61. PIEZ0RHY\CHU3. 423 



spots at all ; white tips to tlie tail-feathers also smaller. Wing 

 2-8 inches, tail 2'7, tarsus 0"Go. In the quite immature bird 

 {M. c/nseif/idaris of Gray) the breast is tinged with rusty orange. 

 Hub. New Guinea, Aru Islands, Mysol, Waigiou. 



a. Ad. sk. Moinile, near Port Moresby, 0. C. Stone, Esq. [C.]. 



S.E. New Guinea. 



b. (S ad. sk. Karons, New Guinea, April M. Laglaize [C.]. 



1877. 



c. d. cJ ad. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l 

 e. cJ juv. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



(Type of 31. griseigxdai-is.) 



f, g. S ad. sk. Mysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



'h, i. 2 juv. sk. M^ysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.1 



k. S ad. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



14. Piezorhynchus morotensis. 



Adult femde. General colour above slaty grey ; wings dark brown, 

 the coverts deep black : upper tail-coverts and tail black, the two 

 outer feathers broadly tipped with white ; a broad frontal band of 

 black ; sides of face, feathers above the eye, and car-coverts pur- 

 plish black ; fore part of cheeks and throat also purplish black, not 

 extending to the jugular region and ending in a point ; hinder 

 part of cheeks and sides of neck, as well as entire under surface 

 of body from the jugulum downwards, pure white ; thighs black ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white, excepting the ones near 

 the edge of the wing, which form a black patch. Total length 

 6 inches, culmen O"fio, wing 2'95, tail 2*7'5, tarsus 0*65. 



Hah. Morotai or Morty Island, Moluccas. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Morty Island. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



15. Piezorhynchus leucotis. 



Monarcha leucotis, Gould, P. Z. S. 18-50, p. 101 ; id. B. Amtr. Sii]>pl. 

 ]il. 10 ; Grag, Cat. B. Xew Guinea, p. 30 ; id. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 435; 

 Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 169; Gould, Ilandb. B. Austr. i. p. 264; 

 Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 320, no. 4792; Batnsag, Pr. Linn. Sac. 



N. S. W. ii. p. 182. 



Adult. General colour above glossy black, the upper tail-coverts 

 white ; tail black, all but the four centre feathers tipped with white, 

 increasing greatly in extent towards the outermost, which has a 

 veiy broad white end, even extending some way up the outer web ; 

 wings black, the coverts broadly tipped with white, the innermost 

 median and greater ones pure white, forming a large patch ; the 

 inner secondaries broadly edged with white on their outer webs ; 

 sides of face black, with the exception of the ear-coverts, which are 

 white, as well as a spot in front of the eye and another larger one 

 above the ear-coverts, from which it is separated by a narrow line 

 of black ; throat white, with more or less concealed black bases ; 

 rest of under surface of body light ashy, the abdomen and under 



