BLACK-FACED FLYCATCHER. 
Monarcha melanopsis pallida, Mathews, ib., Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 60, April 7th, 1916 : Cape 
York, N. Queensland. 
Monarcha canescens claudia Mathews, ib., Vol. III., pt. 4, p. 71, July 21st, 1917 : Claudie 
River, N. Queensland. 
Distribution. North Queensland, southwards from Cape York to New South Wales. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface slate-grey including the hinder crown, 
entire hack, wings, upper tail-coverts and tail ; rump chestnut ; fore-part of head, 
throat, and rictal bristles deep black ; inner webs of flight-quills dark brown with 
pale margins ; sides of face, short feathers round the eye and a band across the 
breast pale slate-grey ; breast, abdomen, sides of body, and under tail-coverts 
pale chestnut ; axillaries and under wing-coverts similar but rather paler ; under- 
surface of flight-quills greyish-brown somewhat paler on the margins ; lower aspect 
of tail also greyish-brown with white shafts to the feathers. Eyes black ; feet 
and bill grey-blue. Total length 165 mm. ; culmen 17, wing 89, tail 75, tarsus 
20. Figured. Collected at Cape York on the 30th of March, 1913. 
Adult male. Similar to the adult female. 
Immature. “ Resemble the adults, but are destitute of the narrow ring of black feathers 
round the eye and the face and throat are grey like the head and neck.” (North.) 
Nest. Cup-shaped. Composed externally of green moss, lined with fine rootlets. Outside 
dimensions 3 to 3J inches by 4 to 5 deep. Inside 2 by 2^ deep. 
Eggs. Clutch, two or three. White, covered, sometimes more at the larger end, with 
reddish spots and some of lavender. 24 to 25 mm. by 16-17. 
Breeding-season. November to January. 
Adult female. Crown of head, sides of face, breast, sides of neck, entire back, upper tail- 
coverts, scapulars, and inner median and greater upper wing-coverts pale slate- 
grey ; base of fore-head, throat, rictal bristles and short feathers round the eye 
deep black ; upper wing-coverts black, some of the median series fringed with grey 
like the bastard- wing and primary-co verts ; flight-quills blackish with whitish margins 
to the inner webs ; tail also blackish ; abdomen, under wing-coverts and axillaries 
chestnut ; outer edge of wing below black ; under-surface of flight-quills dark 
brown somewhat paler on the inner margins ; lower aspect of tail also dark brown 
with white shafts to the feathers. Eyes dark brown, bill horn colour with blackish 
tip ; feet horn colour. Total length 170 mm. ; culmen 15, wing 82, tail 66, 
tarsus 19. Figured. Collected at Cape York, North Queensland, on the 27th of 
February, 1911, and is the type of M. c. hurandi. 
Adult male. Similar to female. 
Nest. “ Goblet-” shaped. Composed of fine strips and flakes of paper bark, bound 
together by cobwebs. Lined with vegetable hair. Outside measurements 21- 
inches by 4| deep. Inside 2 deep.” (Macgillivray.) 
Eggs. “ Clutch, three, white, dotted all over with small reddish-brown irregular-shaped 
spots with a few underlying pale purplish ones. The spots are sparsely distributed 
towards the small end, but form a distinct zone at the larger. 23-24 mm. by 
16-18 in. (ib.) 
Breeding-season. January. 
Swain so isr figured this species in the Zoological Illustrations, and a few 
years later Vigors and Horsfield introduced a new generic name for it; but, 
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