Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 484. 
Family MUSCIOAPIDAS. 
OPHRYZONE KATJPI. 
BLACK-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 
(Plate 408.) 
Arses kaupi Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 10, pt. i., March 15th, 1851 : North coast 
of Australia = Cairns, Queensland. 
Arses kaupi Gould, Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 10, pt. i., 1851 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., 
Vol. I., p. 251, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1875, p. 585, 1876; 
Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 51, 1876; Ramsay, ib., Yol. II., p. 
182, 1878 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 411, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 6, 1888 ; id., Ibis, 1896, p. 156 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 19, 
1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 126, 1901 ; North, 
Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 138, 1903 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 67, 1908; id., Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 323, 1912 ; H. L. White, Emu, Vol. 
XV., p. 62, 1915 ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 24, 1917. 
Ophryzone kaupi Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1868, p. 383 ; Mathews, List Birds 
Austr., p. 190, 1913. 
Monarcha kaupi Gray, Handl. Gen. Sp. B.M., Vol. I., p. 321, 1869. 
Arses terrceregince Campbell, Proc. Roy. Soc. Viet., n.s., Vol. VII., p. 25, Jan. 1895 : 
Bloomfield district, Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland (Cairns district). 
Adult male. Crown of head, nape, and sides of face velvety-black ; chin, throat, sides 
of neck, and hind-neck white with black hair-like tips to the feathers on the chin 
and throat and dark narrow fringes to those on the hind-neck ; upper-back, a 
wide band across the breast, wings, upper tail-coverts and tail black, becoming 
smoke-brown on the apical portion of the flight-quills ; scapulars and feathers on 
the rump white with black bases ; rictal bristles black ; abdomen, lower flanks, 
under tail-coverts and axillaries, sides of the body and thighs black ; under wing- 
coverts and under-surface of quills dark brown, paler on the latter ; lower aspect 
of tail blackish. Eyes dark brown, rim round eye light blue ; bill light slate- 
blue, feet and legs blue-grey. Total length 149 mm. ; culmen 10, wing 82, tail 
76, tarsus 22. Figured. Collected at Cairns, North Queensland, in October 
1902. 
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