340 ON THE BIEDS INHABITING [1875. 



Artamus one, the davker-colouicd species, which has hitherto borne the title of Artamus 



(Loxia) mchtJeucus, R. Forster (Descr. Anim. p. 272, no. 221, " New Caledonia ") ; and the other 

 the Javan form, and, as for that, the ludo-Malayan, Papuan, and Australian, Leptopteryx 

 Jencorhijnchus (Linn.), Horsf. (Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 244, " Java "). This assertion is not supplemented 

 by any stated evidence ; nor do they profess to have seen Philippine examples of the darker 

 species. The darker bird, A. melaleucus (R. Forster), is referred by Messrs. Hartlaub and Finsch 

 to Lanius manillensis, Brisson, and Sonnerat's Piegrieche dominiquaine and the subsequent 

 titles based on Brisson and Sonnerat's independent, separate, and original descriptions of that 

 Philippine bird ; and to it Drs. Hartlaub and Finsch apply the title of A. leucorhjnchus (Gm.), 

 ex Brisson, but which is reaUy a Linnsean title (/. c). 



The oldest title of the paler form they state to be Artamus leucorhynchus, Horsf. (nee 

 Gmelin !). The title, not being Horsfield's, cannot be retained, even if Messrs. Hartlaub and 

 Finsch can show that A. melaleucus also inhabits the Philippines ; and that of A. leucogaster, 

 Valenc. Mem. du Mus. vi. p. 27 (1820), would have to be adopted. I have never met with 

 specimens of any other than this latter species from the Philippines ; and I have no doubt that 

 from it Brisson and Sonnerat took their descriptions. True Loxia melalcuca, R. Forster, ex 

 New Caledonia, only differs from the widely spread Lanius leucorhynchus, Linn., in having the 

 Tr.Z. S. is. entire head almost black instead of ash-grey, by the throat being darker, and also the smoky 

 p. 175. V)rown of the back being many shades deeper. The species that is found in the Pelew Islands I 

 have never seen. 



CAMPEPHAGID^. 



Geaucalus, Cuvier. 



74. * Graucaltjs steiatus. (PI. XXX. fig. 1 in orig.) 



Choucas de la Kouvelle Guinee, D'Aiibent. PI. Enl. 620, ? vel 6 juv. 



Le Choucas de la Nouvelle Guinee f, MontbeiUard, Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 80 (1775). 



Corvus stnatus, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. p. 38, ex D'Aubeut. (1783). 



Corvus naow-Guineoe, Gm. S. N. i. p. 371, no. 28 (1788), ex MontbeiUard ; Lath. lud. Orn. 

 i. p. 15G, no. 14. 



Coracinafasciata, Vieill. J Nouv. Diet. viii. p. 8 (1817), ex D'Aubent. 



Ceblejjyris ])lumbea, Wagler, Syst. Av. Corvus, p. 322 (1827), ex Gm. 



Graucalus dussumieri. Lesson §, Tr. d'Orn. p. 349, ? vel 6 juv., "Manilla" || (1831); 

 Jacquin. &Pucheran,Voy. au Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 65, pi. 8. fig. 1, $ ,>V^ePucher., " Samboangan, 

 island of Mindanao ; " Puchcran, Archives du Mus. vii. p. 363. 



t MontbeiUard leaves it to be inferred that this title (involving, as it does, the origin of the type) was bestowed by 



D'Aubenton. 



+ This author pretends also to describe the female and the young male ; but it is impossible to determine what species 



he describes from. 



§ This title and the accompanying references are omitted in Dr. Hartlaiib's ' Monograph ' (J. f. 0. 1864, p. 444) ; 

 nor is it included in his valuable index to Puchcran's papers on the types in the Paris Museum {op. clt. 1855). Correctly 

 enough, however, only one species of the true Graucalus is enumerated by Dr. Hartlaub from the Philippines. 



11 Dr. Pucheran also states that Lesson's type came from Luzon. 



