428 muscicai'iu.t:. 



with black bases to the inner webs ; tail black ; head and neck fiery 

 orange, including the sides of the neck and hinder part of ear- 

 coverts ; a frontal line, lores, feathers all round the eye and below 

 it, cheeks, throat, and fore neck glossy blue-black, the feathers 

 somewhat scaly in appearance; remainder of under surface rich 

 orange- yellow ; thighs black ; under wing-coverts rather paler 

 orange-yellow ; edge of wmg black ; quills dusky blackish below, 

 with pale yellow edgings to the inner webs. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0-65, wing 3-05, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-8. (Mas. Civic. Genov.) 



Adult female. Different from the male. Upper surface of body 

 olive-brown, with somewhat of a yellow tinge, the upper tail-coverts 

 bright yellow ; head, sides of face, and underparts orange-yellow, 

 inclining to fiery orange on the head, which is somewhat mottled 

 with dusky olive tips to the feathers ; wing-coverts dull-brown, 

 edged with yellow, very broadly on the median series ; quills dull 

 brown, edged with olive, the inner secondaries with yellow ; tail 

 brown, shaded with olive, especially on the outer webs. Total 

 length 5-7 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-9, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-75. {Mus. 

 Civic. Genov.) 



Hub. Island of Misori, in the Bay of Geelvink. 



a. (S ad. sk. Misori (Von Rosenherfj). Leyden Museum [P.]. 



24. Piezorhynchus aruensis. 



Monarcha chrysomela {nee Gam.), Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 177, et 1861, 



p. 435; id. J3. Netv Guinea, p. 30; Finsch, Nm-Guinea, p. 169; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 320, no. 4805. 

 Monarcha aruensis, Salvad. Ann. Mvs. Civic. Genov. vi. p. 309; 



Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 497. 

 Monarcha melanonota, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 100 ; Goidd, B. Neto 



Guinea, part v. 



Adult male (type of species). Lower back, mantle, and scapulars 

 black; rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellow; tail entirely 

 black ; wings black, with a large patch of yellow, formed by the 

 least, median, and inner greater wing-coverts being entirely yellow, 

 the outer greater coverts black, with a yellow tip ; innermost secon- 

 daries broadly edged with yellow ; crown of head and nape orange- 

 yellow, the black feathers of the upper mantle adjoining having 

 also slight yellow margins ; a narrow frontal line, lores, feathers 

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

 entire throat glossy blue-black ; in front of the eye a patch of 

 white ; hinder part of ear-coverts, sides of neck, and entire under 

 surface of body bright yellow ; thighs black ; under wing-coverts 

 yellowish white, edge of wing black ; quills dusky blackish below, 

 edged with whitish along the inner web. Total length 5-4 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 2-65, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-65. {Mus. Genov.) 



Adult female. General colour above olive-green, slightly yellower 

 on the head and rump ; wings and tail ashy brown, the feathers 

 edged with olive-grccn ; .sides of face olive-green, tlie ear-coverts 

 slightly more dusky ; below the fore part of the eye a spot of white ; 



