2. MICRCECA. 123 



Range. Coiifiucd to Australia, Now Guinea, and the adjacent 

 islands. 



Bill of Micrxca fascinans. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Belly and under tail-coverts white. 



«'. Larger ; wing 3-45 inches : outer tail-feathers 



entirely pure white; axillaries light brown . fascinans, p. 12.'5. 



b'. Smaller'; wing 3-35 inches : outer tail-feather 

 blackish brown, white at tip of inner web 

 and along the outer one _. assi milts, p. 124. 



b. Belly and under tail-coverts yellow ; head uni- 



form with back. 



a". Larger ; vnng 3-1 inches : lower man- 

 dible yellowish ; feet pale ; olive-green 

 above'; below very pale yellow with 

 olive-green sides to the body Jlavovirescens, p. 125. 



b". Smaller ; -wing 2-75 inches : lower man- 

 dible dark horn-coloiu-, the upper one 

 brown ; legs blackish ; olive-brown 

 above, more or less tinged with yellow ; 

 below pale yellow, the sides scarcely 

 darker ; throat white or paler yellow ; 

 lores duU whitish fiavigaster, p. 126. 



1. Micrceca fascinans. 



Fascinating Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. ii. p. 197. 



Loxia fascinans, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. xlvi. 



Myiagi-a macroptera, Vig. ^- Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 254 (type 



examined). 

 Muscicapa platvrhjmcha, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de V Astrolabe, Zool. i. 



Ois. p. 178, pi. 11. fig. 1. 

 Micrceca macroptera, Gould, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 172 ; id. B. Austr. n. 



pi. 93 ; JReich. V. Neuh. p. 221. 

 Myiagra fascinans, Graij, Gen. B. i. p. 261. 



Micrceca leucophaa, Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 177, no. 10.36. _ 

 Micrreca fascinans, Bp. Consp. i. p. 320; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. 



p. 258; Bamsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 686; id. Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. IV. ii. pt. 2, p. 183. 

 Muscicapa fascinans. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 323, no. 4855. 



Adult. General coloar above ashy brown, the upper tail-coverts 



2. M. superciUosa (Wall.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 324, is Pki/lloscopus pres- 

 bytis (Miiller), ex Timor. 'Cf. Seebohm, ' Ibis," 1877, p. 83. 



