198 ON THE GENUS ARTAMUS 



I am very doubtful about the species, as we have in the Museum two 

 specimens from Cape York received from Mr. Gould as his Artamus melanops : 

 and these two individuals I can hardly separate from^i. cinereus. They have 

 a little more black on the face, and narrower white edgings to the under 

 tail-coverts : this appears to be the best character ; but, as I have already 

 hinted, it appears to be somewhat variable. At the same this species is so 

 little known that perhaps A. venustus. nob., may turn out to be only the 

 adult stage. 



Spec, in Mus. Brit. 



a, I), ad. Cape York (J. Gould) . 



13. Artamus perspxcillatus. 



Artamus per spUlatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 344 (1850, ex Temm. MS. in Mus. Lugd.) ; Wallace, 

 Ibis, 1861, p. 348 ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485 ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 289. no. 4271 

 (1869). 



Ocypterus albovittatus, Kittlitz, Kupf. Vog. p. 23, pi. xxx. fig. 2 (1832). 



d ad. supr^ cinerascenti-brunneus : pileo undique colli lateribus et corpore subtiis clariiis 

 cinerascentibus : mento ipso, loris et palpebra, nigris : uropygio imo et supracandalibus 

 nigris : rectricibus nigris, late albo terminatis : ala tota saturate cinerea, remigibus versiis 

 apicem uigricantibus et anguste albo terminaliter limbatis : hypochondriis sordidiiis cinera- 

 scentibus : tibiis clariiis cinereis : subcaudalibus nigris : subalaribus et axillaribus albis : 

 remigibus infr^, sordide cinereis, intus versiis basin albis. Long. tot. 8, culmen 0'85, alje 

 5"05, caudje 3'1, tarsi 0'9. 



2 ad. vix h mari distinguenda. Long. tot. 8, alse 5'2, caudae 3'2, tarsi 0'95. 



.Tuv. similis adultis, sed marginibus plumarum albidis varius : subtus magis canescens, plumis cano 

 terminatis. 



Hah. Timor. 



Spec, in Mus. Brit. 



a, h, d , c, 2 ad., d,juv. E. Timor {Wallace). 



14. Artamus venustus, sp. n. 



Ad. supra cinerascens, pileo undique, capitis lateribus et corpore subtiis toto clarioribus et magis 



