FRILL-NECKED FLYCATCHER. 
dark brown, rim round eye brigiit blue, feet blue-grey, bill slate-blue. Total length 
145 mm. ; culmen 10, wing 75, tail 69, tarsus 17. Figured. Collected at Somerset, 
Cape York, North Queensland, on the 4th of December, 1902. 
The following is a description of the type specimen of Arses lorealis De Vis which I 
drew up in 1907. 
Adult male. General colour above dull black, the head more glossy blue-black, separated 
from the mantle, by a broad white collar in the form of a frill ; scapulars white, 
forming a shoulder patch, the bases of the feathers dusky-blackish ; lower back 
dull ashy-grey, upper tail-coverts blue-black ; tail-feathers brownish-black, with 
dusky cross-bars under certain lights ; wing-coverts and quills dusky-black, the 
feathers somewhat blue-black externally ; lores dull white ; feathers below the 
eye and ear-coverts black ; cheeks, throat, and under-surface of the body pure 
white, including the under tail-coverts ; all the feathers of the breast and abdomen 
with black bases, which are very distinct on the sides of the breast, where they 
produce a mottled appearance ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; 
the edge of the wing mottled with black ; lower primary coverts dull ashy ; quills 
below dusky-brown, dusky-ash colour on the inner webs ; bill light brown ; feet 
black : iris brown. Total length 148 mm. ; culmen 12, wing 84, tail 68, tarsus 19. 
Nest. Very similar to that of Ophryzone kaupi. 
Eggs. Clutch, two. Whitish, spotted with dull and purplish-red. 19 mm. by 14. 
Breeding-season. November to January. 
When De Vis introduced this new species he gave no details of its habits, etc., 
but diagnosed it : “ 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.” 
Barnard has recorded : “ Found only in scrubs ; nowhere plentiful. 
Several nests were found, but only one set of eggs was taken, the other nests 
being destroyed, probably by other birds, or vermin. A nest found on 9th 
November, 1910, was being attacked by a Rusty-breasted Shrike Thrush 
( Pinarolestes ruftgaster), which appeared to be trying to pull the structure to 
pieces. The Flycatchers were vainly trying to drive the destroyer away, and, 
to assist them, I threw several sticks at the Thrush, which would only fly a 
short distance, and again return to the attack. I then shot it, and 9 days later 
secured a pair of eggs of the Flycatcher from the nest. Some of the birds shot 
had great numbers of thin worms, about 3 inches long, in the intestines.” 
Macgillivray wrote : “It seems to search the stems of vines and trunks 
of trees for its insect food, hopping up round a big tree trunk and searching 
the crevices in the bark. It is a bird of the scrub, and nests in the wet months. 
It was fairly common on the Claudie, a denizen of the scrub, where its frail, 
open basket -like nest is usually seen suspended, hanging in mid-air between 
two parallel rootlets or vines. The eggs can usually be seen quite plainly from 
below through the fine network of the nest. On the 22nd December, after 
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