82 ON BIRDS FEOM SOUTH-EASTEEN NEW GUINEA. 



No dimensions are given by the last-named author, to begin with ; 

 but the bird sent to me by Mr. M'Farlane is rather larger than 

 Mr. Grould's figure. There are several other little points in 

 which the New-Gruinea bird difiers ; but, before every thing, Mr. 

 Gould makes no mention of the black frontal line in the Austra- 

 lian species, which is very conspicuous in the one to which I now 

 give the name of angustifrons. I am sorry that I have not in the 

 Museum an Australian skin to compare. At the same time I- 

 would draw Count Salvadori's attention to the Aru bird, of which 

 he has probably a better series than we have in London. It has 

 the black frontal line, succeeded by a very distinct line of white 

 which occupies the hinder part of the eyelid, leaving the fore and 

 lower parts of the latter black like the lores. This is very well 

 marked in the adult Aru specimen now before me, and differs from 

 the New-Gruinea bird and from Mr. Gould's figure. 



6. Cracticus cassicus. 



C. cassicus (Bodd.) ; Salvad. ^' D' Albert, t. c. p. 27. 



Two specimens. 



7. EULABES DUMONTI. 



Mino dumonti, Less. ; Salvad. ^ D' Albert, t. c. p. 828. 

 Appears to be quite inseparable from other specimens from 

 Dorey and the Aru Islands. 



8. Oriolus striatus, 



"Mimeta striata, Salvad. SfD' Albert, t. c. p. 828. 



The single specimen sent by Mr. M'Farlane agrees with others 

 from Dorey collected by Mr. Wallace. This ppecies seems to vary 

 very little ; but the bill shows some difi"erence in length and thick- 

 ness ; both thick- and thin-billed examples, however, occur in the 

 same locality. The streaks on the breast are broader in some 

 birds than in others, being Apparently more pronounced in the 

 younger individuals. 



9. ClAMYDODERA CERVINIVENTRIS. 



C. cerviniventris, Gould; Salvad. Sf D' Albert, t. c. p. 828. 



Three specimens of this Bower-bird have been sent ; and Signer 

 D'Albertis had already procured a pair on the coast of New 

 Guinea opposite Yule Island. They cannot be separated from 

 Australian examples, with two of which I have compared them ; 

 but they difier somewhat inter se. The streaks on the forehead 

 appear to extend further up the crown in two of the specimens ; 

 and the mottlings on the back are less pronounced than in 



