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colour, and there is less white on the wings and at the ends of the 

 tail-feathers. 



a. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



Artamus papuensis. 



Ocypterus papuensis, Temm. ; Bp. Consp. Av. p. 344. 

 Ocypterus leucorhynchus, Mull. Verh. Nat. Gesch. p. 21 . 

 Hab. New Guinea; River Oetanata (Miiller). 

 a. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



DlCRURUS ASSIMILIS. 



Dicrurus assimilis, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 179. 



Closely allied to Dicrurus bracteatus, Gould (B. of Austr. ii. 

 pi. 82), but is smaller in all its proportions. 

 Length 10" 6"' ; wings 5" 4"'. 

 a, b. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



Dicrurus megalornis. 



Dicrurus megalornis, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 179. 



Very similar in colouring to the Dicrurus bracteatus, but is very 

 much larger in all its proportions. 

 Length 15"; wings 7" V". 

 Hab. Ke Island ( Wallace) . 



Dicrurus megarhynchus. 



Edolius megarhynchus, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Astrol. t. 6. 



Dicrurus megarhynchus, G. R. Gray. 



Hab. New Guinea; Havre-Dorey (Quoy fy Gaimard). 



Dicrurus carbonarius. 



Dicrourus carbonarius, Pr. B. Consp. Av. p. 352. 

 Edolius carbonarius, Mull. (Mus. Lugd.). 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo (Miiller). 



Laniid.*;. 



Rectes kirrocephalus. 



Vanga kirrocephalus, Less. Voy. de la Coqu. t. 1 1 . 

 Rectes cirrhocephalus, Pr. B. Compt. Rend. xxxi. p. 563. 

 Timalia poliocephala, Mull. (Mus. Lugd.). 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Havre-Dorey (Lesson), 

 a. (Lobo.) From the Leyden Museum. 



Rectes dichrous. 



Rectes dichrous, Pr. B. Compt. Rend. xxxi. p. 563. 



Garrulus bicolor, Mull. (Mus. Lugd.). 



Hab. New Guinea; Lobo (Miiller). 



a, b. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



