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DESCRIPTION OF A FLYCATCHER, PRESUMABLY 
NEW. 
By C. W. De Vis, M.A., Corresponding Member. 
Arses lorealis. 
Arses sp., with the lower surface entirely white in the male, 
ochreous in a band on the lower throat in the female, and with 
white lores in both sexes. 
Adult male. — Head, face and ear-coverts glossy black; lore 
white, with the bases of its feathers black; mantle, wings and 
rump dusky brown; feathers of the rump tipped with white; tail 
brownish-black; lesser wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts black; 
all beneath, cheeks and under wing-coverts, nuchal collar, feathers 
of lower mantle and scapulars white; thighs dusky-grey; bill 
black; tarsus and foot dusky horn-brown; orbital wattle blue. 
Length 147 mm., wing 79, tail 83, culmen 10 -5, tarsus 20. 
Female. — Head, face, ear-coverts and lores as in the male, but 
with the black less glossy; mantle, upper wing-coverts and rump 
brown, the mantle darkened here and there by the dusky centres 
of the feathers; nuchal collar white, its feathers barred or spotted 
with black near the tips, scapulars on both webs and the 
secondaries on the outer web edged with rufous; tail brownish 
black; beneath, cheeks and under wing-coverts white; feathers of 
of a band across the lower throat broadly tipped with pale buff. 
Bill paler than in the male. Length 140 mm., wing 77, tail 80, 
culmen 8 5, tarsus 19*5. 
Hab. — Cape York; coll. K. Broad bent, March; habits and 
haunts similar to those of A. kaiqri, Grid. 
