ARSES ARUENSISs,

Little Frilled-necked

Sharpe.
Flycatcher,

Arses telescophthalmus, Salvad. & D’ Albert. (nec Garn.), Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. v
ix. p. 24 (1876).—D’ Albert. op. cit. x. p. 19 (1877) —Ramsay i
(1877).—Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. pp. 316, 497 (1878), .

Arses aruensis, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mus. i. No. 5, p. 21 (1879).—Id. Cat. B. B
Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoy. xiv, p- 59 (1879), ae

i. p. 819 (1875).—Salvad. op. cit
roc. Linn. Soe. N. S. Near p. 391

rit. Mus. iv. p. 410 (1879).—

1 é ade , drawines of > 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

     
    
    
    
   
   
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
  
  
 
    
  
  
   

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