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ARSES KAUPI, Gould.
Kaup’s Flycatcher.

Arses Kaupi, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., December 10, 1850.

 

I nave some little doubt as to the propriety of placing this bird in the genus drses, but rather than multiply
the number of genera, perhaps unnecessarily, I have assigned it a place therein, as it accords more nearly
with that form than with Monarcha, the only other genus to which it offers alliance.

I am happy to have
this opportunity of paying a just compliment to my friend Dr. Kaup of Darmstadt, an ornithologist of vast

acumen and research, and whose philosophical labours are well known to all naturalists: the compliment is
the more appropriate, as he is at this time (1851) engaged in preparing a Monograph of the Muscicapide,
to which family the present bird belongs.

The specimen here represented is the only one I have seen: it was killed on the north coast of Australia ;
and this is all, I regret to say, that is at present known respecting it.

Small spot on the chin, crown of the head, lores, line beneath the eye, ear-coverts, broad crescentic
band across the back, and a broad band across the breast, deep shining bluish black ; wings and tail brown-
ish black ; throat and a broad band across the back of the neck white; lower part of the back and abdomen
white, the base of the feathers black, which occasionally showing through give those parts a mottled appear-
ance; bill bluish horn-colour, becoming lighter at the tip; feet black.

The figures are of the natural size.

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