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throat and cheeks. White terminates the tail feathers and is also 
found onthe abdomen. There are spots of ochre on some of the 
wing feathers. The crown of the head is much dotted with 
black while the nape is almost entirely black. The length of 
this species is between 1] and 12 inches. The habitat the As- 
trolobe Mountains. 
Mafoor Island Cuckoo-shrike—Graucalus mafoorensis—has a 
breast that is beautiful with wavy horizontal lines of white on 
a black ground color ; these lines extend over part of the under 
wings. In the female the lines are broader, forming narrow 
stripes, thus giving the appearance of being almost equally 
and alternately black and white. Otherwise the bird is a soft 
drab color uniformly spread. Its local habitat seems to be 
Mafoor Island in Geelvink Bay. 
A bird met with frequently along the Fly River and else- 
where in New Guinea as well as in the adjacent islands is a kind 
of starling—Mino or Eulabes dumontii or Gracula dumontii— 
often seen sitting on the tops of dead trees, like the Twelve-wired 
bird of paradise and the Wattled bird. It is about ten inches 
in length, stout and well built. The body is a fine black with 
purplish and greenish reflections strongest on the shoulders. 
Some gray down feathers appear on the neck; on the wings 
a prominent white patch but small when the bird is not in 
motion, is to be noted. The under tail-coverts are white 
sheathing the black tail. The abdomen is bright yellow, as 
are also the bill and feet. The eyes darker, almost brown. 
Around the eyes large bare spaces covered with a dull colored 
skin only, call particular attention to this Grakle. There are 
also bald spaces extending from the roots of the bill to the 
chin and throat. The sexes are alike. By some strange over- 
sight in Stone’s little volume, this bird is called the Golden 
oriole. It may be, however, that this traveler confounded 
Dumont’s grakle with an allied genus not altogether unlike 
an oriole, namely Gracula orientalis or Melanopyrrhus orientalis, 
which is not uncommon near Port Moresby and other parts of 
New Guinea. This showy bird has the head of a bright rich 
orange. The same deep color marks the rump, lower back 
- and upper tail-coverts. Under parts around the vent show 
