374 Mr. C. W. De Vis on new or little-known 



" Neueba, Nov. 1st, 1896 ; contents of stomachy birds. 

 Native name ' Kigo.' " 



From the proportions of this young Harrier we have reason 

 to refrain from uniting it to C. sjnlothorax, Salvad. &d'Alb. ; 

 it is still more difficult to identify it with C. maillardi, Verr., 

 C. ivolfi, Gum., or any other described species, but until the 

 juvenile state of C. spilothorax is more certainly ascertained 

 it is prudent to leave the identity of the present bird an 

 open question. The fourth primary is decidedly the longest, 

 and the fifth is notched on the base of the outer web. 



Fam. M u s c 1 c A p I D jD. 



4. Monarch A divaga, sp. nov. 



General colour brown-black ; feathers of head squamate, 

 with brilliant steel-blue lustre ; back, upper tail-coverts, 

 edges of median rectrices, scapulars, wing-coverts, edges of 

 inner remiges, side of head, and a broad band across the 

 upper breast with duller steel-blue reflections ; under sur- 

 face of wing and tail paler : " iris brown ; bill and feet 

 black." Length 215 mm., wing 115, tail 110, culmen 24, 

 tarsus 18. 



" Female : Boirave, July 14th, 1896 ; contents of stomach, 

 insects. Native name 'Divaga/^^ 



In this bird the rictal bristles are very strong and reach to 

 the tip of the bill, and the edges of both mandibles are 

 obtusely serrated. 



5. Rhipidura NiGRiFRONs, sp. nov. 



Above bluish ash-grey; front (broadly), a broad supra- 

 ciliary band curving over ear-coverts, face, chin, and throat 

 jet-black, with a faint metallic lustre ; a line from behind 

 the eye, separating the black throat from the grey nape, and 

 all beneath white ; median wing- and primary-coverts with 

 white tips, forming two bars across the wing; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail black ; four outer rectrices on each side with 

 white tips graduated in extent ; wing above dark brown, the 

 quills narrowly edged with bluish grey ; metacarpal edge 

 and adjacent under wing-coverts fuscous, rest of the coverts 



