (1909). 
Dicruropsis borneensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 560 (1909). 
