MACH^RIRHYNCHUS NIGRIPECTUS (Schlegel). 



(Black-breasted Flycatcher.) 

 By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. 



[Continued from vol. ii. p. 59.] 



CPlate XCVII.) 



When I published the Plate of this interesting species in the second volume, 

 I was unable to determine the sex — a thing always with me much regretted. 

 The male has now fallen into my hands ; and I am able to state that the 

 one already figured, first by me and then by Mr. Gould (in his ' Birds of 

 New Guinea,' part iv.), is a female, as is also the second example in Mr. 

 Gould's plate, which he obtained from Dr. Meyer. 



By comparison of the fresh illustration which accompanies this, the 

 difference of the sexes may be remarked. 



With reference to the translations which I have caused to be made, and 

 which follow below, I may observe that I doubt if Prof. Salvadori is right in 

 saying that the adult female has a large black area on the breast like the 

 male. The females have a black shield on the chest, it is true ; but this is 

 neither as black nor as large as in the male, nor has it any gloss. Besides 

 the other differences, the yellow of the underparts in the males is much 

 deeper and brighter than in the females; it is even deeper than in 



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