collected in Dutch New Guinea. 113 



«.[(?]. Mt. Carstensz, Camp 13, 10,500 ft., Isfc Feb. 

 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



Iris dark ; bill and feet black. 



This species is a Chat, and not a Flycatcber as originally 

 described. It agrees tolerably closely with the description 

 of the female type of Pcecilodryas quadrhnacidatus obtained 

 on the Hellwig Mountains at about 8700 ft. 



Dr. van Oort describes his type-specimen as " Plumage 

 shining black, with a white spot at both sides of the breast 

 and with the four inner secondaries white, the fourth tipped 

 with black. Iris red-brown ; bill and feet black. Bill 13, 

 wing 95, tail 61, tarso-met. 30 mm." 



In the present specimen the inner secondaries are all tipped 

 with black, and the fourth one has the white confined to 

 the basal three-quarters of the inner web, and there is also 

 a streak of white at the base of the inner web of the fifth 

 quill. The wing measures 105; tail 75; tarsus 29'5 mm. 



This greater size may indicate that the present specimen 

 is a male, but the sex has not been ascertained. 



The species is new to the British Museum. 



Other allied species of Black Chats which have been in- 

 cluded among the Flycatchers (^Pcecilodryas), but should be 

 referred to Saxicola, are : — 



Pcecilodryas sigillata De Vis^ Ann. Rep. Brit. N. Gruinea, 

 p. 59 (1890). Mt. Victoria, S.E. New Guinea. 



Pcecilodryas cethiops Sclater, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 66, pi. vii. 

 fig. 1. New Britain. 



Myiolestes ? himacidata Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Geuov. vi. 

 p. 84 (1874). Arfak Mountains. 



Family TIMELIID^. 

 Crateroscelis murinus. 



Crateroscelis murinus (Sclater) ; Sharpe, Cat. vii, p. 59 

 (1883); Roths. & Hartert, N. Z.' x. p. 226 (1903), xiv. 

 p. 465 (1907), XX. p. 501 (1913) [Lobo] ; van Oort, p. 90 

 (1909). 



Brachypteryx Irunneiventris Meyer, Sitzungsb. Ak. Wien, 

 Ixix. p.497 (1874) [Rubi]. 



SEE. X. JUB.-SUPPL. 2. I 



