30 Mr. C. W. De Vis on Birds 



23. MONARCHA MELANOPTERUSj Gv. 



Sudest Island ; Rossel Island. 



24. MoNARCHA GUTTULATUs, Gam. 

 Sudest Island. 



25. MoNARCHA CHALYBEOCEPHALUS, Gam. 



St. Aignan. 



26. Rhipidura setosa, Quoy & Gaini. 



St. Aignan. A bird which I can only regard as a form of 

 this species ; the differences — namely, a distinct supraciliary 

 stripe, an almost perfectly uniform grey chest, and axillaries 

 and subcaudals (except the tips of the latter, which are white) 

 ochraceous, like the abdomen — do not appear to be of specific 

 importance, though as great as those which serve to separate 

 R. assimilis, Gr. 



27. Rhipidura auricularis, n. sp. {Op. cit. p. 108.) 

 Upper surface smoky grey. Head brownish black ; lores, 



face, and anterior ear-coverts black ; posterior ear-coverts 

 white, elongate ; a broad stripe over the lores and eyes white. 

 Throat white, the feathers with black bases gradually losing 

 their white tips as they approach the chin, which is nearly 

 black ; a broad pectoral baud black, well defined from the 

 throat. Middle of lower breast and abdomen bufi", the former 

 varied with black ; sides of the breast and abdomen and 

 the flanks dark grey ; subcaudals white, with black bases. 

 Wing-coverts black : the least with a few minute white tips ; 

 the median with larger white tips, forming a transverse row ; 

 the greatest with still larger, forming a broad bar across the 

 wing. Quills externally uniform dark brown. Tail brownish 

 black above and below ; the three outer feathers with narrow 

 white tips. Innermost axillaries white, black on the basal 

 half. Under wing-coverts white, varied with black, under 

 surface of wing ashy brown ; the primaries edged with grey, 

 secondaries and tertiaries with bufiy grey. Bill dark brown. 

 Mandible white, with the tip brown. Legs black. Total 

 length 145 mm., wing 82, tail 90, tarsus 16, culmen 6. 

 Hab. Musgrave Range, from 7000 to 9000 feet altitude. 



