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.

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