hac a of op series ¢ eC aries
below, whitish along the inner webs ; wings above resembling the back, the greater series and seconda
brown, washed externally with grey ; the primaries entirely brown ; median and greater coverts tipped with
buff or whitish spots; tail slaty black, the three oute
band of dull brown: ‘bill black, the lower mandible yellow ;
6:4 inches, culmen 0°5, wing 2°8, tail 3-2, tarsus 0:65.
The male bird collected by Mr. Forbes has the head blacker
r feathers tipped with white, with an obscure subterminal
feet dusky olive” (/Vadlace). ‘Total length
- than in the female, but otherwise the sexes
are alike in colour. |
T = ?pee < ‘ ‘ IN 7 e
The figures in the Plate represent a male and femelle of th
obtained by Mr. Forbes in the Astrolabe Mountains.
natural size, drawn from the pair of specimens
he re
. we
a Wie .
we
(
y
A
ik -
MYTAGRA | JIL "ENTRIS > Sclater.
W Heat del et ith.
Munterm Bres.unp.
my init
5
4
MYIAGRA FULVIVENTRIS, Seiater.
Buff-bellied Flycatcher.
Myiagra fulviventris, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883. pp. 54, 200.—Meyer, Zeitschr. gesammte Orn, i. p. 194 (1884).
Turs is one of the most distinct of all the species of grey-backed Flycatchers of the genus Myiagra, as it can
only be confounded with two other species, viz. JZ. erythrops, which has a rufous forehead, and with the female
of ML, galeata. ‘The latter, however, has the upper parts much duller grey, and the rufous of the under
surface is paler and almost uniform, the abdomen being only a shade lighter than the throat and breast ; but
in J. fulviventris, as may be seen from the Plate, the throat and breast are of a fine rich orange-rufous,
contrasting with the paler colour of the abdomen and sides of the body.
This species was discovered by Mr. H. O. Forbes in the Tenimwber Islands, having been met with by him in
Larat as well as in Loetoer.
The following descriptions are taken from the typical specimens in the British Museum :—
Adult male. General colour above leaden grey, with a slight greenish gloss ; wing-coverts like the back ;
bastard-wing slightly more dusky ashy; primary-coverts and quills dusky, externally edged with ashy grey,
rather paler on the primaries ; tail-feathers pale slaty grey, with lighter ashy margins, and barred indistinctly
with dusky under certain lights, and the outer feathers slightly tipped with fulvous; lores dull ashy; ear-
coverts leaden grey like the head; cheeks, throat, and breast deep rich orange-rufous, the abdomen, sides of
body, and under tail-coverts pale fawn-buff; thighs more ashy ; axillaries and under wing-coverts a little
deeper rufous-buff; quills dasky below, ashy along the edge of the inner web: ‘bill black; legs and feet
black ; the soles yellow; iris dark brown” (27. O. Forbes). Total length 5°5 inches, culmen 0°58, wing 2:8,
tail 2:8, tarsus 0°75.
Adult female. Very similar to the male, but rather paler, especially on the under surface of the body :
« bill lavender” (HI. O. Forbes). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0°6, wing 2:55, tail 2-4, tarsus Odo.
Another male hind collected by Mr. Forbes in Loetoer has the bill marked as lavender-coloured, like ie
female above described, which is from Larat. The bird from which the description of the adult male is
taken is also from Larat, and is the one which is figured in the Plate.
[R. B. 8.]
Fad
Gu
|
MYTAGIR &
W Hart del et lithy. a ea IK \
CERVINICAUDA > Iristr.
Minter Bros.unp.
UMIIAIUUTA LAT AUTpTMTT TTT TT LL YTTTE
a /: " y a
MYIAGRA CERVINICAUD A, Tristr.
Fawn-tailed Flycatcher.
Mytagra cervinicauda, Tristram, Ibis, 1879, p. 439.—Salvad. Ibis, 1880, p- 130.—Tristr. tom. cit. p. 246.—Salvad
Orn. Papuasia, etc. il. p. 79 (1881).—Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. vi. p. 726 (1881) ee
1882, pp. 137, 142.—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xviii, p. 423 (1882).—Id. Orn. P a
p- 533 (1882).—Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vii. p. 24 (1882).
sce
1S,
apuasia, ete. iil.
Many of the Myiagre, or Broad-billed Flycatchers, seem to be more easily recognized by the females than by
the male birds. Such is certainly the case with the present species ; for the male is scarcely to be distin-
guished from the same sex of JZ. melanura of the New Hebrides, whereas the hens of the two species are
easily separable, the clear grey head and ear-coverts, the fawn-coloured abdomen and under tail-coverts, as
well as the fawn-coloured tail-feathers, at once distinguishing MZ. cervinicauda. As might be expected,
M. ferrocyanea is also very like the present species ; but the male is distinguished by its purplish upper
surface, and the female by the white underparts.
The present species is doubtless peculiar to the Solomon group of islands, having been met with in Rendova
by Capt. Richards and by Mr. Morton in Ugi.
The following is a description of a pair of birds lent to us by Mr. Ramsay :—
Adult male. General colour above dull bottle-green, becoming greyer on the lower back and rump; upper
tail-coverts like the back; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish,
externally edged with the same colour as the back, rather greyer on the secondaries ; tail-feathers greenish
black, with a greyish shade on the edges; lores and feathers below the eye velvety black ; sides of face,
ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and chest greenish black; breast and remainder of under surface, including the
thighs and under tail-coverts, white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, the edge of the wing mottled
with greenish black ; quills blackish below, white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5:7 inches,
culmen 0°55, wing 2°65, tail 2°3, tarsus 0°6.
Adult female. General colour above rufous-brown, the upper tail-coverts fawn-coloured and contrasting with
the back; wing-coverts blackish, edged with rufous-brown like the back ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and
quills blackish, with scarcely any rufous margin, except on the secondaries ; two centre tail-feathers entirely
brown ; the next two brown, with a small fawn-coloured tip ; the next brown along the inner web, fawn-coloured
outer web, the two outermost entirely pale fawn-colour ; head and nape French grey,
contrasting with the back ; a line across the base of the forehead, lores, aud eyelid pale tawny butt; ear-coverts
French grey like the crown; cheeks, throat, and breast deeper tawny, the abdomen ee thighs lighter and more
: axillaries and under wing-coverts
at the tip and along the
tawny brown, deeper again on the sides of the body and the under tail-coverts;
like the breast. Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0:65, wing 2°45, tail 2:3, tarsus 0°65.
n : : eee irds abov ‘ibed, and represent an adult male
The figures in the Plate are drawn from the pair of birds above described, < i an é ‘
and female of the natural size.
Rese
MAbs _J
aaa Ke
OTe te IIe
AVTVAMVAAVVOQULUCUOUUUUQLIVQULNULULUUUUUIVLUL ULL
uf " i: rm "
MYIAGRA FERROCYANEA, Ramsay.
Purple-backed Flycatcher.
Myiagra ferrocyanea, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. a VE sive spe (3 (8/0) ee alee ian Mus. Civ. Genov. xiy
p- 508 (1879).—Id. Ibis, 1880, p. 129.—Id. Orn. Papuasia, ete. ii. Pp. 79 (1881), iii. p. 533 (1882). |
Myvagra pallida, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S, W. lv. p. 78 (1879).—Salvad. Ann. Mus, Civ. Genov. xiv. p. 508
(1879).—Id. Ibis, 1880, p- 129.—Id. Orn. Papuasia, ete. ii. p. 79 (1881). . }
On comparing the male of the present species with its allies, it w
reason of its parple back. The female was described by Mr. Ramsay as a distinct species (IZ. pallida),
although he appears to have entertained doubts at the time whether it might not be the hen bird of a black-
throated male. We have no hesitation in adopting the latter view, although
would be quite possible to have two species, as dissimilar as the
ill be found at once to be very distinct by
, according to some observers, it
sexes of the present bird, living side by side
in the same island. Where a black-throated male occurs, howeve
r, along with a red-throated bird, we
believe that the latter will be found to be the female
, and that it is only in certain islands that both sexes
are red- or white-throated. The nearest approach to the coloration of the females of
M. ferrocyanea
occurs in MM. cervinicauda of Tristram ;
but here the rufous on the chin and under surface of body at once
distinguishes them.
