88 COUNT T. SALVADORI ON THE [Jail. 15, 



7. DlCRUROPSIS MEGALORNIS (G. R. Gl - .). 



Dicrurus megalornis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 199, 193, 

 Ke Islands (type examined). 



Chibia megalornis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds in the Brit. Mus. iii. p. 242. 

 no. 9 (1877). 



[Nos. 274, 275. Both females: eyes red; legs and bill black; 

 stomach contained insects. — J. MJ] 



This bird and the other allied Austro-Malayan species have been 

 united by Mr. Sharpe to the genus Chibia, Hodgs., the type of 

 which, Chibia hottentotta (Linn.), has a much longer and more acute 

 bill, and is also very conspicuous for the tuft of silky hairs spring- 

 ing from the forehead — a feature which, among the Austro-Malayan 

 species, is only to be found in Dicrurus pectoralis, Wall., from the 

 Sula Islands 1 . 



8. Philemon plumigenis (G. R. Gr.). 



Tropidorhynchus plamigenis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 174, 

 191, Ke Islands (type examined). 



[No. 276. Male; 277. Sex uncertain: eyes brown; stomach 

 contained seeds. — /. M.~\ 



Both are young birds, with the feathers of the sides of the breast 

 with broad yellow edges, and with the outer edges of the remiges 

 tinged with olive. 



9. Calornis metallica (Temm.). 



Lamprotornis met alliens, Temm. PL Col. 2C6, 1824, Amboyna 

 (type examined). 



Calornis viridescens, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 181, Aru 

 Islands (type examined). 



Calornis nitida, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 181, New Ireland 

 (type examined). 



Calornis amboinensis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 182, Amboyna 

 (type examined). 



Calornis gularis, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 431, Mysol (type 

 examined). 



Calornis purpurascens, G. R. Gr. Hand-list ii. p. 26. no. 6377, 

 (1870), Goram (type examined). 



[No. 284. Female : eyes red ; stomach contained seeds ; caught 

 by Suhm in a spider's web. — J. M.~\ 



One fully adult " female " (No. 284), resembling a fully adult 

 male. 



This species has been found in nearly all the Moluccan and Pa- 

 puan Islands, from the Sula Islands westward to the Soloman Islands 

 eastward, and lives also in the northern part of Australia. 



Temminck, in the text of the ' Planches Coloriees,' says that his 



1 I think that the Austro-Malayan species may be more properly referred to a 

 peculiar genus, which I propose to call Dicruropsis, characterized as follows: — 

 Rostrum crassum, rostro specieriim generis Dissemuri simile, sed ctdmine minus 

 acuto, erassiiiscido ; Cauda bifida divaricata, rectricibus extimis supeme introrsum 

 paulhim convolutis, 



