1877. DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND, ETC. 99 
tells me occurred also in Mr. Stone’s collection from the south of 
New Guinea. The exact locality is not given. 
2. Pirra mackxotTr, Mill. & Schl. 
One example, New Britain, Feb. 1876. 
I was at first inclined to separate this Pitta from P. mackloti, on 
account of its having a blue line on the crown, as in P. celebensis ; 
but Prof. Salvadori assures me that “ some specimens from Batanta, 
Waigiou, and Andai have this mark equally conspicuous.” The 
occurrence of a Pitta in New Britain is a fact of great interest. 
3. SAULOPROCTA MELALEUCA (Quoy et Gaim.). 
Muscipeta melaleuca, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l’Astrol. i. p. 180, 
t. 4. f. 3. 
Sauloprocta melanoleuca, Cab. Mus. Ornith. Hein. p. 57. 
Sauloprocta melaleuca, Scl. P. Z. 8S. 1869, p. 119. 
Sauloprocta tricolor, Salvad. et D’Alb. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. 
p: 23. 
The locality of Mr. Brown’s specimen is not marked; but the 
species was first obtained in New Ireland. It is also found in 
the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Whether MMauscipeta tri- 
color, Vieillot, ex Timor (Maugé), is identical must remain uncertain 
until specimens from that island have been compared. Wallace dees 
not include the species in his Birds of Timor (P.Z.S. 1863, p. 485). 
4, RHIPIDURA SETOSA. 
Muscipeta setosa, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l’Astrol. i. p. 181, t.4. 
f. 4 (1830). 
Rhipidura setosa, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 259, et Cat. B. Trop. 
Isl. p. 17. 
Rhipidura gularis, Miller et Schl. Verh. Ethn. p. 185 (1839= 
44). 
One skin of this species, being from Duke-of-York Island, is, no 
doubt, the true R. setosa, originally described from New Ireland ; but 
I suspect it is also scarcely different from R. gularis of New Guinea, 
and that these two species will have ultimately to be united. Cf. 
Meyer, Sitz. Ak. Wien, Ixix. p. 503. 
5. MonaARCHA VERTICALIS, sp. nov. (Piate XIV. fig. 1.) 
Super ater: uropygio, primariorum tectricibus mediis et secunda- 
riorum omnibus albis: frontis, faciet, regionis ocularis, et 
gutturis totius plumis nigris, exstantibus, quasi squamosis, 
fascia verticali alba ex similibus plumis composita: abdomine 
et subalaribus albis : rostro et pedibus nigris: rictu setis rigidis 
munito: long. tota 6:0, ale 3°3, caude 211. 
Hab. Duke-of-York Island (Oct. 1875). 
Obs. Sp. Monarche loricate, Wall. (P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 29, pl. vi.), 
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