Order PASSERIFORMES. 
No. 488. 
Family MUSCICAPID M. 
CARTERORNIS LEUCOTIS. 
WHITE-EARED FLYCATCHER. 
(Plate 410.) 
Monarcha LEUCOTIS Gould, in Jardine’s Contr. Ornith., 1850, p. 105* : Cape York, 
Queensland. 
MonarcJm leucotis Gould, in Jardine’s Contr. Ornith., 1850, p. 105* ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. 
(Lond.), 1850, p. 201, 1851 ; id., Birds Austr. Suppl., pi. 12, pt. i., March 15th, 
1851; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 264, 1865; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 182, 1878 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 324, 1912 ; 
Campbell and Barnard, Emu, Vol. XVII., p. 25, 1917 ; Macgillivray, ib., p. 200, 1918. 
Piezorhynchus leucotis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 423, 1879 ; Ramsay, 
Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 6, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 20, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 132, 1901 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 67, 1908 ; Macgillivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., p. 169, 1914; H. L. White, ib., Vol. 
XV., p. 62, 1915. 
Carterornis leucotis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 191, 1913; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. 
II., p. 135, 1915. 
Carterornis leucotis gracemeri Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 7, p. 130, Jan. 28th, 
1915 : Gracemere, Queensland. 
Distribution. Queensland; New South Wales (?). 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface black, including the head, back, wings, 
and tail ; sides of the face also black with a mark in front and above the eye white, 
like the ear-coverts ; an incomplete white collar on the hind-neck ; the outer 
median and greater upper wing-coverts tipped with white, the inner ones of both 
series entirely white ; outer webs of inner secondaries edged with white and 
inclining to white on the inner margins of the flight-quills, the apical portion of 
the primaries dark smoke-brown ; upper tail-coverts white like the tips of the 
outer tail-feathers ; rictal bristles uniform black ; chin and throat white with 
black bases to the feathers ; breast, upper-abdomen, and sides of the body ash- 
grey ; thighs black ; lower-abdomen and under tail-coverts white like the axillaries 
and under wing-coverts ; under-surface of flight-quills dark brown with pale margins ; 
lower aspect of tail blackish with pale shafts and white tips to the lateral feathers. 
Eyes dark brown, bill blue, tip black, feet and legs black. Total length 143 mm. ; 
culmen 11, wing 72, tail 62, tarsus 19. Figured. Collected at Cairns, North 
Queensland, in August 1902. 
Adult female. Crown of the head, hind-neck, and sides of the face black ; lores, a small 
patch above the eye, and ear-coverts white like the sides of the neck ; back, wings, 
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