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becomes very animated, and is continually flying about and 

 beneath the branches of the trees ; it does not capture insects, 

 like the true Flycatchers, on the wing, but obtains them while 

 hopping about from branch to branch, after the manner of 

 the Pach^cephalce. It has a rather loud whistling note, which 

 being often repeated tends considerably to enliven the woods 

 in which it dwells. 



The Monarclia carinata does not inhabit Tasmania or South 

 Australia; its great nursery is evidently the south-eastern 

 portion of the country. 



Forehead, lores, and throat jet-black ; all the upper surface 

 grey ; wings and tail brown ; sides of the neck and the chest 

 light grey ; abdomen and under tail-coverts rufous ; bill 

 beautiful light blue-grey, the tip paler than the base ; legs 

 bluish lead-colour ; irides black ; inside of the mouth greyish 

 blue. 



In all probability, the females and the young males of the 

 year are destitute of the black mark on the face. 



Sp. 153. MONARCHA TRIVIRGATA. 



Black-fronted Flycatcher. 



Drf/mophila trivirgata, Temm. PI. Col. 418. fig. 1. 

 Monarcha trivirgata, Gould in Syn. Birds of Australia, part ii. 



Monarcha trivirgata, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. ii. pi. 96. 



Although the Monarcha trivircjata has been known to na- 

 tm'alists for many years, it is still a scarce bird, very few speci- 

 mens occurring in any of the numerous collections sent home 

 from Australia, which is doubtless occasioned by its true 

 habitat not having been yet discovered. The specimens seen 

 have been procured in the Moreton Bay district of the east 

 coast. 



All the examples that have come under my notice have 

 been marked precisely alike, wdth the exception of one procured 

 during the early part of Dr. Lcichardt's expedition from 



