2. MICHCECA. 125 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 4-5 inches, wing 

 3-2, tail 2, tarsus 0-6. 



A specimen collected by Mr. Elsey differs slightly in having the 

 wing smaller (3 inches), and in the primary-coverts having trian- 

 gular spots of white at the tip ; the latter I believe to be remains of 

 immature plumage. 



ffab. Western Australia : Gulf of Carpentaria. 



u. cJ ad. sk. Moore's River, Western Aus- J. Gould, Esq. [C]. 

 tralia, Aug. 29, 1842. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Near the Salt River, Western J. Gould, Esq. [C.]. 



Australia, Oct. 17, 1839. 



c. (S imm. sk. N.W. Australia. J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Micrceca flavovirescens. 



MicroBca ? flavovirescens, Grai/, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 178 (type examined) ; 



id. Cat. B. New Guitiea, p. 30. 

 Micrceca flavovirescens, Finsch, Nen-Guinea, p. 170; Salvad. Sf 



B" Albert. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 817 ; Salvad. op. cit. viii. 



p. 398, X. p. 134. 

 Muscicapa flavovirescens. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 324, no. 4858. 



Adult male. General colour above dull olive-green, a little duller 

 on the head; least wing-coverts like the back, the median and 

 greater series, as well as the quills, brown, externally washed with 

 the same olive-green as the back ; the edgings to the quUls rather 

 more yellow ; tail-feathers brown, with olivaceous yellow margins ; 

 lores obscure dusky white ; round the eye a circlet of pale yellow 

 feathers ; ear-coverts and sides of face generally olive-green, with 

 narrow whitish shaft-lines to the former ; cheeks dusky olive washed 

 with yellow ; under surface of body pale lemon-ycUow, brighter on 

 the centre of the chest and on the abdomen, the under tail-coverts 

 paler and more white ; sides of the body olive-green, rather yellower 

 on the flanks ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow, the 

 lower series greyish brown ; the inner lining of the quills greyish 

 brown with ashy edges along the inner webs ; " bill dusky horn- 

 brown, the lower mandible yellow : feet yellow ; iris black " (D'Al- 

 hertis). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-15, tail 2-45, 

 tarsus 0"6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but smaller. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 3*1, tail 2-5, tarsus 0'6. 



Hah. Aru Islands, Mysol, Waigiou, New Guinea. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. $ ad., c. ad. .-k. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 

 d, e. Ad. sk. Mysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq. f C.l. 

 f. S ad. sk. Mysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l. 

 V/. 5 ad. sk. Waigiou. A. R. AVallace, Esq. [C.]. 

 /(, ;. Ad. sk. Arfak Mountains^ M. Laglaize [C.]. 



N.W. New Gumea. 



