1882. ] MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON A NEW MONARCHA, 711 
to the upper wing-coverts. In the Brunswick Museum, one speci- 
men without indication of sex from Celebes and one male from 
Halmahera are found, which have a similar plumage. 
The specimen is in the Brunswick Museum. 
Brunswick, Ducal Museum of Natural History, 
October 1882. 
3. Description of a new Species of Flycatcher of the Genus 
Monarcha (Piezorhynchus) from the Solomon Group. 
By E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., &c., Curator of the 
Australian Museum, Sydney. 
[Received November 13, 1882.] 
Monarcua (PrezoORHYNCHUS) BROWNI, sp. nov. 
All the upper surface, wings and tail, throat and chest glossy blue- 
black; the feathers of the throat elongate, lanceolate; the breast, 
axillaries, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; the terminal fourth 
to third portion of the outer four tail-feathers white’. A triangular 
patch of white from near the angle of the mouth below the eye, 
widens and extends down the sides of the neck; a broad patch of 
white on the wings, extends over the median coverts and tips of 
some of the adjacent smaller coverts; the shoulders are black like 
the back ; the primary quills and the inner webs of the secondaries 
are blackish brown; the under surface of the wings, the basal por- 
tion of the feathers of the hind neck and interscapular region are 
dark. brown. 
Bill bluish black, rictus black, legs lead-blue. 
Total length 7 inches, wing 3°5 in., tail 3°2 in., tarsus 0°8 in., hind 
toe 0:4 in.; bill from the forehead 0:7 in., from nostril 0°45 in., 
from gape 0°75 in. 
Hab. ‘‘ Marrabo,”’ Solomon Islands. 
Remarks. This fine species is remarkable for the large patch of 
white on the neck, which commences just below the eye, tips a few 
of the lower ear-coverts with white, and expands out in a triangular 
form on the side of the neck, but does not reach the chest. The 
species comes near to Piezorhynchus brodiei (Ramsay), but is a 
larger bird and has a greater extent of black on the chest. It was 
obtained by some of the Rev. George Brown’s collectors at “ Mar- 
rabo,”’ one of the Solomon Group, 
1 The fifth feather on one side only has a spot of white on the inner web. 
