GO. AKSES. 409 



under surface ; a black band across the 



breast kaiqn, p. 411, 



b. Collar round bind neck, lower throat, aud 



breast light orange or Naples ^-eUow wsularis, p. 412. 



Femiiles. 



a. With a white loral spot. 



a'. Head always grey; back orange, with the 

 wings of the same colour, the innermost 

 secondaries orange without any dark 

 centres ; rump and upper tail-coverts like 

 the back ; tail orange-chestnut, slightly 

 shaded with brown at the end latantcp, p. 411. 



6'. Head blackish or vei-y dark grey ; hinder 

 neck deep orange, but only a little darker 

 than the back, which is deep orange- 

 chestnut ; wings dark brown on the 

 inner webs, orange-chestnut externally, 

 the innermost secondaries of the same 

 colour; tail rufous-brown, the feathers 

 edged with chestnut felescophthalmus, p. 410. 



c'. Head grey ; round the hind neck an 

 orange collar, contrasting with the olive- 

 brown back insularis, p. 412. 



b. With an orange loral spot ; head black ; back 



dusky brown, as also the tail, contrasting 



with the orange hind neck arnensii^, p. 410. 



1. Arses telescophthalmus. 



Muscicapa telescophthalma, Garnot, Voy. CoquUle, i. pt. 2, p. 593, 



pi. 19. fig. 1. 

 Muscicapa enado. Less. Voy. CoquUle, i. pt. 2, p, 643, pi. 1.5. fig. 2 ; 



Sclater, Pr. Linn. Soc. 18o8, p. 181. 

 Arses telescophthalmus, Lesson, Traite, p. 387 ; Bp. Consp. L 



p. 326 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. viii. p. 398, ix. p. 24, 



X. p. 132 ; Ramsay, P>: Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 391 ; S/iarpe, 



Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. pp. 316, 49". 

 Monarcha telescophthalma, Sirains. Classif. B. ii. p. 257 ; Gray, Gen. 



B. 1. p. 260 ; id. P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 177, et 1859, p. 156 ; id. Cat. B. 



Neui Guinea, p. 30; id. P. Z. 6'. 1861, p. 435 ; Finsch, INeu-Guinea, 



p. 169; Gray, Hand-l. ^. i. p. 320, no. 4804. 

 Monacha telescophthalma, Sicains. Nat. Libr., Flycatchers, p. 140. 



Adult male. General colour glossy steel-black, the scapulars and 

 lower mantle-feathers white at their ends, where they adjoin the 

 lower back, which, with the rump, is white, the bases to the 

 feathers being grey ; wings entirely black ; upper tail-coverts and 

 tail black ; crown of head, sides of face and ear-coverts, fore part 

 of cheeks, chin, and upper throat black, the plumes of the head of 

 a velvety texture and with a slight steel gloss ; hinder part of 

 cheeks, sides of neck, and a collar round the hind neck, as well as 

 entire imder surface of body, pure white, including the under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries ; thighs black, as also the edge of the wing ; 

 " bill pearly grey ; feet dull leud-colour or ashy ; iris black ; fleshy 



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