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.

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