DR. L. F. DE BEAUFORT, BIRDS FROM DUTCH NEW GUINEA. 41 3 



I saw this bird often on a Casuarina tree near our house at Metu Debi (Humboldt 

 Bay), where it would sit motionless for a long time and then suddenly fly up and return to 

 its old place, in the way of our fly catcher. 



Laniidae. 

 Crachats cassicus Bodd. 

 ç?, Bawé. March 4th, n°. 9. 



C?> cf?. Humboldt Bay, April 2ist and June and, n°. 158, 284. 

 4d n cT) 9> Near Lake Sentani April, 5th and June i8th, n°. 8t, 82, 94, 362, 363. 

 This bird may often be seen on an elevated branch of a tree, singing with its head 

 in its neck and fiapping its wings in the mean time. There is much variation in its song ; 

 one of its favourite tunes sounds rather like this: 



Cracticus quoyi Less. 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. VIII p. 94. 

 Q, Tami, n°. 319 (native coll.). 



Pachycephala griseiceps jobiensis A. B. Meyer. 

 Orn. Pap. II p. 225. 



Cyclop Mts, 1270 meters, April i4th, (in spirits). 

 Both birds agrée with spécimens from Japen in missing the brownish band across the 

 chest. The différence between typical griseiceps and jobiensis however is very slight, the yellow 

 being scarcely any brighter in the last. A bird from Andai in the Leyden Muséum misses 

 the brownish band across the chest too (cf. Nov. Zool. X p. 105). 



Pachycephala phaionota Bp. 

 Orn. Pap. II p. 230. 

 Mios Korsvar, July i8th, n°. 656 (in spirits). 



Pitohui dichroics Bp. 



Orn. Pap. II p. 195. 



2 cTcT) Humboldt Bay, April, May, n°. 195, 215. 

 Cyclop Mts, 900 meters April i3th, n°. 118 (in spirits). 

 çf, Cyclop Mts, April i5th, n°. 174. 



We found thèse birds in the top of high trees in the wood. They hâve a not unmelo- 

 dious very plaintive call. 



Pitohui dohertyi Rothsch. & Hart. 



Novit. Zool. X p. 95. 



Ç, cf, Jendè, Isle of Rôn, March 3rd, n°. 5, n°. 6. 

 2 cTcf; Bawé, March 5th, n°. 11 and 12. 



