REPORT ON THE BIRDS — THE MOLUCCAS AND THE ARROU ISLANDS. 65 



1. Sauropatis chloris, Bodd. 



Sauropatis chloris, Bodd. : Salvad., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 83. 

 [No. 293, male ; 294, female. Eyes black ; legs have a dull brown tinge ; base of 

 the lower mandible white, the rest black. J 



2. Monarcha inornatus, Gam. 



Muscieapa inornuta, Gam., Voy. Coq. Zool. Atlas, pi. xvi. fig. 2, 1826, and i. 2, p. 591, 1828 



New Guinea (type examined). 

 Dnjmophila cinerascens, Tenun., PI. Col, 130, f. 2, 1827, Timor (type examined). 

 Monarcha ftdviveniris, Hartl., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1867, p. 830, Echiquier Islands (type examined), 

 Monarcha inornatus, Salvad., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 83; Sliarpe, Cat., vol. iv. p. 431. 



[No. 292. Male. Eyes brown; legs and bill slate-blue, the bill lighter than legs. 

 Stomach contained insects.] 



After having examined the types mentioned above, and having compared together 

 many specimens from Timor, Banda, Amboyna, Gorarn, Tijoor, Ternate, Halmahera, 

 Batcliian, Tifore, Sula, Ki Islands, Arrou Islands, Mysol, New Guinea (Sorong, Dorei, and 

 Mannam), Mafor, the Admiralty Islands, and the Echiquier group, I have arrived at the con- 

 clusion that they all belong to one species. The Drymophila cinerascens, Temrn., represents 

 the fully adult bird; and the Muscieapa inornata, Garn., is the young stage of the same, dif- 

 fering from the adult in the reddish colour of the outer edgings of the remiges. Under the 

 name of M. fulviventris Hartlaub has described a specimen from the Echicpiier group, with 

 the abdomen rather pale, exactly like others from the other localities mentioned above. 



3. Rhipidura squamata, S. Mull. (PL XVIII. fig. 2). 



Rhipidura squamata, S. Mull., Verh. Laud, en Volkenk., p. 189, 1839-44, Banda (type 



examined); Salvad, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 84; Sharpe, Cat., vol. iv. p. 31S. 

 Rhipidura griseicauda, Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., vol. vii. p. 924, sp. 20, 1875, Waigiou. 



[No. 289. Female. Eyes hazel. Stomach contained insects.] 



This species is allied to R. rufifrons, Lath., from Australia, from which it differs in 

 having the forehead black in the middle and white on the sides ; the tail is grey, white- 

 tipped, and with scarcely any reddish colour near the base. S. Miiller described this 

 species with the tail In-own-black, instead of grey; and this mistake made me believe 

 that the bird from Waigiou, described by me, was different. 



4. Pachycephala phaonota, Salvad. (PL XVIII. fig. 1). 



Myiolestes phajonotits,Wu\L, Mus. Lugd. (type examined); Dp., Consp., voL i. p. 358, 1850 (Banda). 

 Pachycephala brunnea, Wall., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1865, p. 478 (Banda), Salwatty (type examined). 

 Pachycephala sen&r, Pelz.,Verh. K. Zool. Bot. Gesellsch,Wien, 1872, p. 429, Arrou (type examined). 

 Pachycephala phceonota, Salvad., Proc Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 84. 



[No. 290, male ; 291, female. Eyes light hazel; legs flesh-colour. Stomach con- 

 tained insects.] 



(zool. chall. exp. — part viu. — 1880.) 11 9 