The following descriptions are taken from the original specimens lent to us by Mr. Ramsay :—
Adult male (type of Myiagra ferrocyanea, Ramsay). General colour above deep purplish, the head, which is
much crested, being more of a deep steel-blue colour; wing-coverts purple like the back; bastard wing,
primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, narrowly edged with blue-black ; upper tail-coverts blue-black,
not so purple as the back ; tail-feathers blue-black ;_ lores velvety black; sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks,
sides of neck, throat, and fore neck deep purple, inclining to steel-blue on the throat; remainder of under
surface from the chest downwards and including the thighs, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-
coverts pure white ; quills dusky below, white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5:3 inches,
culmen 0°55, wing 2°75, tail 2°5, tarsus 0°65.
Adult female (type of Myiagra pallida, Ramsay). General colour above pale reddish brown, with an ashy
shade on the scapulars and lower back, as well as the lesser wing-coverts; median and greater coverts,
bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally edged with light rufous, the margins nearly
obsolete on the bastard-wing and primary-coverts ; upper tail-coverts light rufous; tail-feathers pale brown,
externally edged with pale rufous, the outer feathers almost entirely pale rufous, dusky brown towards the
tips and along the outer webs; crown of head, hind neck, and mantle French grey ; lores and eyelid
whitish ; feathers below the eye and ear-coverts French grey; cheeks and entire under surface of Body
white, faintly shaded with fulvous on the fore neck; lower flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts washed with
pale rufous; axillaries and under wing-coverts white ; quills dusky brown oe pale mubeseein along the
edge of the inner web. Total length 5:3 inches, culmen 0°55, wing 2'59, tail 2°45, tarsus 0°55.
The figures in the Plate represent the two sexes of the size of life, and are drawn from the types of
M. ferrocyanea and M. pallida respectively. [R. B. $.]
CEB LOS 2
MACEUERIRHYNCEHUS AILBI
| Dea ) YA Qa (ia) a :
| TO ING 9 GLGTA
TGould &WHart deb et lth,
Walter unp
eS ee a DIY SEES
=< a ad
MACHARIRHYNCHUS ALBIFRONS, GR. Gray.
White-fronted Flycatcher.
Macherirhynchus albifrons, G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1861, p. 429.
“Tuts bird,” says Mr. G. R. Gray, ‘is, in many respects, like the JZ. wanthogenys; but it is at once distin-
guished from that species by the front and streak over the eyes being white, and by the bill being rather
narrower and slightly sharper in front.
«The young bird is of a yellowish olivaceous, with the front and eyebrows pale rufous; throat and breast
white; the latter is waved with fuscous; beneath the rest of the body yellow, and olivaceous on the sides ;
wings and tail fuscous, with the coverts of the former margined with white, while the quills are margined
with yellow.”
In size and general appearance this species approaches the Australian bird to which I have given the
name of flaviventer ; but on comparing the drawings of these two birds the most casual observer may discern
the difference that exists between them. It will be necessary for me to state that my figures were taken
from Mysol specimens collected by Mr. Wallace.
I have now figured in the present work three very distinct species of this singular group of Flycatchers ;
a fourth is said to exist in Mr. Gray’s MZ. wanthogenys, a plate of which will appear when I get good Aru
specimens for illustration.
Total length 4" 11”, bill from gape 93"", wing 2" 4”.
Hab. Waigiou and Mysol.
a I J 7 lI7_
aS
ried
h
We
a ae
_ | %
AN
aw
ir
Amey
3
BS Rc.
eo
A)
eS
i
aw)
:
NA
I
d
> ao (
NL“
cae
a
MACHR RUREYN CHIUS NIC ARIPECTUS, Schl,
J.Gould &WHart del, et lith
Walter inp
MACHAUTRIRHYNCHUS NIGRIPECTUS, Seniecer.
Black-breasted Flycatcher.
Macherirhynchus mgripectus, Schlegel, Obs. Zool. v., Ned. Tijdschr. voor de Dierk. iv. p. 43 (1873).—George
Dawson Rowley, Proc. Zool. Soc. May 1876, p. 414. . ;
Macherorhynchus nigripectus, T. Salvadori, Ann. del Mus. Civ. di St. Nat. di Genova, vii. p. 768, 1875.—Atti
della Reale Acad. delle Scienze di Torino, February 1875, vol. x. p. 378.
Or this very rare species I have received two specimens, from which the accompanying drawing was
taken, one very kindly lent to me by Geo. Dawson Rowley, Esq., of Brighton, the other from Dr. Meyer,
of Dresden, through the hands of Mr. Gerrard. Both these, I believe, are from the northern part of New
Guinea. I regret to be unable to state any particulars as to the habits and disposition of this bird; but its
peculiarly constructed bill would naturally lead me to infer that aphides and very soft-winged gnats
constitute a great portion of its food.
Face hoary, eye surmounted by a stripe of yellow; throat, ear-coverts, neck, and under surface bright
yellow ; on the chest a somewhat lengthened tuft of feathers, which are black at their bases and yellow at
their tips, giving the appearance of a dark patch on this part of the under surface; crown of head and
upper surface generally very dark grey tinged with olive; tail-feathers black, all but the four centre ones
margined and tipped with white ; wings blackish, the lesser and greater wing-coverts and tertiaries tipped
with white; bill and Jegs black. In size this bird about equals JZ. wanthogenys and M. albifrons,
Total length 42 inches, wing 32, tail 22, tarsi 3, bill .
The figures in the accompanying Plate, and which I suppose to represent the male and female, are of
the size of life.
Hab. Arfak Mountains, New Guinea.
ers
SA Ser
=
WHare, del eb ih HE TERANAX MUNDUS
Walter, f; mp.
HATHIGN UL AJANYTTOpOMUy TTT TTT
a's
nN —— SS I SE cp, F = z
. = .— acd BSA SSS. 2 ™ (a VA
HETERANAX MUNDUS.
Forbes’s Pied Flycatcher.
Monarcha mundus, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 54, pl. xii. fig. 2.
In describing this species, Dr. Sclater seems to have had some suspicion that it was not a typical Monarcha,
for he figures the bill alongside that of JZ castus, in order to show the difference between them. On the
arrival of the typical specimens in the British Museum, we at once compared them with those species which
seemed to be their natural allies in the genus Prezorhynchus, and we found that the Timor-Laut bird
differed in the structure of its bill from all of them. It is closely allied to the Australian genus Sizura ;
but the latter has the bill flattened, although it is very narrow ; whereas in J mundus the bill is not only
narrow, but is strongly compressed, so that it is higher than broad at the nostrils. Under these
circumstances, we have felt compelled to propose the new generic term of Heteranaw (érepos = alter, and
avak — rex).
Mr. Forbes informs us that he shot this species near the village of Waitidal, on the island of Larat; it
was found not far from the coast.
The following description is taken from the original specimens :—
Adult male. General colour above iron-grey, with a band of silky white plumes across the ramp; wing-
coverts glossy blue-black, including the bastard wing and primary-coverts; quills black, externally edged
with iron-grey, broader on the secondaries ; upper tail-coverts and four central feat feats blue-black, the
next pair with a white spot near the tip, the latter fringed with black, ae other fealllears pica ae in
white, increasing in extent towards the outermost, where the white occupies the terminal half of the Heathen,
forehead, lores, a narrow superciliary line, ear-coverts, and feathers round the eye velvety black ; feathers
below the eye, cheeks, sides of face, and sides of neck pure white; base of cheeks and Cee of throat
black ; sides of the throat and rest of the under surface pure white, with a slight wash of grey on the
: Wat aCreme e ving ‘+k; quills dusky
flanks; thighs black; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white; edge of wing black; q cy
1 T ‘4 inches, culmen 0°7, wing 3°29,
blackish below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6:4 inches, cu g
tail 2°8, tarsus 0°85. a
1 1 c i 30 far ) » throat.
Adult female. Like the male, but with the black not extending so far down the ie
cal pair of specimens, before their deposition in the
They are represented in the Plate,
[R. B. S.]
