180 ON THE GENUS ARTAMUS 



miserable description, " entierement grise." A. albiventris, Gould, is doubt- 

 fully distinct from J. cinevens, from which A. melanops, Gould, will be also 

 with difficulty separated. To the number must be added the lately discovered 

 A. maximus, Meyer, and A. insignis, Sclater. 



1066. I. ? 



The only species placed in this unnamed section is A. minor, which is, 

 in my opinion, a small but true Artamus. 



1067. c. } 



Whether Mr. Wallace, whom I follow, is right in putting the Artmnida 

 where he does, is a question to be settled later on (cf. Ibis, 1874, p. 412) ; 

 but I think there is no doubt at all that Mr. Gray was wrong in placing 

 such a bird as Leptoptenis chahert in the Artamidce at all. This is the sole 

 species he assigns to his unnamed section no. 1067 ; and why he did not 

 call it Leptoptenis, Bp., of which L. chahert is the type, I am at a loss to 

 conjecture. A glance at the wings of this and the succeeding species will 

 show that they are more truly Laniine than Artamine in their affinities (^cf. 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 282). 



1068. d. ? 



The usual name for the next two species is Artamia ; but Mr. Gray 

 seems to show that a change is necessary. If, as is generally allowed now, 

 Oriolia lernieri is the young oi Artamia viridis, the former generic name must 

 be employed, and the species called Oriolia viridis. Of the second species, 

 A. riifa (L.), I make a Vanga (cf. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 319). 



1069. e. Cyanolanius, Bp. 



C. bicolor is no Artamus, but goes along wath the other birds above 

 mentioned. 



