126 MCSCICAPID.'E, 



4. Micrceca flavigaster. 



Micrceca flavigaster, Gould, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 132 ; id. B. Attstr. folio, 



ii. pi. 94; Jacq. et Puck. Voy. Pule Sud, texte,iii. p. 79 ; Bji. Consp. 



i. p. 321 ; Rnchenb. Viig. Neuholl. p. 96, no. 408 ; Gould, Handb. B. 



Austr. i. p. 261 ; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 170 ; Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, 



p. 586 ; Salvad. ^ H Albert. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 817 ; 



Salvad. op. cit. viii. p. 398, ix. p. 23 ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Sue. xiii. 



p. 498; Eamsay, Pr. Linn. Sac. N. S. W. ii. pt. 2, p. 182. 

 Gobe-niouche verdin, Hombr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. xii. 



bis, iig. 5. 

 Myiagra flavigaster, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 261. 

 Muscicapa flavigaster, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 324, no. 4857. 

 Micrceca Iffita, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 323 (type 



examined). 



Adult. Above olivaceous brown, a little more dusky on the head ; 

 wings rather browner than the back, the feathers narrowly mar- 

 gined with olivaceous ; upper tail-coverts and tail brown, exter- 

 nally edged with olivaceous, the three outer feathers obscurely tipped 

 with white on the inner web ; plumes in front of the eye dull 

 whitish ; feathers round the eye dusky white ; ear-coverts duU 

 brown, with narrow hair-like shaft-lines of white ; cheeks and 

 throat dull white ; rest of under surface yellow, paler on the under 

 tail-coverts ; sides of the upper breast duU brown ; lower abdomen 

 and vent white ; under wing-coverts yellow ; lower surface of qi;ills 

 ashy brown, with yeUomsh-white edgings along their inner webs; 

 bill dark horn-brown in skin, paler at the base of the lower man- 

 dible ; " bill dusky above, yellowish underneath ; feet duU ashy ; 

 iris black ; " (D^Albertis) ; " feet blackish grey ; iris blackish brown " 

 (Gould). Total length 4-6 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2-75, tail 2, 

 tarsus 0"55. 



Yoiim/. Browner, and mottled with triangular tips of dull white 

 to the feathers, very distinct on the wing-coverts (Mas. Genov.). 

 Fresh moulted yoimg birds would seem to be much yellower below 

 than adults. 



Obs. Count Salvadori kindly lent me the type of his Micrceca Iceta, 

 but I could not separate the species from 31. flavigaster. 



Hub. Northern Australia and New Guinea. 



a. Ad. sk. Port Essington. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Port Moresby, S.E. New Guinea. 0. C. Stone, Esq. [C.j. 



c. Ad. sk. Port Essington. 



3. ALSEONAX. ^ 



Type. 

 Alseonax, Cabams, 3Ius. Hem. Th. i. p. 52 (1850) A. adusta. 



Range. Africa ; India and Ceylon ; Burmese countries, ranging 

 north through China and Japan ; Malayan peninsula and islands. 



