by the B.O.U. Expedition to Dutch Neiv Guinea. 91 



of tlie genus Cracticus : C. cassiciis, a black and white 

 species, and C giioijl, witli uiiit'onn black plumage. Both 

 are much like their well-knowu Australian representatives, 

 but smaller. C. cassicus was much the commoner bird, and 

 was generally observed feeding on berries and fruits in high 

 trees, its actions being very Crow-like. 



The Pachyeephaline group of birds allied to the true 

 Shrikes is represented by half-a-dozen species, two of which 

 proved to be undescribed : a grey form with a white throat, 

 Fachycephula appruximcms , and a black species with a white 

 breast and belly, P. dorsa/is [O. -Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxix. 

 p. 20 (1911)]. Brilliantly coloured orange-yellow and 

 black, or orange-yellow and grey, species are represented 

 by Fachycepkula aurea and Pachychare flavogrisea. 



Family Puionopid.e — TVood-Shrikes. 



This group is represented by Rhectes cristatus and R. ferru- 

 gineus in which both sexes are rufous, and by 7^. niyripectus 

 with the sexes diti'erent, the male being partly black and 

 partly chestnut. Pinarolestes megarJiyncliUS, an allied 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 binned at the edges and running into the 

 ground-colour. These eggs have on several occasions been 

 jjalined otf on travellers in British New Guinea as eggs of 

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

 resemble. 



Family Artamid^ — Swalloiv-Shrikes . 



These birds, which closely resemble Swallows in their 

 mode of life, are represented by one species only, Artamus 

 leucopygialis, a grey bird vvith 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 

 tlie sands. 



