OF NEW SOUTH WILIS. 271 



is almost rufous ; wings rich brown, the outer webs of the quills 

 above with a rufous shade ; tail above and below, and the undei- 

 tail-coverts, black ; the basal portion of the feathers on the fore- 

 head and a line over the eyes, lower portion of the ear-coverts, and 

 the throat white ; chest blackish, becoming brown on the breast, 

 each feather with a white shaft, and a triangular spot of white 

 at its tip, the remainder of the under surface brown ; under wing 

 coverts mottled brown and white. Bill and bristles black, lower 

 mandible white, its tip brown, legs black. 



Total length, 6-4in. ; wing 23; tail, 3*6; tarsus 1-2; bill from 

 forehead, 0'7 in, from gape 0*8 in. 



The wings of this species are very broad and comparatively 

 short, the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th quills nearly equal and longest, 

 the 8th equal to the 3rd. All the body feathers are more or less 

 decomposed. 



74 — Sauloprocta tricolor, Vieill ; Salvad et D'Alh. Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Gen. VII., p. 23. 



Muscicapa melaleuca, Quoy et Gaim, Voy. de VAstrol. I. p. 180. 



^.4,/. 3. 



On comparing the Port Moresby specimens with some from 

 New Ireland I can find no difi'erence between them, they are un- 

 doubtedly identical with. Muscicapa melaleuca of Quo J and Gaimard. 



In some of the adult males I find white dots on the throat and 

 chin feathers, they differ but little, if anything, except in size, 

 from the New South Wales S. motacilloides. 



75. — MiCR(ECA FLAviGASTER, Gould, Bds. Aust., fol. vol. II., pi. 94. 



Common in the neighbourhood of Port Moresby and on the 

 Laloki River. From Morton's notes T gather that this species 

 has considerable power of song, being heard at daylight in the 

 morning pouring forth its melodious warbling notes. When I 

 met with this same species on the Herbert River, in Queensland, 

 during the months of March and April, its singing had ceased, 

 this was just after the moulting season. Its nest and eggs are 

 scarcely to be distinguished from M. fascinans of New South 

 Wales. 



