MONACHA, Horsf. & Vigors., 
contains the Oriole, or Hooded-flycatchers. We 
give them this familiar name from the black and 
golden yellow colour of the typical species ( M. 
chrysomela J, here figured, which immediately re- 
minds the observer of an oriole : the two groups, 
in fact, are perfectly analogous, being the most 
aberrant (or the tenuirostral) type of their own 
circle. The French naturalists discovered two 
of the most beautiful species in the islands near 
New Guinea, to which, and the neighbouring 
continent of New Holland, the group is confined. 
The bill is particularly strong ; and from being as 
much compressed as depressed, we immediately 
perceive how distinct they are from ordinary fly- 
catchers. As representing the Tenuirostres, the 
gayest of all birds in their plumage, the oriole fly- 
catchers present us with the most lovely bird in the 
whole family, the Monacha chyrsomela (Sw.). It 
is clothed in the same sort of brilliant velvet-like 
feathers — black and orange — of the regent oriole 
( Sericulus chrysocepkalus ); while another species, 
Monacha telescopthalima, (Sw.) likewise an inhabi- 
tant of New Guinea, has naked erect wattles over 
the eyes. Under the name of Musicapa carinata, 
of our Zool. III. i. pi. 147, we first brought this 
