1G6 Mr. W. R. Ooilvie-Grant on Birds 



Monachella miilleriana. 



Monacliella miilleriana Sclileg. ; Sharpe, Cut. iv. p. 240 

 (1879) ; van Oort, p. 84 (1909). 



Alonachella saxicolina Salvad. ; id. 0. P. ii. p. 83 (1881). 



a. S ■ Upper Mimika River, 21st Jan. 1910. [No. 1005, 

 G.CS.] 



b. c? • Pariniau, Mimika River, 14tli Dec. 1910. [No. 

 725, C.H.B.G.] 



c-i. c? ? et (f juv. White Water Camp, Kapare River, 

 17th Oct.-9th Nov. 1910. [Nos. 320, 328, 329, 353, 354, 

 355, 468, C. H. B. G.] 



k. ? imm. Iwaka River, 1st Feb, 1911. [No. 972, 

 CH.B.G.] 



I, m. (^ ? . Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 17th Oct. 

 1912. [C.B.K.'] 



n, 0. (J ? . (•anoe Camp, Setakwa Riyer, 4th & 5th Nov. 

 1912, [C.B.K.] 



Adult male and female. Iris brown ; bill black ; feet 

 gooty-brown. 



Young male. Iris brown ; npper mandible black, lower 

 lilac ; feet ashy. 



Specimens killed in October and November are either in 

 moult or have ctimpleted their change of plumage. 



The young bird (No. 329) in first plumage has the crown 

 of the head sooty-black, each feather with a triangular 

 sandy-buff spot at the tip ; the back mottled with pale 

 brownish-grey, the feathers tipped with pale sandy-buff ; 

 the wing-coverts and quills black tipped with pale sandy ; 

 the underparts white, the feathers of the chin and throat 

 edged with brownish, giving these parts a sbmewhat barred 

 appearance. 



In an immature bird (No. 972), killed the following 

 February, the pale buffi tips of the feathers of the crown 

 have nearly disappeared as also those on the wing-covert^ 

 and quillsj except an the greater seponiury coverts ; the 

 back and throat are nluch the sanife as in the adult, grey ancl 

 pure white. 



