( 493 ) 



The late Dr. Sharpe stated that specimens from New Giiitiea and Torres Straits 

 were paler underneath than tj'pical jatanica. Comparing our specimens, we cannot 

 find this confirmed, and are nnable to find other diflferences. If they should 

 be separable, the nftmefro/ttaliii would of course be available for the Papuan race. 



Mr. Mathews treats neoxena as a subspecies of jacanica, and perhaps with 

 good reason. 



' 9'5. Monarcha axillaris Salvad. 



Cf. Noi\ Zool. 1903. p. 458 ; 1907. p. Hii. 



? imm. ; Snow Mountains, 30U0 ft., 22. x. 1910. (No. 4875, A. S. Meek Coll) 

 " Iris dark brown ; bill dark slaty-blue with black tip; feet dark slaty-blae." 

 Unfortunately we have no specimens from Arfiik, which is the terra typica of 

 M. axillaris. 



./ 97. Monarcha guttula (Garn ). 



Cf. Nov. Zonl. 1903. p. 450 ; van Oort, Nova Guinen, ix. i. p. 87. 



3 <S ad., 1 c? ,iuv. ; Upper Setekwa River, July and August 1910. (Nos. 4407, 

 4429, 4496, 4497, "a. S. Meek Coll.) 



,,'98. Monarcha menadensis (Quoy & Gaim.). 



(Monarcha didn-oni auctorum — preferred on account of the wrong name, the species not being 



found in Celebes.) 

 Cf. Nov. Zool. 1903. p. 458. 



2 c?, 1 ?; Setekwa River, 18, 22. vi. 1910. (Nos. 4187, 4190, 4217, A. S. 

 Meek Coll.) 



2 c?, 1 ?; Upper Setekwa River, July 1910. (Nos. 4230, 424(3, 4270, 

 A. S. Meek Coll.) 



According to Mr. Meek's se.xing in this and former collections, the entirely 

 black-backed birds are males, those with a slate-coloured upperside females ; but 

 from the ditfereuces in size of some of the black-backed specimens we must conclude 

 that the adult male and female have an entirely black upperside, and ditt'er merely 

 in size, while the slate-backed birds are young or immature. This was already 

 Salvadori'sview in Orn. Fap. ii. p. 31. 



' 99. Monarcha rubiensis (Meyer). 



Tih'drm ruliiensin A. B. Meyer, SUzuiiijxb. k. Ahul. Wieii l.tix. p. 494 (1874 — Rubi). 

 lliil)iinJH)jrmri rufum Beichenow, Oni. .\[oivitsher. 1897. p. 161 (Gogol River, Kaiserwillielmsland). 

 .Moiiari-lia riibknxix Rothschild & Hartert, Not\ Zool. 1903. p. 4(50 (near Humboldt Bay and 

 Bismarck Mountains). 



4 c?, 3 S ; Upper S(;tekwa River, July 1910. (Nos. 4242, 4255, 4320, 4336, 

 4335, 4343, 4317, A. S. Meek Coll.) 



" Iris dark brown ; bill slaty-bine and black ; feet slaty-blue." 

 The males have the throat black, in one specimen extending down to the 

 jnguluni, in the others not extending over the lowest part of tlie throat. The 

 fcmiiles have the throat rusty rufous like the breast. Wings of \\u' males '.14-97, 

 of the females 90-93 mm. 



One of the males has over a dozen white (albinistic) feathers on the crown. 



