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Genus 3. Pterojpodocys , Gould. 



The long forked tail and elongated tarsi, togetlier with the terrestrical habits of the bird, are sufficient 

 to separate this form generically. 



1. P. jihasianella {Gould). Hah. Anstralia. 



Genus 4. Graucalus, Cuv. 

 All the species resemble Artamides very closely, but the bill is much smaller. 



1. Graucalus hoyeri. 



Choucari de Boyer, Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, Oiseaux, pl. 9, fig. 3. 



Campephaga boyeri, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283. 



Ptilodela boyeri, Jacq. et Pucher. Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. iü. pl. 68. 



Campephaga albilora, Schi. N. T, D. IV. p. 45. 



Campephaga Boyeri, Meyer, Sitz. Wien. Akad. LXIX 389. 



Graucalus strenuus, Gould, B. New Guinea {nee Schlegel). 



a. 6. cT 9 ^^- c- c? J^^- Ansus, Jobi, April 1873. 



The female is in the plumage described by Schlegel as Campephaga alUlora, and the young male 

 resembles the old female but has hoary white edgings to the secondaries, whitish endings to the outer tail- 

 feathers, and has the leres whitish mixed with black feathers, shewing an approach to the füll black-faced 

 plumage of the adult male. 



Count Salvadori has lent me among other Cuckoo Shrikes a pair of Graucalus hoyeri form Hall 

 Bay in South -Eastern New Guinea, the male from the Fly River, the female from the coast opposite Yule 

 Islands, both collected by D'Albertis. In comparing these birds with Dr. Meyer's specimens I find that 

 they are specifically distinct, the chief difference in the male being the fawn-coloured, not chestnut, under 

 wingcoverts, while the female has dusky grey, not white, lores. The Count has with his usual shrewdness, 

 suspected the possibility of the Southern bird being distinct, as he has written the label "an nov. sp. ?" 

 but the Turin Museum had not a female of the northern G. hoyeri to compare with. I feel no doubt on 

 the subject myself and I therefore name the species from South-Eastern New Guinea. 



2. Graucalus subalaris, 



G. affinis G. boyero, sed subalaribus et axillaribus pallidioribus, cervinis, distinguendus. 9 ^ *^- 

 boyeri foemina loris pallide cinereis plane diversa. 



Hah. in Novae guineffi parte meridionali-orientali. 

 The measurements of the typical pair are as follow. 



cT Fly River. Long. tot. 8.5, culm. 0.7, al83 4.95, caudae 3.8, tarsi 0,85. 

 9 Hall Bay. - - 9.2, - 0.75, - 5.3, - 3.95, - 0.9. 

 The male is decidedly smaller than the female and this does not seem to be the case with the 

 true G. hoyeri judging from the specimens now before me. 



Long. tot. culm. 



a. cf Andei (D'Albertis). 9.2. 0.75. 



h. c? Ansus (Meyer). 8.9. 0.7. 



c. cf juv. - - 9.0. 0.75. 



cZ. 9 - - 8.7. 0.75. 



