from British Neiv Guinea. 31 



The closest allies of this Flycatcher are R. javdnica and 

 R. nigritorquis in Java and the Philippines respectively. 



28. PCECILODRYAS (?) SIGILLATA, n. Sp. [Of. Clt. p. 109.) 



Adult. Wholly black, except a black-centred white patch, 

 including the bases of the penultimate inner tertiaries and 

 all but the tips of the innermost. Bill, legs, and feet black. 

 Total length 150 mm., wing 102, tail 72, culmen 9, tarsus 28, 

 middle toe 20, hallux without claw 8, 



Young. Above rufous-brown, with narrow pale shaft-streaks, 

 the feathers growing black in patches ; inner tertiaries with 

 a broad whitish shaft-stripe ; rump brighter rufous. Tail 

 fuscous brown, the laterals slightly edged with rufous, below 

 fuscous brown. The feathers of the sides and lower abdomen 

 becoming black ; throat and breast with conspicuous pale 

 streaks, widening at the apex. Under surface of M'ing and 

 tail ashy brown. Wing-coverts chestnut-brown, with buffy- 

 white tips, the median series forming a transverse, the greatest 

 an oblique bar across the wing; under wing-coverts fuscous. 

 Bill, legs, and feet dark brown. 



Hab. Mount Victoria, at 13,000 feet. It is probably 

 doing too much violence to the genus Poecilodryas to place 

 in it the present bird, which has longer and stouter legs and 

 feet than even most of the Tarsigers, and a wing reaching to 

 within the length of the hallux (without claw) from the tip of 

 the tail. The tarsus is nearly thrice the length of the culmen, 

 and the feet outstretched pass beyond the tip of the tail. 



29. PcECiLODRYAS cYANA, Salvad. 

 Mount Kowald, 2500 feet. 



30. MicRCECA L^TA, Salvad. 

 Musgrave Range, from 7000 to 9000 feet. 



31. ToDOPsis KOWALDi, u. sp. {Op. cit. p. 109.) 



Male, young ? Head black, surrounded by feathers largely 

 tipped with ultramarine-blue, forming a coronal cincture. 

 Lower ear-coverts dark brown ; upper white, tinged with blue 

 at the tips, and elongate. Upper surface olive-brown. Wings 

 brown, wing-coverts rather darker brown, a few of the median 



