(!2. MONARCHA. 429 



throat and breast dull yellow, washed with olive, the cheeks and 

 chin dusky ash-colour ; ahdoraeu and under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow, the flanks and thighs washed with olive-greenish ; under 

 wing-coverts pale yellow ; biU bluish, the tip black ; feet lead- 

 colour ; iris dark. Total length 5'9 inches, culmcn 0-6, wing 2-65, 

 tail 2*3, tarsus 0"(J5. 



06s. Count Salvador! having also lent me a pair of birds from 

 New Guinea (Dorey <5' , Andai $ ), there can be no doubt that the 

 New-Guinea bird, M. melanonota. Sclater, is the same as the Aru- 

 Island species, as already suggested by me (J. Linn. Soc. I. c). 



Ilab. Ai'u Islands, New Guinea, Waigiou, Mysol. 



a, 6. c? ad. ; e, (Z. $ ad. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



e,f. S ad. sk. Aru Islands ( Von Ley den Museum [P.J. 



Rosenberg). 



(J. S .id. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.l 



h, i. d' ad. ; k. $ ad. sk. Mysol. A. R. Wallace, Esq. fC.]. 



I. (S ad. sk. Arfak Mountains, Leyden Museum [P.J. 



N. W. NewGuinea. 



G2. MONARCHA. 



Type. 



Drymophila, pt., Tenim. PI. Col. (1826, rwc Sw.). 

 Monarcha, Vic/. ^- Horsf. Tr. I.inn. Soc. xv. p. 254 



(1820) . . . .' M. raelanopsis. 



Monacha, Sxmins. Monoyr. Flycatchers, p. 140 (c. 1838) M. chrysomelas 



Head of Monarcha mclanopsls. 



Ranye. Australia, Papuan islands and Moluccas, Timor group, 

 Mackenzie group. 



Keij to the Species. 



a. Upper surface uniform, the mantle not dift'eiiug 

 from the cro^vni in coloiu-. 

 a'. Forehead .and throat black. 



a". Tail and wings not perceptibly darker tliau 

 the upper surface ; quills dusky brown, 

 edged with grey, like the back ; abdomen 



orange-buff or pale cinnamon nulaiio2}sis, p. 430. 



b". Tail and wings black, in strong contrast to the 



back ; quills black, without grey edging. 



a'". Thighs black ; breast and abdomen deep 



chestnut ; the gi'ey of the uppeniarts 



and of the chest very pale, /. e. light 



pearly grey ; entire throat black 'anesceus, p. 43L 



