01. PIKZORHYl^CHUS. 419 



tipped with black, with traces of a white spot at the tip of the fourth ; 

 forehead, lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts black, as also 

 the plumes at the angle of the mouth and the chin and centre of 

 throat ; hinder part of cheeks, sides of throat, fore neck, and chest 

 bright orange-rufous, paler on the sides of the bodj- ; centre of 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white : thighs white, with 

 dusky bases ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries white ; quills greyish 

 brown below, ashy along the edge of the inner webs. Total length 

 5'8 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 2-9, tail 2-8, tarsus 0"7. 



Adult female. Xot to be distinguished from the male. Total 

 length inches, wing 2-7, tail 2'G, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Timor group of islands. 



a, 6. c? 2 ad. sk. Timor. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [0.1. 



c. Ad. sk. Timor. A. E. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



7. Piezorhynchus gouldi. 



Monarcba trivirgata, Guuhl, Syn. B. Aiixfr. pt. ii. ; id. B. Austr. fol. ii. 



pi. 96; id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 2G3; Beichenb. Vog. Neuholl. 



pp. 227, 2»7. 

 Mouarclia gouldi, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 352 ; id. Hand-l. B. i, 



p. 320, no. 4798 ; Bamsay, Proc. Linn. Sue. N. S. W. ii. p. 182. 

 Monarcba albiventris, Goidd, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 217 ; id. B. Amtr. fol. 



Suppl. pi. 13 ; Gray, Haud-l. B. i. p. 320, no. 4803 ; Ramsay, Proc. 



Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 182. 



Adult male. Like 21. trivirgatus, and only to be distinguished by 

 the absence of white on the fourth outer tail-feather, the three 

 outermost only tipped with white. Total length inches, culmen 

 U'55, wing 3, tail 2-9, tarsus 0"7. 



Hah. North-east Australia. 



a. S ad.sk. Caipe York {J. Macyillivray). Capt. Stanley [P.l. 



b. cJ ad. sk. Eockingham Bay. Capt. Stanley [P.J. 



8. Piezorhynchus diadematus. 

 Monarcba diadematus, Sahad. Ann. Mas. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 321. 



Adult male. General colour above dark ashj- grey, the least wing- 

 coverts like the back : median and greater coverts and quills brown, 

 edged with the same grey as the back, less distinctly on the quills ; 

 upper tail-coverts darker grey than the back ; tail-feathers dark 

 sepia-brown, the two outer ones with a white spot at the tip ; frontal 

 baud black, separated from the crown by a band of orange-rufous ; 

 feathers above and round the eye, ear-coverts, fore part of cheeks, 

 and a large throat-spot black ; hinder part of cheeks, lower throat, 

 and breast pale orange-buff; remainder of under surface of body 

 white, with a tinge of orange-buff on the flanks ; thighs grey ; under 

 wing-covcrts and edge of wing dark grey ; axillaries white ; quiUs 

 dark brown below, ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 5'7 inches, culmen (i-,"),'), wing 2-9, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Similar to the m.ale, but having the orange-buff of 