Wing 3:1 inches.
Dr. Sclater having very kindly lent us the typi
British Museum, we have been enabled to give a figure of them both.
of the size of life.
AR SES TE \T RTC
id & Jel et: Both LX NANI KS 6
HAT VAUUUIAGAAUUALYLCTOGOONETTTGTTTAAUTTTITE
- | 2 Hl B | 4 | 5
A R ss LY Ss a H) LL K S C () Pp H DL H A LM U S
; ! S.
Frilled-necked Flycatcher.
Muscicapa telescophthalma, Garnot, Voy. Coguille, i pt. 2, p. 593, pl. 19. fi 1 (182¢
\ , 1. pt. 2, p. » pl. 19. fig. 326).
Muscicapa enado, Less. Voy. Coquille, i. pt. 2 34, 5
J 1 - pt. 2, p. 643, pl. 15. fig. 2 (1826).—Sclater, Proc. Linn. Soe. 1858,
emo) lee
Arses telescophthalmus, Lesson, Traité, p. 387 (1831).—Bp. Consp. i. p. 326 (1850).—Salvad. Ann. M i
Genov. x. p. 132 (1877 .—Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. p. 409 (1879) ee
Monarcha telescophthalma, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 257 (1837).—Gray, Gen. B i p. 260 (1846).—Id. P.Z.S
Leo. p. 177, 1859, p. 156.—Id. Cat. B. N. Guinea, p. 30 (1859).—Id. IP, ZA, Se UBB, w ea aes h
Neu-Guinea, p. 169 (1865).—Gray, Handl. B. i. p. 320 (1869). -— 2
Monacha telescophthalma, Swains. Nat. Libr. Flycatchers, p. 140 (1837)
Aut the species a ine genus drses are remarkable for a frill or tippet round the back part of the neck, and
for a naked skin of blue which surrounds the eye; the former, it appears, the bird has the power of
erecting. That the appearance which I have given to the present species in the accompanying Plate is no
exaggeration may be believed from the fact that Signor D’Albertis brought me a specimen, killed by
himself, dried in an erect position, in order to show the way in which these birds are capable of elevating
this frill. Mr. Broadbent had also preserved some of his specimens with an evident view to show ane
peculiarity. The present species has been known the longest, having been described in 1826. It appears to
be confined to Northern New Guinea and to Mysol, whence numerous specimens have been sent to England,
and where a large series also appears to have rewarded the exertions of the Dutch and Italian travellers. It
is to be recognized from the allied species by its larger black chin-spot. The female may be told at a glance
from the same sex of 4. arvensis by its white lores, and from the females of 4. datante and A. insularis
by its deep orange-chestnut back, which renders the orange collar round the hind neck only a little darker
than the rest of the upper surface. The head is blackish or very dark grey; and the colour of the tail,
which is rufous-brown edged with chestnut, is also a distinguishing peculiarity of the species. For the
following descriptions I am indebted to Mr. Sharpe’s Catalogue :—
« 4dult male. General colour glossy steel-black ; the scapulars and lower mantle-feathers white at their
where they adjoin the lower back, which, with the rump, is white, the bases to the feathers being
tailecoverts and tail black; crown of head, sides of face and ear-coverts;
umes of the head of a velvety texture, and with a
ar round the hind neck, as well as entire
ends,
grey; wings entirely black ; upper
fore part of cheeks, chin, and upper throat black, the pl
slight steel gloss ; hinder part of cheeks, sides of neck, and a coll
under surface of body pure white, including the under wing-coverts and axillaries ; thighs black, as also the
edge of the wing ; ‘bill pearly grey ; feet dull lead-colour or ashy ; iris black ; fleshy wattle round the eye
sky-blue’ (D’ dibertis).
«Total length 6:4 inches, culmen 0°6, wing 3-15, tail 2°85, tarsus 0°7.
‘Adult Fae. General colour orange-brown, brighter on the hind neck; wings dusky brown, all the
coverts md quills externally orange-brown or rufous; crown of head dull Se Oa as well a the eae
round and below the eye; in front of the latter a large spot of dull white; sides of ee sides of neck,
ve: remainder of under surface pure white, the flanks washed with reddish brown ;
thighs entirely of the latter colour ; under wing-coverts whitish, washed slightly ae Se quills dull
‘bill dusky; feet ashy; ms black’? (D’ Albertis).
‘9, tarsus 0°65.”
it will also be found in the British Museum,
throat, and breast orange ;
brown below, rufous along the inner webs ;
a6 < 5 ~ ee a Qa. P 2 »)
«Total length 6°3 inches, culmen 0 6, wing 3°2, tail 2
this bird are in my own collection ;
Fine specimens of |
ctions both on the Continent
and in America.
and Leyden, Dresden, and many other colle
Ned
wd
ob,
x
a
le
\
\
,
i
2)
Wg
SES BATAAN TA , Sharpe
&W Hartdd a& hth
Walter: Lup
ARSES BATA NTA, Sharpe.
Large Frilled-necked Flycatcher.
Arses batante, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. No. 5, p. 20 (1879).—Id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv p. 411 (1879)
Tuts species is the largest of the genus 4rses yet discovered; and it is remarkable that a yellow bill and
eye-wattle, instead of blue ones, are sometimes seen in adult males. The female is also very different
from that sex of the allied species in its coloration, having the back brownish orange, with the wings of
the same colour, the innermost secondaries being exactly like the back, as are also the rump and upper
tail-coverts ; the tail also is plain orange-chestnut, with a faint shade of brown at the end; the head is dark
grey, and the lores white.
The islands inhabited by the present bird are Waigiou and Batanta, whence, Mr. Sharpe informs me, the
Leyden Museum has a considerable series collected by the late Dr. Bernstein. I transcribe the following
detailed description of the species from Mr. Sharpe’s ‘ Catalogue of the Flycatchers :’—
“Adult male. Similar to A. telescophthalmus, but rather larger, and sometimes having the wattle round
the eye and bill yellow. ‘Total length 7 inches, culmen 0°7, wing 3°4, tail 3, tarsus 0°75.
“Adult female. General colour above light rufous, the wing-coverts and imner secondaries like the back ;
primary-coverts and primaries dusky brown, externally edged with light rufous, the secondaries more
broadly, the inner ones being almost entirely orange-rufous, with a shade of dusky brown on the inner
web ; tail-feathers pale rufous, the centre feathers dusky brown, with pale rufous edges and shafts; crown
of the head dark grey, as also the feathers round the eye, which are slightly mottled, with white bases ;
loral spot dull white; ear-coverts, sides of face, and throat light orange-buff; remainder of the under
surface white, the sides of the breast washed with orange; the tibial plumes and under wing-coverts light
orange-buff, the edge of the wing deeper orange; axillaries buffy white ; quills ashy Broa below, rufescent
Total length 7 inches, culmen 0:65, wing 3°3, tail 3, tarsus 0°8.
Wallace in the island of Waigiou,
along the inner web.
The figures in the Plate are drawn from a pair of birds collected by Mr.
and now in my own cabinet.
f
i iY ‘ vail
differe : . :
Ar the time that I made my drawings of the different species of drses, which was towards the end fi cite
) of these birds in my collection; and I came to the
conclusion that five species of the genus could be recognized.
year 1878, I had occasion to examine closely the series
: a ; On communicating my impressions to
Count Salvadori, I received a note from him to the effect th
! rece at his opinion entirely coincided with mine, and
that, in the MS. of his forthcoming work on the Birds of N
; ew Guinea, he had conferred new titles upon two
of the species, which were not previously named. Mr. Bowdler Sharpe, who was at that time absent from
England on a visit to Leyden, whither he had gone for the purpose of examining the collection of Flycatchers
in the Museum, brought me back word that he had become convinced from a study of the splendid series
of Arses in that institution that there were two species still undescribed, and that he had bestowed the names
of A. batante aud A. aruensis upon them, and had left the descriptions in Professor Schlegel’s hands for
publication. A full account of the two birds appeared in the ‘ Notes from the Leyden Museum’ in January
of the present year ; and on receiving notice, Count Salvadori very properly suppressed the MS. names which
he had given to the species. Mr. Sharpe’s title of arwensis can scarcely be called well chosen, as the bird
is by no means confined to the Aru Islands, but extends apparently along the entire coast of Southern
New Guinea. Signor D’Albertis has met with it on the Fly River; and it has been procured near Port
Moresby by Mr. O. C. Stone and Mr. Kendal Broadbent. The present bird is distinguished by the smaller
size of the male and the less-extended black spot on the throat. The female is to be recognized by its brown
back and tail, contrasting strongly with the orange collar round the hind neck ; the head also is jet-black, and
the loral spot orange. ‘The following descriptions are extracted from Mr. Sharpe’s ‘ Catalogue,’ the synonymy
of which has been here corrected so as to include the references to the bird’s occurrence in South-eastern
New Guinea, which that author forgot by some accident to place under the heading of the present species.
