86 E. D. VAN OORT. BIRDS. 



Myiagra rubecula (Latham). 



Todus rubecula Latham, Ind. Orn. Suppl. 1801, p. XXXII. 

 Myiagra rubecula, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. IV, 1879, p. 373. 

 Myiagra plumbea, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 74. 



Coll. LORENTZ : 



N°. 526, (not sexed), Merauke, 26 November 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



This spécimen in female's plumage agrées with examples of M. rubecula from Australia. 

 Wing 72 mm. In the Leyden Muséum is a maie belonging to this species from the Lobo 

 Bay, collected by S. MÙLLER in 1828, labelled by TEMMINCK Muscicapa tasmanii, 9, Miïll. Verh. 



Myiagra sp. ind. an M. nitida Gould ? 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 236, Ç, Noord River, 14 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Similar to the female of M. latirostris Gould, but larger and darker on head and back. 

 Upper surface ashy grey, especially on head and rump washed with slate-blue; wings brown, 

 wingcoverts and secondaries edged with ashy brown ; tailfeathers brown, middle pair slaty 

 black, outer pair with brownish white outer webs; chin, throat, cheeks, foreneck and upper 

 breast pale rufous ; earcoverts and feathers under the eye blackish grey; lower breast, vent 

 and under tailcoverts white; under wingcoverts buff; axillaries with slaty inner and buff outer 

 webs. Bill less broad than that of Myiagra latirostris Gould, more like that of M. nitida 

 Gould, length 14 mm., width at nostrils 6 mm.; wing 82, tail 80, tarso-met. 15 mm. 



Arses telescoplithalmus (Garnot). 



Muscicapa telescoplithalmus Garnot, Voy. Coqu. Zool. I, 2, 1828, p. 593, pi. 18, f. 1. 

 Arses telescoplithalmus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. IV, 1879, p. 409. 

 Arses telescophthalma, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 18S1, p. 43. 



Coll. KOCH: 



çf*Etna Bay, 30. November 1904. 



The wing of this spécimen measures 84 mm. The species has also been collected at the 

 Lobo Bay by S. MÙLLER, a maie and a female from that locality being in the Leyden Muséum. 



Arses telescophtlialmus harterti nov. subsp. 

 Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°- 37, cf; Noord River, 12 May 1907. Iris dark brown, wattles round the eye mauve, bill 



and feet violet. 

 N°. 120, (rf), Noord River, 23 May 1907. Iris dark brown, wattles round the eye mauve, bill 



mauve, feet black. 

 N°. 229, 9 ? > Van Weel's kamp, 10 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill bluish grey, feet greyish blue. 

 N°. 287, Ç, Sabang, 16 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet greyish blue. 

 N °- 3 l 9> cf) Sabang, 7 July 1907. Iris dark brown, wattles round the eye blue, bill blue, feet 



bluish black. 

 N°- 355> Ç> Geitenkamp, 21 July 1907. Iris dark brown, wattles, bill and feet blue. 



