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exclusively i in describing these birds, but Mr. Sharpe's deci- 
sion is in favor of the first mentioned. Chibia carbonaria is 
perhaps the most common member of this genus, being met 
with near Port Moresby and elsewhere in New Guinea as 
well as on adjacent islands. It is 12 inches long, black all 
over, with green or purple gloss sometimes, glittering as from 
metal, but on the face of a velvety softness. The bill and 
legs are also black. A smaller form inhabiting the Aru Islands 
has been called Dicrurus assimilis. 
Another variety, Chibia megalornis, belongs to Ke Island, to 
the east of Aru. Here the gloss and reflections are about the 
same as already recorded, with perhaps an added glint of 
blue and darting gleams of steel. Bead-like points show 
here and there on the breast as on the other species. Hackles 
appear on the neck of a greenish tinge. The bird is about 
11 or 12 inches in length with tail about half as long. 
A little bird living in Southern New Guinea, though not con- 
fined to that region, may frequently be seen flitting about 
among the trees in the bush, engaged in a busy search for 
food. This is Collyriocincla brunnea of the Prionopide. It is 
a brown and gray bird, the brown washed with gray as on the 
wings, becoming altogether white on the cheeks, or gray 
obtruded upon by brown, as along the the tail and on the 
crown; below a muddy tint running whitish and white on 
the belly and under tail-coverts. A glow of yellow shows 
on the under wing-coverts. The length isonly between 8 and 
9 inches. : 
Closely related to the foregoing, by some authorities regarded 
as of the same class, by others formed into a separate genus, 
are small birds termed Pinarolestes ; little shrikes they may 
be called. The species P. megarhynchus is common enough 
throughout the archipelago. The prevailing color is a dark 
brown, streaked on the breast a deeper hue. Total length 8 
inches ; the female a trifle smaller. 
Near Port Moresby, of recent years so well known a spot 
in Southern New Guinea, may be met more or less frequently 
a few. species of the Oriolidz, one of which, of the genus 
Sphecot heres, is especially noticeable. It is about the average 