“¢ Adult male. Crown of head, ear-coverts, and sides of face, fore part of cheeks, chin, and extreme upper
edge of throat blue-black ; round the hind neck a broad white collar, joing the sides of the neck, which,
with the hinder cheeks and the rest of the under surface of the body, are pure white, excepting the tibial
plumes, which are black; mantle, scapulars, and upper back blue-black ; wing-coverts also blue-black, the
terminal half of the inner greater coverts and the ends of the scapulars white; primary-coverts and
quills black, edged with blue-black ; lower back and rump white; upper tail-coverts binesblacks: tail-feathers
black, washed with blue-black on their margins; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; qqedlis bled
below, ashy along the inner edge of the primaries, white on the secondaries. Total length 6°5 inches,
culmen 0°6, wing 3:1, tail 2:9, tarsus 0°7.
“ Adult female. General colour above dusky orange-brown, the tail also dull Dro van ce ee
edges to the feathers ; least wing-coverts like the back, the median anil greater series ae: oe ie
orange-brown edges, and tips of lighter orange ; primary-coverts and quills brown with du DEBS u oy
own of head, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts glossy black ;
margins, broader on the secondaries ; cr ; ee
f bright orange rufous, contrasting strongly with the
a loral spot of orange ; round the hind neck a collar o
back ; cheeks, throat, and breast bright orange-rufous, dee
of under surface white, the flanks washed with ashy, the sides
aries white, the edge of t ae a
Imen 0°55, wing 2°99, tail 2:75, tarsus 0°7.
pening almost to chestnut on the latter ; remainder
of the upper breast orange-rufous 5 thighs
i i » wine orange ; quills dull brown, ru-
dusky brown ; under wing-coverts and axill he g ge; q
“the i th 6 inches, cu
fescent along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6 inches, nae ee
Signor D’Albertis says that the bill and feet are dull ashy, the eyes black, , ae ee
C ak ; : life. and are taken from spec ‘
i Tt : Ax ‘ds of the size of life, and @
MISECtS. rures he Plate represent a pair of birds : 1
A cca. They. late Dr. James in South-eastern New Guinea; and
Cc .
follows :—* eyes very dark brown surrounded by a
and tarsi dark leaden colour.
in my own collection. They were collected by the
according to the latter gentleman the soft parts are as
disk of blue ; bill pale blue at base, lighter at tip 5 feet
a
pee
Walter lp
WILL LULA IUTTIMTGTTT TU TE
a ‘ " ' I"
—— eS. ~% ar ae
“7 ae gree a 7
ARSES INSULARIS,
Orange-collared Flycatcher.
Monarcha insularis, Meyer, Sitzungsb. k, Akad. Wien
, lxix. p. 395.
Arses insularis, Sclater, P. Z.S. 1878
» P- 579.—Sharpe, Notes from Leyden Mus. i. no.
w)
DD. AY-
ee
Tus beautiful species of Arses was discovered by Dr. Meyer in the island of Jobi, in the Bay of Geelvink
» j o Ey
to be by no means uncommon in that locality, as he col-
It was also met with by the Italian traveller Beccari in the
same island. More recently it has been obtained during the voyage of H.M.S. «Cha
North-west New Guinea, and would appear
lected a considerable number of specimens.
llenger,’ at Humboldt
Bay in New Guinea, where the ship touched for half an hour on the 23rd of February, 1875. Mr.
Bowdler Sharpe, in the first volume of ‘Notes from the Leyden Museum,’ has described two new
species of drses, and has given a list of the species now known to belong to this genus. They are :—
A, telescophthalmus (Garnot), from New Guinea and Mysol; 4. batante (Sharpe), from the islands of
Waigiou and Batanta; 4. arvensis (Sharpe), from the Aru Islands and South-eastern New Guinea; 4.
kaupi (Gould), from North-eastern Australia; and 4. insularis (Meyer), from North-eastern Australia.
All these species, which are known to me personally, seem to be well founded ; but perhaps the handsomest
of all is the subject of the present article, the male of which may be distinguished from all the other
species of the genus drses by the orange collar round the bind neck and the light orange or Naples-
yellow colour of the lower throat and breast. The female is more closely allied to those of the other
kinds of Arses, but has the back of an olive-brown, which contrasts strongly with the orange collar round
the hind neck. It has a grey head like the females of 4. telescophthalmus and A. batante, and also a white
loral spot. These last characters distinguish it from the hen of 4. aruensis, which has a black head and an
orange loral spot.
The following descriptions of 4. insularis are taken from Mr. Sharpe’s ‘ Catalogue of Birds :’—
“ Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black, the feathers of the crown of a velvety Eee
what scaly nature ; feathers of lower mantle tipped with white where they adjoin the scapulars, wien. as
well as Ate lower back, are also white with black bases; rump ashy grey, some of the feathers white at the
ends ; upper tail-coverts and tail jet-black ; wings entirely black ; lores, feathers, round ine eye, ae
and chin black; cheeks, throat, breast, and sides of neck pale orange, extending in ; collar rounc a ae
neck ; rest of under surface, as well as the under wing-coverts and axillaries, pure white ; oe oes a ony
; : iehs black. Total length 6:4 inches, culmen 0°65, wing 3°25, tail 2°75,
the edge of the wing black; thighs black. ‘Total length 6°4 inches,
tarsus 0°7.” ce
The following note of the soft parts is from the * Proceedings ae a a oS
surrounding the eye large, and of a sky-blue ; bill and legs of a darker or ie ae Di Mea
The figures in the accompanying Plate represent the two sexes, kindly lent to me by Dr. Me}
size of life.
66 Eyes large ; ring
Zo
Ou
,
|
hb {Aw
5) " bs
ec ee
Mintern Pres ump.
7
Jet
TEZOIR)
el
W Hart del. et lith
it
5
4
maT
“ge
FON
PIEZORHYNCHUS BRODIEL.
Brodie’s Flycatcher,
Monarcha brodiet, Rams a V OXO,, Linn Soc N } N l ] 378 ).— ) Va p 12
L oe ; I rc - s 0 INo Mo WAY, IV. No 80 1875 . K al c ie is, 8 )
Pa suas a, ete. ll. p- 26 (1 880). ( ) ( | 1S ] 380 e 9. Id. Or n.
Monarcha barbata, Ramsay, Nature, xx. p. 125 (1879).
Monarcha barbatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoy. iv. p. 507 (1879)
Tus species belongs to a group of Flycatchers of the genus Piezorhynchus, which seems to be peculiar to the
Solomon Islands, for its members do not agree with any of the Papuan or Moluccan forms of the genus. In
the white under surface, black throat, and black ear-coverts the present bird approaches P. ee
which it also resembles in having white tips to the outer tail-feathers ; but its entirely black upper surface
distinguishes it at once both from P. guttulatus and P. morotensis, which are grey above.
The habitat of the present species is the Solomon Archipelago, where it was found by Mr. Cockerell in
Guadalcanar and Lango.
We describe the typical examples as follows :-—
Adult male. General colour above blue-black, the feathers of the head rather velvety in texture, and scale-like
on the fore part of the crown; scapulars black ; least wing-coverts black, tipped with white where they
adjoin the median series, which, with the greater coverts, are pure white with concealed black bases ; bastard
wing, primary-coverts, and quills black; tail-feathers black, the three outer feathers tipped with white;
lores, feathers below the eye, fore part of cheeks, and ear-coverts blue-black; a large patch of white
extending from the hinder cheeks along the sides of the neck and united to the breast ; throat black, the
feathers long, rounded, and scale-like ; rest of under surface of body from the lower throat downwards pure
white; thighs black, edged with white; axillaries and under wing-coverts white, with a black patch near the
edge of the wing; quills blackish below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5:7 inches,
culmen 0:5, wing 2°95, tail 2°6, tarsus 0°75.
Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above brown, with faintly indicated dusky centres
to the feathers of the forehead and crown, which are denser and somewhat scaly in appearance ; ess wing-
coverts like the back; the median series white at base and pale falvous brown at the ends, forming an
indistinct wing-bar; greater series dark brown, edged externally with reddish brown ; bastard wing and
primary-coverts dark brown; quills dusky brown, externally of the same So as ne back; upper tail-
coverts and tail-feathers black, the three outer ones broadly tipped with white, increasing in extent towards the
outermost ; lores dull whitish, obscured with dull brown tips to the feathers ; ae dusky slate-colour ; a
coverts dusky grey; cheeks and sides of neck pale orange-rutous ; throat scaly in appearance, a ue ie :
and of a dusky grey colour washed with fulvous brown; fore neck and sides of beasts bee oa ee
extending on i the flanks : centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, with a sligh een
Meebo ighs gr sr wine-coverts and axillaries light orange-rufous ; quills dusky below, whitish
orange-buff; thighs grey; under wing-coverts and a: 8 9:7, tarans O75.
% f 1 moe oe ae > ‘6. wive’ 3:0 tail
along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-0 inches, culunen 0°6, wing : ky
; , ° > am af? lie rether with a y c
The typical specimens are represented in the Plate, of the size oF life, toget He ae eal
i 1; - Mr. E. P. Ramsay for the opportunity of ce oe
intermediate plumage; and we have to thank Mr. E. P. hhamsay
figuring these interesting specimens. ea
i
a
ee or re s
BS AK co)
a
hii ee l
ee 78% eT .
Lae
= roe
PIEZOREAYNCHUS BROW
WT
Ni, Ramsay,
W. Hart deb et Lith.
Mentern Bros. unp.
|
PIEZORHYNCHUS BROWN]
IYNCHUS BROWN I, Ramsay.
Brown’s Flycatcher.
"ag brownt, Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 711.—Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ete. iil. App.
Tuovcu closely resembling P. drodie: in general appearance, this species may be distinguished by the longer
bill, the greater extent of white on the outer tail-feathers, and especially by the much greater extent of black
on the throat, which reaches to the chest. The consequence of this is that the white patch on the hinder
cheeks is entirely shut off from the white breast, whereas in P. brodiei the two join.
The only specimen of P. drownt that we have seen is the typical example from Marrabo, in the Solomon
Islands, of which we give a description.
friend Mr. E. P. Ramsay.
Adult male. General colour above blue-black ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, those adjoining the greater
We are indebted for the loan of this example to the kindness of our
series broadly tipped with white; median wing-coverts white, the outer ones black at the base ; greater
coverts white, forming with the others a large wing-patch ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills black ;
tail-feathers black, all but the two centre feathers tipped with white, increasing in extent greatly towards the
outermost ; lores, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts black; fore part of cheeks also black, the hinder
cheeks white, extending in a large patch on to the sides of the neck; throat blue-black, the feathers scaly in
appearance; fore neck and chest also black, united by the black sides of the neck and the mantle ;
breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, the feathers adjoining the black throat having black bases ;
thighs black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with black bases to the feathers ; coverts near the edge
of the wing black ; quills black below. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0:7, wing 3-45, Ca 3°3, tarsus 0°85.
The Plate represents the adult male above described, in two positions, of the size of life.
[R. B. S.]
W. Hart olel et lith.
ZLOREYNCHUS
RICHARDST » Ramsay.
Mintern Bros.unp
PLIEZORHYNCHUS RICHARDSIEL, Ramsay
Richards’s Flycatcher.
Piezorhynchus richardsii, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Venue alia (1881)
Pomarea richardsii, Tristram, Ibis, 1882, pp. 136, 142.—Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic Genova
: ’
; mo XVill, p. 4292
Monarcha richardsii, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ete. iii., App. p. 529 (1882). y Ce
eee
Arter careful examination we incline to consider this species a true Piezorhynchus, as Mr. Ramsay has also
determined it to be, and not a Pomarea, as Canon Tristram calls it, although in its style of coloration it
very much resembles P. castaneiventris. It is distinguished from all the members of the genera Prezorhynchus
and Pomarea by the remarkable white patch on the hinder crown and nape, which serves to characterize the
species at once from all the other Flycatchers of the same group.
The following is the description of an adult male shot in Rendova Island, in the Solomon group, by
Lieut. Richards, R.N., who also met with it in the island of Ugi:—
Adult male. General colour above velvety black, with slight rufous edges to some of the upper tail-coverts ;
wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts, bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills dull black ; tail-feathers
black; lores, nasal plumes, forehead, and sinciput black, as well as the fore and hind part of the eyelid ;
upper and lower part of eyelid as well as the vertex and entire nape pure white, extending on to the sides
of the neck behind the ear-coverts ; ear-coverts, sides of face, cheeks, throat, and chest glossy black ; feathers
of lower chest black, tipped with chestnut like the rest of the under surface of the body, which is entirely
chestnut; thighs black; axillaries and under wing-coverts black, tipped with pale chestnut, with a patch of
black near the edge of the wing ; quills blackish below, ashy along the edge of the inner web; “bill
horn-colour ; feet black ; iris black ” (Richards). otal length 5:6 inches, culmen 0:7, wing 3:0, tail 2°55,
tarsus 0-65.
The specimen from which the above description was taken has been lent to us by Canon Tristram, in
Whose collection it now remains. The Plate represents the adult male of the natural size, and has been
drawn from the same individual. [R. B. S.J
a Tig
Pe
4
7 43)
“3
mW
ey
ES
| Pe if San
See
SOA haley
i i y
W Hart, del et bith
PIEZORHYNCHUS CASTUS,
Walter, Imp.
PIEZORHYNCHUS Casrus
White-crowned Flycatcher.
Monarcha castus, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 53, pl. xii. fie, 1
Tus beautiful species of Flycatcher belongs to the pied section of the genus Monarch
Piezorhynchus, as set forth in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds’), which includ uM. ae ieee
! 2 : ; ‘ludes JM. verticahs, MV s, M |
and other well-known Moluccan and Papuan species. It would appear t . ae 7 were
| \ ‘ See appear to resemble MZ. verticals ver
ane Fapuan spc M. lis very closely
and, like that species, has the ear-coverts, sides of neck, and summit of crown white, while the distrib ti
Y — : stribution
of white on the wing-coverts is the same; but it would seem to be at once distinguished by the ]j
of white spots on the throat, and by having the i | 7 Wee
elie vy having the inner secondaries edged with white ins ir bei
: ' 2 ‘ s edged with white instead of their being
entirely pure white as in JV. verticalis. :
Only a single specimen was contained in Mr. Forbes’s collection, from which we gather that the species
is rather rare in the part of the Tenimber Islands visited by him.
The following is a description of the original type :
7 :
Adult male. General aspect above variegated; the back and mantle bluish black, somewhat mixed with
grey on the lower back as it approaches the rump, the lower part of which, with the upper tail-coverts, is
white; least Bere coverts black; entire median series and inner greater coverts white; outer greater
ppreris black tipped with white ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the secondaries narroaly
fringed with white near the tip of the outer web; the innermost secondaries broadly edged with white
externally; centre tail-feathers black, the next with a small triangular tip of white, which mene in extent
towards the outer feathers until the external one is white for more than the terminal half; forehead, lores,
and a narrow superciliary line extending backwards and forming a broad nuchal collar bluish black ; the crown
of the head pure white encircled by the black aforesaid ; feathers below the eye, cheeks, and throat black,
which extends in a broad band and joins the black nuchal collar above mentioned, thus encircling the white
he lower throat decorated with white tips to the feathers,
ear-coverts, which form a conspicuous patch; t
as to form a more or less distinct collar
forming a triple line ; sides of neck white, extending backwards so
remainder of under surface from the throat downwards pure
separating the nuchal band from the mantle ;
the white of the under surface slightly
white, excepting the hinder aspect of the thighs, which is black ;
sullied with a grey shade; under wing-coverts and axillaries white,
adjacent coverts, which are black; quills blackish below, edged with wh
” (H. O. Forbes). Total length 5°75 inches, culmen
excepting the edge of the wing and the
ite along the inner web; “ bill lavender,
tip black ; legs and feet lavender ; iris reddish brown
000, wing 2:7, tail 2:7, tarsus 0°79.
