Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 434. 
Family MUSGICAPIDM. 
KEMPIA FLAVIGASTER. 
LEMON -BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 
(Plate 376.) 
Microeca elayigaster Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 132, Feb. 1843 : Port 
Essington, Northern Territory. 
Microeca flavigaster Gonld, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1842, p. 132, 1843; id., Birds Austr., 
pt. 21 (Vol. II., pi. 94), Dec. 1st, 1845 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 261, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 182, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 126, 1879; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 6, 
1888 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 107, 1901 ; Hartert, 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 219, 1905 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 165, 1914 
(Q.) ; Barnard, ib., Vol. XIV., p. 44, 1914 (N.T.) ; H. L. White, ib., Vol. XVI., 
p. 221, 1917 (N.T.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 195, 1918 (Q.) ; Campbell, ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 181, 1919 (Q.) ; Harvey, ib., Vol. XIX., p. 34, pi. xiv., 1919 (Q.) ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 13, 1906. 
Myiagra flavigaster Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. I., p. 261, 1846. 
Muscicapa flavigaster, id., Handl. Gen. Sp. Birds, Vol. I., p. 324, 1869. 
Microeca flaviventris Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov., Vol. XII., p. 324, 1878 : nom. 
emend. ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 153, 1903 ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 61, 1908 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., p. 25, 1911 (Q.). 
Microeca flavigaster flavigaster Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 303, 1912. 
Microeca flavigaster terrmregince Mathews, ib., Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cairns, North Queensland. 
Microeca flavigaster melvillensis Mathews, Austral A v. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 39, April 2nd, 
1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Kempia flavigaster flavigaster Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 166, 1913. 
Kempia flavigaster melvillensis Mathews, ib., p. 166. 
Kempia flavigaster terrceregince Mathews, ib., p. 167. 
Microeca flavigaster laetissima Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, Vol. XXXVII., p. 4, 
Oct. 4th, 1916 : Cardwell, Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland ; Northern Territory. 
Adult male. Crown of head, back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and upper wing-coverts 
yellowish-olive ; flight-quills hair-brow r n with pale inner edges, and slightly edged 
with olive on the outer webs ; tail also hair-brown slightly fringed with olive on 
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