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yellow and grey species were represented by Pachycephala 

 aiirea and Pachy chare flavogrisea. 



FAM I L Y rRIONOPID.E — WO D -S H R 1 K ES. 



This group is represented by Rhectes cristaius and R. 

 ferrugineiis in which both sexes are rufous and by R. 

 nigripectiis with the sexes different, the male being partly 

 black and partly chestnut. Pinarolestes megarhynchus , 

 an aUied species with the sexes alike, is brown above and 

 dull rufous below. Some of these Wood-Shrikes lay 

 peculiar looking eggs of a long oval shape and large for 

 the size of the bird. The ground-colour is purplish- or 

 pinkish-grey with scattered spots or small blotches of 

 dark purplish-brown or maroon-brown, often blurred at 

 the edges and running into the ground-colour. These 

 eggs have on several occasions been palmed off on 

 travellers in British New Guinea as eggs of the Red 

 Bird-of-Paradise, which they do not in any way 

 resemble. 



FAMILY ARTAMID^ — SWALLOW-SHRIKES. 



These birds which closely resemble Swallows in their 

 mode of life are represented by one species only, Artamus 

 leucopygialis, a grey bird with the breast and rump white. 

 It was common along the coast, and was generally seen 

 either perched on some dead tree or skimming swiftly 

 over the sands. 



FAMILY r/iT/^Z//Z?yS— BABBLERS. 



We now come to the Timeline group of birds: of 

 these we may mention two striking-looking species of 

 Etipetes. One, E. nigricnssiis , with the plumage slate- 

 blue and the throat white, edged with black, was met 

 with on the Mimika; the other, E. pulcher, was only 