The Plate represents the typical specimen of the 0 positions.
present species, of the natural size, in tw
(R. B. 8.]
Yé
Le
N
N
PlEZORAYNCHUS V IDUA 4 Zrastr.
W. Hart del. et lith
Mintern Bros. lup.
DP on fi ee oe
f
a“ wast yy 3
eed ee
wR Ted
4 ] iY >
GC 5 Poh.
Cy is
ee a
Re
+. &
FE
NW Gee:
eC
Re ae
ee
“ks
r
PIEZORHYNCHUS VIDUA, Tristram
White-backed Pied Flycatcher.
Piezorhynchus vidua, Tristram, Ibis, 1879, p. 439.—Salvad. Ibis, 1880, p. 130.—Tristram Ibis, 1880, p. 2
9p. . ; S, ‘ :
Piezorhynchus melanocephalus, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. iv. p. 468 » Pp. 246,
Monarcha vidua, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ete. ii. p. 24 (1881).
Tue original specimen of this Flycatcher was obtained by Lieut. Richards, R.N., at Makira Harbour, San
Cristoval, in the Solomon group of islands, on the 3rd of October 1878; and on the 21st of May 1879
the same gentleman procured a second specimen in the same locality, and this was named by Mr. Remmeay
Piezorhynchus melanocephalus. Count Salvadori expressed at one time an opinion that the present bird was
identical with Mr. Ramsay’s Monarcha brodiei, but afterwards, in his great work on the birds of New Guinea,
he came to the conclusion that they were really different species ; and this proves to be the case, now that
we have examined the typical specimens of both birds.
The present species belongs to a section of the genus Piezorhynchus which is very distinct from all the other
groups of these Pied Flycatchers by reason of the white collar and white ramp. The only species with which
it could be confounded is P. sgwamulatus, which has similar white markings on the wings, but has the feathers
of the fore neck edged with black, so as to present a scaled appearance.
The following is a description of the type specimen :—
Adult male. General colour above blue-black on the mantle, upper back and scapulars ; lower back and
rump white, as well as the upper _tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts black, with ovate spots of white, the median
and greater coverts white, with rather broad black edgings; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills black,
the inner secondaries with a broad mark of white towards the end of the outer web; tail-feathers black, the
three outer feathers tipped with white, increasing in extent towards the outermost ; head blue-black, separated
from the mantle by a broad collar of white, which also occupies the sides of the neck ; lores, feathers round
the eye, cheeks, and ear-coverts black ; throat also black ; remainder of the under surface of body pure white ;
thighs black ; under tail-coverts white, as also the under wing-coverts and axillaries; the coverts near the
edge of the wing black; quills blackish below, with their extreme inner base white ; “ feet ash-colour ; bill
black ; iris grey ” (Richards). Total length 5°8 inches, culmen 0:65, wing 2°95, tail, 2°9, tarsus 0°8.
The figures in the Plate are drawn from the typical specimen, which has been very kindly lent to us by
Canon Tristram. (Rasa Se
Pa +} e aN = ,
55
AES
aEee
mn
test
Re
WS
.
SO UAL AMIS Face
W. Hart del. et lith. : A L S 9 Trusty:
Minter, Bro\s limp.
PI
Scaly-necked Pied Flycatcher.
U S, Tristram.
Piezorhynchus squamulatus, Tristram, Ibis, 1882, pp. 136, 142.—Ramsay, tom. cit. p. 472.
Monarcha squamulatus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genoy. XV. p. 423 (1882).—Id. Orn Papuasia, etc
App. p. 530 (1882). ie
lil.
Tue island of Ugi in the Solomon group is the home of this Flycatcher, which belongs to the same section
of the genus Prezorhynchus as P. vidua of Tristram, to which species it is closely allied. Like that bird it
has a white collar round the neck, and the lower back and rump also white ; but it is easily recognized by
the black and white mottlings on the fore neck, which are not present in the San Cristoval species.
The subject of the present article was discovered by Lieut. Richards, R.N., who has brought to our
knowledge so many fine species of birds from the Solomon Archipelago. It appears to be confined to the
island of Ugi, whence Mr. Ramsay also informs us that he has received several specimens,
The following is a description of the type specimen :—
Adult male. General colour above blue-black, the crown of the head separated from the mantle by a
broad white collar; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts white; lesser wing-coverts like the back ;
median and greater coverts with large spots of white at the ends, margined with black in the median series,
and extending to the edge of the feathers in the greater series, where the white is more largely developed,
especially on the inner ones ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the innermost secondaries
with a triangular spot of white at the ends; tail-feathers black, with the two outer ones tipped with
white (N.B. The tail is imperfect, and three white-tipped feathers may exist); lores, sides of face, ear-
coverts, cheeks, and throat black; the fore neck white, all the feathers edged with black, producing a scaly
appearance; remainder of under surface of body pure white; thighs black ; ‘ale wing Covers and
axillaries white, the edge of the wing black, as well as the adjoining coverts $ quills black been white at
extreme base of inner web; “bill and feet drab colour; iris light brown” (2echards). Total length
6 inches, culmen 0°5, wing 3:1, tail 2°8, tarsus 0°8. ny andlide cutee
Weare again indebted to our friend Canon Tristram for the opportunity of bee oe i ei is
interesting species in the present work. The Plate represents the male bird ue oe ae ae
drawn from the original specimen, which, as far as this country is concerned, still remains unig
Tristram’s collection. [R. B. S.J
Al
‘
we S|
3 sa i a
ave
PICU C
unp
7
Vintern Bros.
, Sharpe.
DIUS
a
MOE
C
1
)
LU
OREY NCE
W. Hart delet lith.
7 Nu
an eo De y
PIEZORHYNCHUS MEDIUS
: Sharpe.
Coppinger’s t'lycatcher,
lpxanr has medius. Sharn tf ] 1 7]
Piezorhynchus medius, Sharpe, Rep. Zool. Coll. Voy. H.M.S. « Alert p. 14 (1884)
ee
Tue specimen irom Ww hic h thie Pp esent species Vas ch ir cterized Was obtained duri oO | > VOY 7
surveying-ship ‘ Alert,’ by Dr. Copy} A 2 ng the voyage of the
. ’ 4 I a : : e . inser, the ttached to the expedition. He procured a
male at Fort Mollie, in Queensland, in the month of Mav 1° oe :
— ind a . HN Ol May 1668; and an examination of the individual
m question induced us to reconsider the relations of tha : cp: :
i Weiti ACld tthe species of Piezorhynchus, to which it js
allie muin= in the year 1879. we d AL ee oe :
‘’ | _ p10 a 1879, we had recognized four species of this particular group of
catchers, viz. P. nsteini fro he Island of Salwat ae
Flycatchers, ¢ 1 the Islan watt, P. nigrimentum from Amboyna and Goram,
fC. i. eS ae aN ‘ ; . in iG
P. trivirgatus from Timor, and P. eo in North-eastern Australia. The latter species had previously
ite ; ) fp f } t 1X 0.) co CRY » ‘ 1 ry ° :
been united with P. SOS, Nt was separated in 1860 by the late Mr. G. R. Gray: and in writing
our account of the ‘Alert’ collections we acl ledeed
qd our error in uniting with it P. adbiventris of
Gould.
Dr. E. P. Ramsay, in bis latest lis 1888) of the Birds of Australi:
lia, gives the habitat of P. gould
as from Cape York to the Wide-B y distric f Eastern Australia, as far as the Richmond and Clarence
Rivers, to New South Wales. P. | is said to occur only in the Gulf of Carpentaria and the
Cape York district, prob bly ey ling to Rockingham Bay. He has apparently overlooked our
description of P. medius, which is cl ly allied to P. albiventris, and, like that species, has the upper
tail-coverts black; but differs from it 10 o
he sides of the body orange-rufous instead of white.
