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8. Monarcha inornatus (Gum.). 

 Evidently not rare on 8t. Aiguau. 



9. Monarcha chalybeocephalus lucidus (Gray). 

 Monarcha chaliiheocephalus is evidently .separable into several snbspecies : — 



a. Monarcha chalybeocephalus chalybeocephalus (Gam.). 

 T)-pe from New Ireland. Probably extending all over New Guinea to the 

 D'Entrecasteanx Islands. Specimens from the latter, however, seem often to have 

 rather large beaks, thus pointing towards M. c. lucidus. 



b. Monarcha chalybeocephalus nitens (Gray) ? ? 

 Specimens from the northern Moluccas, Batjau, and Halmabera, seem to be 

 trenerally siuallor than tj'jiical JA c. chali/beocrphnlus, bnt a large material slioiild bo 

 examined before " nitens " can be established as a valid form. 



c. Monarcha chalybeocephalus lucidus (Gray). 

 Lonisiade Archipelago — Sudest and St. Aiguan. The bill is decidedly larger in 

 both sexes in this form. 



'I. Monarcha chalybeocephalus nitidus (Gould). 

 The bill is much narrower and less hooked in the birds from Qneensland, and 

 the females have the hindneck somewhat darker. 



e. Monarcha chalybeocephalus rufolateralis ((iray) ? ? 

 The birds from the Am Islands have been united by Sharpe and Salvadori with 

 M. c. nitidus of Qneensland. They seem to me to stand somewhat between J/, r. nitidus 

 and M. c. chahjbeocephalus in the form of the bill, and Va.e female may be still darker 

 on the back than that of either of the other two forms, but the Am birds are 

 doubtless nearer to if. c. nitidus, and more material is required to establisli its 

 validity as a separate form. 



M. Monarcha melanopterus (J ray. 

 Of. Nov. ZooL. VI. p. 78 {antca). 



Of this rare bird Meek sent four males and o\\& female from St. Aignan. These 

 birds agree with those from Rossel Island and the type from Round Island in the 

 British Museum. The male has the " iris brown, feet and bill bluish slate-colonr" ; 

 the female has the " bill bluish slate-colonr witli a black tip." 



A nest and one egg were found on St. Aignan. The nest is fixed in a fork of a twig, 

 has a deep cup, and is composed of grasses, fibres, and rootlets, lined with grasses 

 and fibres, and covered outside with pieces of bark, dry leaves, and silk from cocoons. 

 The egg is like tliat of the following species, bnt very much smaller, measuring only 

 19-8 by 12-r mm. 



11. Monarcha guttula (Gam.). 

 Monarcha guttatus (orrorc) in Nov. Zoul. V. p. .525, Monarcha i/uttulatus 

 Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II. p. 22, sed Muscicapa guttula Garnot in 1 'o>j. Co<juille Zool- 

 I. p. 591, tab. 16, fig. 2, (descr. origin.), itaqne nunc : Monarcha guttula I 



