438 DTCRURID^E. 



3. North Queensland, 22nd Dec. W. Radcliffe Saundero, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 3. North Queensland, 30th Dec. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



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



land, 31st Dec. 



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



Dicruropsis carbonaria (Bonap.\ 



Chibia carbonaria, Sharps, Cat. Birds P. M. iii. p. 238 (1877) ; Rothsch. 



$ Hartert, Nov. Zool. iii. p. 236 (1896). 

 Dicruropsis carbonaria, Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 177 (1881) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. v. p. 559 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 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 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. 



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

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



Dicruropsis laemosticta (Scl.). 



Chibia liemosticta, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 241 (1877). 

 Dicruropsis laemosticta, Salvad. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 174(1881): Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 559 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 354 (1910). 



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

 some of the eggs of I). bracteata described above. It is pinkish- 

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

 and blotched and clouded with lilac-grey all over the shell. It 

 measures 1'18 by '83. 



1. [New Britain] (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Dicruropsis borneensis, Sharpe. 

 (Plate XX. fig. 8.) 



Chibia borneensis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 246 ; id., Ibis, 1889, p. 187 



McGreyor, Manual Philipp. Bird*, p. 707 (1909). 

 Dicruropsis borueensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 560 (1909). 



