OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 113 



observable in the females of the latter, the rust-red of the under 

 surface is continued to the flanks. Total length, Q.7 ; bill from 

 forehead, 0.75 ; from nostril, 0.4 ; Irom gape, 0.8. 



It is certainly neither M. concinna, nor M. latirostris ; but Mr. 

 Masters informs me he has received a specimen of M. nitida 

 (Gould), from Port Darwin. 



One specimen only. 



Loc. Hall Sound. 



51. — RhIPIDURA GULAEIS, Mull. 



Salvad. and D' Albert, t. c. p. 820; Salvad. op. cit. IX. p. 24; 

 Sharpe, op. cit. XIII., p. 498; R. isura, Gould; setosa, Q. et 

 Oaim, Voy. de VAstrol. I. p. 181., -pi. 4., fig. 4 (1830) ; Bamsay 

 List of Aust. Bds. in op. cit. p. 182. 



I find very little difi^erence between Australian specimens of 7?. 

 iswa (Grould), those from the Duke of York Islands, and those 

 at the present under consideration from New Guinea ; I believe 

 them to be mere varieties of one and the same species. 



Loc. Hall Sound. 



52. — Sauloprocta tricolor, (F.) 

 Salvad. and D^ Albert, t. c. p. 819; Salvad. op. cit. IX. p. 24; 



Ramsay, op. cit. I. p, 392 ; Monarcha tricolor, Sharpe, op. cit. 



XIII. p. 498. 



Closely allied to if not identical with, Sauloprocta motacilloides 



(V. and H.), from which it differs only slightly in size, habits, 



actions, and voice, exactly the same as the Australian species. 



(Masters.) 

 Loc. Katau. 



53, PlEZORHYNCHUS ALECTO. 



Drymophila alecto, Temm.,pl. col. 430 ; Piezorhynchus nitidus, 

 Gould, Bds. Aust. fol. vol. II. pt. 88 ; Sharpe, op. cit. XIII. pp. 

 316, 498; Ramsay, op. cit. I., 391 ; id. List. Aust. Bds. in t. c.,p. 

 1 82 ; Muscicapa chalybeocephalus. Gam., Voy. de la Coq. Zool. I. 

 p. 589, Atlas, t. U,fig. 2. ( ? ). 



Plentiful among the Mangroves. (G. M.) 



Loc. Katau. 



