264 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



Moreton Bay to Port Essington, which differs in being desti- 

 tute of the rufous tint on the flanks, and which may be a 

 female. 



I can perceive little or no difference between Australian 

 examples and specimens brought by Mr. Wallace from the 

 islands of Batchian and Timor. 



In form and markings this species closely assimilates to the 

 members of the genus Arses. 



Forehead, throat, space round the eye, and the ears jet- 

 black ; upper surface dark grey ; tail black, the three outer 

 feathers on each side largely tipped with white ; cheeks, chest, 

 and flanks rufous ; abdomen and tail-coverts white ; bill lead- 

 colour ; feet black. 



Sp. 154. MONARCH A LEUCOTIS, Gould. 



White-eared Eltcatcher. 

 Monarcka leucotis, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc.^part xviii. p. 201. 



Monarcha leucotis, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, Supplement, 

 pi. 



I have refrained from making the White-eared Flycatcher 

 the type of a new genus until more information has reached 

 us respecting it, and in the mean time have assigned it a 

 situation with the other members of that form to which it 

 seems to me to be most nearly allied. Like most of the other 

 new birds figured in the Supplement to the Birds of Australia, 

 it is a native of Cape York, and in all probability it ranges 

 widely over the north coast. " Respecting this bird," says 

 Mr. Macgillivray, " I regret to say I can afford you very little 

 information. A specimen was obtained at Dunk Island, off 

 the north-east coast of Australia, in lat. 17° 56' S., where it 

 was shot during its flight from one tree to another : a second 

 individual was afterwards procured at Cape York, which ren- 

 ders it probable that its range extends between tliese two 

 places." 



