61. riKzoKurxcHus. 4jy 



duskybrown; flanks pale chestnut; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries like the breast ; quiUs dusky brown below, with rufous edgings 

 to the inner webs Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-15 

 tail 2"y, tarsus 0-9. ° ' 



Obs. The present species differs from P. alecto only in having a 

 very much longer and thinner bill, but the females are distinguifh- 

 able by the characters given in the key. Neither in the British 

 Museum nor m the series collected by Dr. Eeccari, and lent to me 

 by Count Salvadori IS there an adult male from the Am Islands. 

 Nevertheless I believe that the birds from the latter locality are 

 Identical with P. «...?„., j,idging from the narrowness of the^iU 

 and the exactly similar coloration of the females 



Islands" '"^ °''^''''™ --^"^^^l'^' as far south as Port Denison ; Aru 

 a, b J ad. St. Port Es.ington. Dr. Sibbald ( P.l 



: i L 8k I'l Essington. Capt. Chambers [P.]- 



e. cJjuv.sk. Port Essington. J. B. Jukes, Esq fP 1 



/, .</. d juv. ; h. 2 juv. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. WaUace, Esq [^b.]. 



(Tv|3es of P. rufolateralis.) 



3. Piezorhynchus rubiensis. 



Tchitrea rubiensis, Meyer, Sitz. k. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 494 

 Monarcha mentahs, Salmd. Ann. Mm. Civic. Gmov. yLp. 310(1874^ 

 Monardia rubiensis, 8alvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. Si. p. S, x! 



Adult male (type of species). General colour rufous-brown, with 

 somewhat of a greyish shade on the crown; wing-covert^ ^Ike 

 the back; quills dusky brown, externaUy mfous ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail rufous ; frontal plumes, lores, sides of face, and under sur- 

 tace ot body rufous, much paler and inclining to white on the lower 

 abdomen ;clim and upper throat black ; under wing-coverts like the 

 breast. Total length 6-0 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-55, f^^U 3 3 

 tarsus 0-7. {Mus. Civic. Genov.) , rau o ^, 



Adult female (Andai, Bndja). Differs from the foregoing in 

 wanting the black throat Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-65, 

 wing 3-6, tad i-2, tarsus 0-7. (Mus. Civic. Genov ) 



Ihe colour of the under surface in the last-mentioned bird is a 

 nch foxy red, and the wings and tail are chestnut ; this is probably 

 the natural colour of the species, as the t.-pe was preserved in spirit^ 

 and has evidently faded a good deal. 



£fab. N^rth-westem New Guinea. 



4. Piezorhjnichus bernsteiui. 



Monarcha bernsteini, .Sahad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 322. 

 ArMt female (f^aHolo, Salwati, Bernstein ■ t^•pe of species) Ge- 

 neral colour above dark bluish slate-colour, ihe head exactly like 

 ^Li"" -r ^ ? *^' ^•iDg-coverts: quills duskv bkckish, exte^naUy 

 bSfr^T, -■ r-" •;^' '\' ""''^^ "PPer-tail-cover;. and taU " 

 bldck, the three outer tail-feathers tipped with white, less extensive 



