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MONACHA, HORSF. & VIGORS., 



contains the Oriole, or Hooded-flycatchers. We 

 give them this familiar name from the hlack and 

 golden -yellow colour of the typical species ( M. 

 chrysomela ) , here figured, which immediately re- 

 minds the observer of an oriole : the two groups, 

 in fact, are perfectly analogous, being the most 

 aberrant (or the tenuirostral) type of their own 

 circle. The French naturalists discovered two 

 of the most beautiful species in the islands near 

 New Guinea, to which, and the neighbouring 

 continent of New Holland, the group is confined. 

 The bill is particularly strong ; and from being as 

 much compressed as depressed, we immediately 

 perceive how distinct they are from ordinary fly- 

 catchers. As representing tne Tenmrosires, tne 

 gayest of all birds in their plumage, the oriole fly- 

 catchers present us with the most lovely bird in the 

 whole family, the Monacha chyrsomela (Sw.). It 

 is clothed in the same sort of brilliant velvet-like 

 feathers black and orange of the regent oriole 

 (Sericulus chrysocephalus ) ; while another species, 

 Monacha telescopthalima, (Sw.) likewise an inhabi" 

 tant of New Guinea, has naked erect wattles over 

 the eyes. Under the name of Musicapa carinata, 

 of our Zool. III. i. pi. 147, we first brought this 



