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Chibia atrocaerulea, Sharpe, Cat. B. iii, p. 238 (1877). 



a. c? Gane, Halmahera, Alarch b, 1873. 



b. cT Batchian, 1874. 



Dicriiropsis carbonaria. 



Dicrurus carbonarius, Bp. Consp. i, p. 352 (1850, ex Muller Ms. in Mus. Lugd.): Gray, Cat B. Neio Guinea, 

 p. 33 (1859): Finsch, Neu Guinea, p. 17 (1865), Graij, Handl. B. i, p. 285 (1869): Salvad. Ann. 

 Mus. Civic. Genov. VII, p. 772, Salv. ^- D' Albert, i. c. p. 821 (1875), IX, p. 28 (1876), X, p. 138 

 (1877): Eamsay, Pr. Linn. Soc. K S. W. i, p. 392 (1877). 



Chibia carbonaria, Sharpe, Cat B. iii, p. 238 (1877). id. Journ. Linn. Soc. XIII, p. 499 (1878). 



a. cf 6. c 9 Dore, Neie Guinea, MarcJi 1873. 



d. e. <:? 9 Nappan, N. G., May 1873. 

 /. g. d' 9 Waweji, A^. G., May 1873. 



h. i. k. l. cT m. n. 0. p. o Eubi, N. G., May 1873. 



q. r. ö" s. t 9 Mafoor Island, March 1873. 



u. V. cf IV. 9 Kordo, Mysore Island, April 1873. 



On comparing a large series, D. carbonaria appears to be very closely allied to D. atricaerulea, but 

 at the same time it has a stouter and shorter bill, and the spangles on the throat and breast are smaller 

 taking the form of apical spots to the feathers instead of longitiidinal drops as in the Batchian and 

 Halmahera birds. I cannot find any permanent differences in specimeus from Mafoor or Mysore, though two 

 birds from the latter Island appear to have rather smaller bills and are appareutly younger, but a third 

 example appears to be identical. 



Dicruropsis leucops. 



Dicrurus leucops, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 478: Gray, Handl. B. i, p. 285 (1869): Wald, Tr. Z. S. VII 

 p. 70 (1872): Salvad. Ann. M. Gen. VII, p. 658 (1875): Bruggem. Abh. N. V. Bremen, V, p. 72 (1876). 

 Chibia leucops, Sharpe, Cat. B. iii, p. 241. 



p.q.d''^ TogianIslands,August\871,iving 165 — 170mm. 

 r. s. c? «■ o Siao, SangiMands , 1873, wing 170 —180 mm. 

 u. c? V. o Tabukan, Great Sangi Island, 153 — 162 mm. 



a. 9 Makassar, S. Celebes, Oct 1871, wing 155 mm. 

 h. 9 Tanette, S. Celebes, Sept 1871, wing 155 mm. 

 c. tl 9 himbotto, N.Celebes, July 1S7\, wing 160 — 163mra. 

 e.f. g. c? h. i. k. l. o m. n. o. sex. ign. Minahassa, N. Celebes, 

 wing 155 — 170 mm. 



The Togian specimens as well as the Sangi birds seem to be inseparable from the Celebean 

 although we are not acquainted with the colour of the iris, which is the chief character in the latter species. 

 D. leucops is reuiarkable also for tlie very profuse way in which the throat and breast are spangled, and 

 in the younger birds the shade of these spangles is more bronzy in appearance. As will be seen from 

 the subjoined measurements the birds from Siao appear to be slightly larger than those from Celebes. ') 



Genus Chaetorhynclms, Meyer. 

 Cliaetorhyiichus papuensls. 



Chaetorhynchus papuensis, Meyer, Sitz. K. Akad. Wien, LXIX, p. 493 (1874): Sharpe, Cat B. iii, p. 242, pl. 

 Xm (1877). Meyer, Ibis 1877, p. 491. 



') Kecently Count Salvador! has seperated the Sangi-bird specifically as D. axillaris (Atti d. R. Accad. d. Sc. d. 

 Torino XIII p. 1184, 1878). He says: „Differt a D. leucope Wall., cui proxime accedit, maculis nitentibus pectoris minoribus 

 et maculis albis apicalibus subalarium valde conspicuis." In some Sangi specimens of the Dresden Museum the breast-spangles 

 appear not to be smaller than in some Celebean ones, and in some of the first named the white tips on the under wing coverts 

 are nearly absent. A. B. Meyer. 



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