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57. MACH-ffiRORHTNCHUS. 



Type. 



Macliajrirhyncbus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 277 M. ilaviventer. 



Macheirhynchus, ScM. N. T. D. iv. p. 43. 

 Macheirhamplius, Schl. torn. cit. p. 58 {lapsu, nee Westenn.). 



Cf. Salvad. AttiR.Accad. Torino, x. p. 369 (1875). 



Bill of Machyprorhi/nchusjiaviventer. 

 Range. Northern Australia, New Guinea and adjacent islands. 



Key to the Species. 



a. With no patch of black on the hreast, which is 

 entirely yellow ; chin white. 

 a'. Ear-coverts black ; forehead and eyebrow yel- 



Iq-sv Jlaviventer, p. .890. 



b'. Ear-coverts yellow. 



a". Forehead and eyebrow yellow xanthogenys, p. 391. 



6". Forehead and eyebrow white albifrons, p. 392. 



6. With a large black patch on the breast ; chin 



yellow, like the throat nigripectus, p. 392. 



1. Machaerorhynchus flaviventer. 



Machffirirhynchus flaviventer, Gould, R Z. S. 1850, p. 277, pi. 33 

 id. B. Austr. Suppl. p. 21, pi. 11 ; id. Ilandb. B. Austr. i. p. 257 

 Ramsay, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 384 ; Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 24 

 Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. A\S. W. ii. p. 182. 



Machffirirhynchus iiaviventris, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 192 ; Finsch, 

 Neu-Guinea, p. 168. 



Myiagra flaviventer. Gray, Hand-l. 5. i. p. 329, no. 4937. 



Macheirhynchus flaviventer, Schl. N. T. D. iv. p. 43. 



Machferoi-hvnchus flaviventer, Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, x. 

 p. 373. 



Adult. General colour above olive-green, yellow on the rump ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail black, the centre feathers obsoletely, 

 the rest more broadly tipped with white, increasing in extent on 

 the outer ones, which are also white along the outer web ; wings 

 black, the median and greater series of coverts broadly tipped with 

 white, the primary -quiUs narrowly edged with white, the secondaries 

 with yellow, the inner ones more broadly again with white ; forehead 

 and a broad eyebrow, including the upper edge of the eyelid, bright 

 yellow ; feathers in front of and below the eye, including the lower 

 edge of the eyelid, black ; chin, fore part of cheeks, and upper part 

 of throat white ; hinder part of cheeks and entire under surface of 

 body bright yellow, the flanks slightly greener : thighs black ; under 



