BY E. P. RAMSAY, F.L.S., 81 



Adult female and young male. — The female is slightly larger 

 than the male, all the upper surface dull brown ; tail blackish 

 brown, three outer feathers largely tipped with white, the 

 secondary coverts white, washed with light rufous ; the sides of the 

 throat and of the neck, the chest, and sides of the breast, light 

 rusty yellow ; flanks washed with the same tint ; abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts white ; the throat with elongate feathers of a 

 light brown tinged with rusty ; bill blackish horn color ; legs and 

 feet lead-blue. 



Progress towards maturity. — The brown of the upper surface and 

 wing feathers becomes black ; the rusty hue of the secondary 

 coverts, and of the under surface white ; in one immature 

 specimen I find the throat feathers of the same rusty yellow hue 

 as the chest and sides. 



This fine, distinct species comes near to Monareha loricata of 

 Wallace, and M. leucotis of Gould, but is quite distinct from them 

 and also from M. leucura, (Gr. R. Gray). 



I have named it after Capt. Brodie of the Schooner "Ariel," 

 by whose instrumentality this fine collection was made. 



Loc. Lango, Q-audalcanar. 



37. — Satjloprocta cockerelli, sp. nov. 



Adult male. — The whole of the iipper surface, the head, and 

 the throat, jet black; the wings and tail, blackish brown; the 

 inner secondaries and scapulars broadly margined and tipped 

 with white, which forms a broad white band down the wing ; 

 over the eye a narrow isolated spot of white ; the chest and breast, 

 black ; the feathers on the sides of the throat adjacent to the 

 ear-coverts, very slightly tipped with a subterminal spot of white, 

 those on the chest conspicuously tipped with a lanceolate oblong 

 subterminal spot of the same color, which increases in size on 

 the breast feathers, and joins the white of the abdomen where 

 the feathers are white with a narrow black margin ; centre of 



