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Show 1877.] DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND, ETC. 101 nearly the same results, and I use the name alecto; which he adopts, for the reasons which he gives. 8. ARTAMUS INSIGNIS, sp. nov. (Plate XV.) Candidus : capite cum cervice undique, alis et cauda nigerrimis : remigum et rectricum pagina inferiore cineracea ; subalaribus albis: rostro ceeruleo, pedibus fuscis: long, tota 7'7, alee 5*8, caudee 2*5. Hab. New Ireland (March 1876). Obs. Diversus ab A. monacho capite alis et cauda nigris. Here is a second instance of a repetition on the further side of New Guinea of a Celebesian type, A. monachus of Celebes being certainly the nearest known ally of this fine new species. I have examined a specimen of A. melaleucus (Forst.) of New Caledonia in the British Museum, but find it quite distinct, having the upper back black. A. maximus, Meyer, of New Guinea, is of the same large size as the present bird, but has the whole back black. 9. GRAUCALUS PAPUENSIS (Gm.). I refer a single skin without exact locality to the wide-ranging Graucalus papuensis, as understood by Salvadori (Ann. Mus. Gen. vii. p. 771) and Meyer (Sitz. Ak. Wien, lxix. p. 505). 10. EDOLIOSOMA, sp. inc. ( 2 )• A single skin, without exact locality, belongs to a female of one of the species of this genus-perhaps E. muelleri, Salvad. ( = plum-beum, Miill. nee Wagler). A very nearly similar skin in the British Museum is marked E. schisticeps (G. R. Gray). 11. LALAGE KARU. Ceblepyris karu, Less. Voy. Coq. Zool. p. 633, Atl. t. xii. Lalage karu, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. ix. p. 28. A. male of this species from Duke-of-York Island (Oct. 1875). It was originally established on specimens from New Ireland. 12. DlCRANOSTREPTUS MEGARHYNCHUS. Edolius megarhynchus, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. Astrol. Zool. i. p. 184, Atl. t. 6. Dicrurus megarhynchus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 119. A skin of this fine species, from New Ireland, which is, I believe, its truepatria. Quoy and Gaimard say Havre Dorey, New Guinea; but this is in all probability an error, as subsequent collectors have not obtained it in New Guinea. The specimen in the British Museum is likewise from New Ireland, obtained in Carteret Harbour by Capt. Lambrick, R.N. 13. DICRURUS LJSMO-STICTUS, sp. nov. Nigerrimus: alis caudaque extus ceneo nitentibus: capitis, cervicis undique et pectoris antici plumis nitente ceneo maculatis, his |