P. gouldi has the sides of the body ora ge-rufous as in P. medius, but has the upper tail-coverts grey.
NO Totes on the habits of P. medius have yet been recorded; but they are doubtless exactly the
Sane as those of the allied Australian Flycatchers, described by Mr. Gould.
1 . ° . : ° . : . eee,
Dr. Coppinger describes the soft parts as follows :—* Iris black ; bill light grey; legs and feet dark.
@eeearires in the Plate are taken from the typical specimen in the British Museum, and represent
two male birds of the size of life.
Erg ya rg yh
PIEZORHYNCHUS AXITLLARIS
W.Hart deb. et lith
Mintern Bros. unp.
HUQ CUAL QU THOU TTT HT
ef ‘ 7 " I"
PIEZORHYNCHUS AXILLARIS
W hite-tufted Flycatcher.
Monarcha avillaris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genovy. vii.
delle Molucche, ii
Piezorhynchus axillaris, Sharpe, Cat.
- 291 (1875 iV 5 (1879) i |
p (1875), xiv. p. 495 (1879).—Id. Orn. Papuasia e |
p. 30 (1881),
Birds in Brit. Mus. iv. p. 426 (1879)
Tats plain-coloured but elegant Flycatcher is easily distinguished from all the members of the genus
; embers 8
Piezorhynchus by its pure white axillaries, which contrast strongly with the general black plumage, so that it
forms a distinct section of the genus to which it belongs.
It is apparently a very local species ; for, as far as is known at present, it is an inhabitant only of the Arfak
Bruijn’s hunters procured an adult female in May and
ayoung female in June, while the type specimen was obtained by Dr. Beccari in July, at Profi, in the Arfak
Mountains in North-western New Guinea, where Mr.
Mountains, at a height of 3400 feet. No other travellers appear to have met with the species 5 but
Mr, Bruijn sent a few specimens to the Leyden Museum, one of which Professor Schlegel allowed us to have
for the British Museum.
The following descriptions are taken from the typical adult males and the young female specimen in the
Genoa Museum. They were examined |
y us during Count Salvadori’s visit to England, when he kindly
allowed us to take descriptions of them for the purposes of the British Museum ‘ Catalogue of Birds’ :—
Adult male. General colour above and below glossy blue-black ; wing-coverts blackish, edged with glossy
Diie-black, like the back: tail black = under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white, the latter forming a
conspicuous patch on each side of the breast. ‘Total length 5:7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3°2, tail 2:95,
tarsus 0°75.
Female (not quite adult). Differs from the male in being dark slate-colour above and below, with
a slight bluish gloss, the breast brown (appar ntly remains of young plumage) ; wing brownish black ; tail
black. ‘Total length 6 inches, wing 3:1, tail 2:9, tarsus 0-7. -
The figures in the Plate are of the size of life, and are drawn from the male specimen in the British Museum.
(R. B. 8]
Sar. a x ee
=) | iy ~) ee if (Kor ee
LG
es Pe Bk
Ia.
ow
a
NP WA OGRA PY SPL NAY APN
b
g.
‘
c \
a r
|
f
:
ll
a
t
i
a.
a
ia
) : a
eS Ss K
oF ps TS
Yer!
9
UNI
Walter
ICUS, Sharpe,
eb litte,
WHart del
|
b= TUVIIILA) UNNI ANAT LATTTTINAMTTTTTH HTT T TTT
| a "i ” y a
en,
er
MONARCHA Pp ERIOPHTHALMICUS
Black-Spectacled Flycatcher,
Sharpe.
Monarcha periophthalmicus, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) vol. xvi. p. 318 (1882)
ees
Aun the members of the genus Monarcha are birds of very elegant coloration ; and the present species is very
delicately coloured. It belongs to the section of the genus with black wings and tail, to which Monarcha
canescens and A. frater also appertain. It is, indeed, very closely allied to the last-named bird, the type of
which is now in the Civic Museum of Genoa, but a full description of which will be found in the British-
Museum ‘Catalogue of Birds’ by Mr. Sharpe, and also in Count Salvadori’s ‘Ornitologia della Papuasia.’
In both these works the forehead and chin are spoken of as black, while the region round the eye is white.
Although I have not been able to compare the type of J7 perrophthalmicus with that of Srater, yet I have
very little doubt as to its distinctness; for it has the fore part of the crown black, as well as the forehead,
while the entire region of the eye is also black.
The following is a copy of the full description contributed by Mr. Sharpe to the ‘ Journal of the Linnean
Society ’ ina paper read by him on the 6th of April, 1882 :—
“General colour above pearly grey, a little darker on the upper tail-coverts, which have concealed black
bases ; lesser and inner median and greater coverts pearly grey like the back; bastard wing, primary-coverts,
as well as the outer median and greater series and the quills, black, only the innermost secondaries externally
pearly grey; tail-feathers black; forehead and sinciput, lores, fore part of cheeks, feathers below the eye
and a broad ring round the eye black; chin and upper throat black ; lower throat, fore neck, and chest,
pearly grey, as also the sides of the neck ; remainder of under surface of body, as well as ee and
under SEE overts and the axillaries and under wing-coverts, cinnamon-buff; quills blackish below.
Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3:4, tail 2°75, tarsus 0°78.” .
The figure in the Plate is drawn from one of the typical specimens in the British Museum.
[R. B. S.J
It
represents a male bird of the natural size.
s
AS SDE Cae
a
salad
is
io 1 if
els
SESS:
o
a
=e
Cbs
UTVVOUUTEUUTHLL ULI USLALU LLL UL UL
Bt a i“ a ‘i
I Gold & W Hart del et lith
aia
LO
NY ue
A
Walter Imp
Sa
MONARCHA KOR DENSIS, Meyer.
Mysore Yellow Flycatcher.
Monarcha kordensis, Meyer, Sitzunesberichte der k. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, Band lxix p. 202 (1874)
ee
In introducing this fine new bird to my readers, [
cannot do better than quote Dr. Meyer’s own words
fn tbe subject, as the differences between this bird
and MZ. melanonota are very clearly expressed by him.
In the above-mentioned paper, published in the < Proceedings’ of the Vienna Academy, he eae as
of Kordo on the island of Mysore, in the north of Geelvink’s Bay,
eight specimens of a Monarcha which is closely related to JZ. chrysomela (i.e. M. melanonota, Scl.) of New
specimens from different localities (Nappau, Passim,
nevertheless the Kordo specimen is easily to be
“MM. kordensis is not yellow as 1s JW. chrysomela auct., |
follows :—‘‘I procured near the village
Guinea, a species of which I also got nine Andai, and
Puta on the Arfak Mountains); but distinguished.
jut is orange-coloured ; and the head, which in JZ
, has a very distinct fiery tinge in the species from the
Further, only the upper back is black, and not
chrysomela has an orange hue only TeIeUDO Renae
the whole back, as in JZ chrysomela s so that it might be
described as follows
‘upper parts orange, with a black patch on the uppper mantle.’ Otherwise the
colours are distributed as in JZ chrysomela.
“The female of JZ. sordensis differs in a similar conspicuous way from the female of JZ. chrysomela, the
underparts being orange, nearly as bright as in the male, and not brownish yellow as in AZ. chrysomela.
“The throat is whitish, the region of the throat deep orange ; the head is darker orange, with a brownish
hue, not olive-coloured as in JZ chrysomela ; upper parts olive-coloured with an orange gloss ; Wwing-coverts
with broad yellow tips. Total length 6:4 inches ; culmen 0°5, wing 3°3, tail 2-75. A young male differs
from the female only in having some feathers of the throat deep black.” .
