ARSES KAUPI, 
Kaup’s Flycatcher. 
Gould. 
Arses Kaupi, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., December 10 , 1850 . 
I have some little doubt as to the propriety of placing this bird in the genus Arses, but rather than multiply 
the number of genera, perhaps unnecessarily, I have assigned it a place therein, as it accords more nearly 
with that form than with Monarchci, the only other genus to which it offers alliance. I am happy to have 
this opportunity of paying a just compliment to my friend Dr. Kaup of Darmstadt, an ornithologist of vast 
acumen and research, and whose philosophical labours are well known to all naturalists : the compliment is 
the more appropriate, as he is at this time (1851) engaged in preparing a Monograph of the Muscicapidce , 
to which family the present bird belongs. 
The specimen here represented is the only one I have seen : it was killed on the north coast of Australia ; 
and this is all, I regret to say, that is at present known respecting it. 
Small spot on the chin, crown of the head, lores, line beneath the eye, ear-coverts, broad crescentic 
hand across the back, and a broad band across the breast, deep shining bluish black ; wings and tail brown- 
ish black ; throat and a broad hand across the hack of the neck white ; lower part of the back and abdomen 
white, the base of the feathers black, which occasionally showing through give those parts a mottled appear- 
ance ; bill bluish horn-colour, becoming lighter at the tip ; feet black. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
