ti]. PIEZOKHYXCHTJS. 421 



most ; forehead, lores, feathers above aud below the eje, ear-coverts, 

 feathers at base of lower inaudible, and throat blue-black ; behind 

 the ear-coverts a white line running down the sides of the head ; 

 cheeks, sides of throat, and under surface of body bright orange- 

 rufous ; centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; 

 thighs dusky grey ; under wing-coverts white, those near the edge 

 of the wing black ; quills ashy brown below, edged with pale fulvous 

 along the inner web. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3, 

 tail 2-9, tarsus 0-75, 



Hah. Louisiade archipelago. 



a. (S ad. sk. Round Island, J. Macgillivray, Esq. [P.]. 



Louisiade archipelago. (Type of species.) 



11. Piezorhynchns dichrous. 



Muscicapa manadensis, Quoi/et Gaim. Voy. de F Astral. Zool. i. p. 170, 



pi. 3. fig. 3 ; Oustal. Bull. Soc. PMlom. 1878, p. 58. 

 Hypothymis maurtdensis, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 652, note ; Walden, 



Tr. Z. S. vii. p. QQ. 

 Monarcha dichroa; Gray, P. Z. S. 18.59, p. lo6 ; ul. P. Z. S. 1861 , 



p. 435 ; Finsch, Xeu-Guinea, p. 169; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 320, 



no. 4796. 

 Myiagra menadensis, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 352 ; id. Iland-l. B. i. 



p. 328, no. 4921. 

 Monarcha dichrous, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vii. p. 819, x. 



p. 132. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above glossy purplish 

 black; wings and tail entirely black, edged with the same purplish 

 black as the back ; sides of face, sides of neck, and entire throat 

 and fore neck purplish black, like the upper surface, the plumes of 

 the latter tipped with white where they adjoin the breast, which, 

 with the rest of the under surface is white ; thighs black ; under 

 wing-coverts white, those along the edge of the wing black ; quills 

 ashy black, lighter along the edge of the inner web ; " biU black ; 

 feet ashy; iris black" (D'Albcrtis). Total length 6-9 inches, 

 culmen 0-6.5, wing 3-2, tail 2-95, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Diifers from the male in being more cindery black 

 with a distinct gloss, instead of being purplish black. Total length 

 6-2 inches, wing 3-2.5, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-7. 



An individual marked " male " by Laglaize is like the adult 

 female, but has hoary edgings to the feathers of the throat and 

 crown. It is probablj' a young male, but shows no other signs of 

 immaturity. 



Hah. New Guuiea. 



a. Ad. sk. New Guinea. A. R. \N''allace, Esq. [C.]. 



( Type of species.) 



b, c. (5 2 ad. .«k. Amberbaki, New Guinea. M. Laglaize I C.J. 

 d. cS jun. sk. Auiberbaki, New Guinea. M. L.iglaizo [O.J. 