But if IZ. horde Ds differs from JZ. melanonota, as I freely confess it does, it is so closely allied to the vide
M. chrysomela from New Ireland that Dr. Cabanis and Reichenow considered ihe two species to be a
al (of. J. f. O. 1876, p. 320). Dr. Sclater, however, informs me that a comparison of the pice : on as
two localities induces him to consider them distinct. as JZ kordensis has the black colour more Cmcumstinihet
onthe back and extending further down the throat ; the black colour also narrowly surrounds the eye, which
; “ , / “YSse eld. . . °
; a eo of my friend Dr. Meyer for the loan of one of the typical specimens of his
M. kordensis, of which the follow ing is a description ee ; eRe a p
Adult male. Similar to M. melanonota, but distinguished at a glance Yy - ne a ae oe
: : 7 » hack is confine 5
being yellow like the wing-coverts; the black patch in the middle of ee cee a richer and ime
the secondaries are much more broadly bordered w bs oe oe a x nt of the ce very small.
clining to fiery orange on the head and neck; the white spot below Y oe : s
culmen 0:6, wing 2°9, tail 2°, tarsus a ize
. >the natural size.
he figures in the Plate represent a pair of this species of the natura
Total length 5-9 inches ;
4
)
PA
x
wy
J
(» when in London.
My Plate is drawn from S r d’Albertis’s Sorong specimen, W ich he kindly lent me when
a c c OlT i PuO!I 1 i Citi » Ut
The figure is life-size.
5 ee
RLNS PL NSP Aig oe
Bs
Ls
:
ie
ye
Zs
uy}
a
Mintern Bros unp.
I A\
AX \\ o
Wt
N
|
JAA
TA
vy
. :
AAS)
FO
y]
A IRI
LARIE,
NV
PG
W. Hart del et. lith.
TTNTTHITLLAUUNLY UU AUTOPOOOTyTTTTGTOTH YUAN
a i i” rn "
SERS i.
POMAREA RU FOCASTANEA
Rufous-and-Chestnut Flycatcher.
Monarcha rufocastanea, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Sia
Pe 29:
Monarcha rufocastaneus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. (
N.S. Wales, iv 79, ¢
S. Wales, iv. pp. 79, 313 (1879),—Salvad. Ibis, 1880,
renoy. xiv. p. 508 (1879).
Pomarea castaneiventris, Salvad. Orn. Panuasia ete 2: ©
. Papuasia, ete. ii. p- 11 (1881, pt.).
Tus species resembles very closely Pomarea castaneiventris of the
a ; Solomon group of islands, and to the latter
bird it has been united by Count Salvadori.
ee ; ; aah Our own idea was also that these two species were identical,
judging from — tamsay’s description; but the latter gentleman, during his visit to England as Commis-
sioner for New South Wales to the International Fisheries Exhibition, brought over the types of his
Monarcha rufocastanea, and we are enabled to say that they are not the same species.
On comparing males it is evident that P. rufocastanea is a smaller bird, is duller and more slaty black
above and lighter chestnut below. The axillaries are entirely bay-coloured like the breast, whereas in
P. castaneiventris the axillaries have distinct blackish bases and are rufous for not quite the terminal half.
The females of the two species differ much more than the males. That of JZ rufocastanea, besides being
a much paler bird, is distinguished at once by its light grey throat, this being black in P. castaneiventris,
The following are the descriptions of the typical specimens :—
Adult male (type of species). General colour above slaty black with a purplish-blue gloss, the hinder
neck and mantle more ashy; lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts, bastard wing,
primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, with slight remains of lighter brown edgings; tail-feathers blue-
black ; lores and crown of head like the back ; ear-coverts also slaty black, surmounted by a faint indication
of an iron-grey streak from above the fore part of the eye to about the end of the ear-coverts ; feathers
below the eye and cheeks deeper black, with a slight wash of ashy grey; sides of neck and entire throat
dull cindery grey; fore neck and rest of underparts clear chestnut or bay, including the thighs and under
tail-coverts ; axillaries also bay-coloured like the breast ; the under wing-coverts bay, except near the edge
of the wing,
0°65, wing 2°75, tail 2:5, tarsus 0°7. (Mus. Austr.)
Adult female. Different from the male. Above slaty grey, rather lighter on the crown of the head ; as
ereater coverts, bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills brown, with
where they are either dull ashy or are bay with ashy bases. Total length 5:3 inches, culmen
and median wing-coverts like the back ;
| tail-feathers dingy blackish brown; sides of crown paler grey than the top
evelid dusky slate-colour ; feathers below the eye hoary whitish; ear-
: ; which are somewhat washed with
narrow reddish-brown margins ;
of the head, which is like the back ;
hy grey, as also the sides of the neck,
gre) . ae
d with rufous, and gradually deepening into
d with rafous; axillaries and under wing-
coverts, sides of face, and cheeks as
rufous; throat slaty grey, the lower part and the fore neck washe
“th arts; thighs ashy, washe
the rich bay of the breast and underparts; thighs ashy, Wé 2 cr
F Total length 5°5 inches, culmen 0:65, wing
coverts slaty grey, the former edged with rufous near the ends. 4
30, tail 2:7, tarsus 0°7.
The two sexes are figured of the
loan of which we are indebted to Mr. E. P. Ramsay. [R. B. S.]
1 y ue »S or the
at c SIZC, S ( wh ft t il 1 es f
wt) eh =4 peg yf.
SECON SS. Poe
TER I
ore
Mintern Bros ump
5
0
SRI
WT
PAL
1
cy
1)
Al
(
d
ean Oak
U
POMAIRI
uth
del. et
W Hari
UAALINU ULL ANT) TOpETETOTTP TTT} TTT
a I) " " i
ee OEE ae) Ne
=
Si
POMAREA CASTANEIVENTRIS
Chestnut-bellied Flycatcher.
Monarcha castaneiventris, Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1858, p. 304.—Gray, Birds Trop. Isl. of the Pacific Ocea
50 Bi : cae é an
-? (1859).—Id. Hand-list of Birds, i. p. 320, no. 4793 (1869).—Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ete. iii —
p- 529 (1882). , te. ili, App.
Pomarea castaneiventris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iv. p. 435, pl. xi. fie. 2 (
' ) : 2 (1879).—Tristr. Ibis, 1879, p. 439.
Pomarea ? castaneiventris, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, etc. 11. p. 11 (1881).
Tuoucu described by M. Verreaux in 1858, the real home of the present species has only recently been
ascertained for certain. For many years its habitat was recorded as “ Oceania ;” but so unlike was it to any
Oceanic species of Flycatcher, that, in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds,’ the latter locality was regarded as doubtful.
Since that book was written, however, the bird has been met with in the Solomon Islands, thus fixing its
habitat beyond a doubt. Capt. Richards procured it at Makira Harbour in San Cristoval, and Mr. Ramsay
has received it from his collectors in the Solomon Islands. The latter gentleman has also described a
nearly allied species as P. rufocastanea, which was considered by Count Salvadori to be identical with
P. castanewentris ; but after comparing the two species, we consider them to be separable, and our
readers will find the distinguishing characters noted under the heading of the former bird.
The following is a copy of the description of the adult male given in the ‘ Catalogue of Birds,’ and drawn
up from the type in the British Museum :—
“General colour above glossy black; wings black, the quills somewhat browner; tail black ; sides of
face, sides of neck, throat, aad fore neck glossy black like the upper surface; remainder of une
surface of body chestnut ; under wing-coverts and axillaries chestnut, those near the edge of the ee
black ; quills ashy black below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0:7,
wing 3°6, tail 3, tarsus 0 75.”
The female differs from the male in being iron-grey instead of purplish black ; the breast and abdomen
are dark chestnut as in the male, but the throat is iron-grey. ie
The figures in the Plate are drawn from a pair of birds lent to us by Mr. E. P. Ramsay ; they represen
a male and female of the natural size. (R. B. S.J K i
Sy
S$
Sg
Q
Ss
Iss
=
2
S
%
PS
S
S
S
A
A
Ss
RN
‘ Yj
g see
W Hart del et lith
BASS ec PT ay,
tare aed) mei’ Cae at Oe
RO a Noe
we
a
— “3
We LA
San i gee
a Ai
ae Wi
POMA REA UGIE NSI S, Ramsay
Ugi-Island Flycatcher.
Pomarea (Monarcha) ugiensis, Rams;
) ugrensis, Ramsay, Journ. Linn. Soc. Z