706 DR. W. BLASIUS ON BIRDS FROM CERAM. _[Nov. 28, 
13. MonarcHa INoRNATUS (Garn.), Salvad. ii. p. 14. 
Two specimens (1. ‘‘d,” 2.“*2”’). For both, the label repeats :— 
“Tris brown. L. 16 cm., D.4 em. Bill and feet of a beautiful 
bluish grey. Lokki, Ceram, Nov. 25, 1881.” 
This species is new to the ornithology of Ceram. I have before me 
for comparison one sample from the Brunswick Museum, received 
from Batchian, and three specimens sent at the same time by Dr. 
Platen from Amboina (cf. Blasius and Nehrkorn, tom. cit. p. 422, 
sp. 18). The specimens from Batchian and Ceram have a little 
lighter grey colouring on the head and breast than the three birds (all 
males) from Amboina ; and the individuals just named show distinctly 
a small number of black feathers on the front and chin, which are 
scarcely to be remarked on the others. The female from Ceram 
has in the dried skin a nearly yellowish white bill, at least in the front 
half; while the five other specimens (all labelled male) show di- 
stinctly the bluish-grey or grey colouring nearly up to the end. 
No. 1 is in the Brunswick Museum. 
14. Muscrcapa GrisEosTictTa (Swinh.), Salvad. ii. p. 80. 
“ Male. Iris dark brown. L. 12 cm., D.2cm. Bill and feet 
dark brown. Lokki, Ceram, Nov. 29, 1881.” 
Salvadori has only mentioned Muscicapa griseosticta (Swinh.) and 
Erythrosterna luteola (Pallas) among the true Flycatchers of the 
fauna of the Moluccas, &e. As, on account of the greater size and 
the entirely different colouring of the present specimen, the last 
species seems totally out of the question, I have labelled this bird at 
once as M. griseosticta, a determination since confirmed by Mr. E. 
F. von Homeyer and Count Tommaso Salvadori. 
It coincides in general very well with the descriptions of Swinhoe, 
Salvadori, and Sharpe (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. iv. p. 120, 1879), except 
only that the colour of the tail and quills should not be represented 
as blackish but rather as dark brown, and the brown-grey plumage 
has in many places (principally on the nape, on the middle of the 
back, the tail-feathers and upper wing-coverts, and the shoulder- 
feathers) numerous fine white spots which are bordered with a 
dark-brown edging. Such spots are described as characteristic of the 
plumage of the young of various allied species of Muscicapa, espe- 
cially of Muscicapa sibirica, Gm., to which species’ the example from 
Ceram has a striking resemblance in the markings of the chin, throat, 
breast, and belly. I consider therefore, according to analogy with 
M. sibirica, the specimen sent by Dr. Platen from Ceram to be a 
young bird of Muscicapa griseosticta (Swinh.). I have nowhere 
found in the literature at my disposal (especially neither among 
Salvadori’s publications nor in Sharpe’s Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.) the 
description of the plumage of youth of this species. On that account 
the above remarks about the delicate little white drop-like spots 
as characteristic of youth may be of interest. That an identi- 
1 LT use for comparison an old male specimen of Muscicapa sibirica, Gm., de- 
rived from the collection of my late father, and collected June 4, 1869, on the 
southern part of Lake Baikal, which is in the Brunswick Museum. 
