PCECILODRYAS ALBIFACIES, Sharpe. 
Southern White-faced Flycatcher. 
Pcecilodryas albi/acies, Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) vol. xvi. p. 318 ( 1882 ), 
Although closely allied to Pcecilodryas leucops of North-western New Guinea, Mr. Goldie sent so many 
specimens from the Astrolabe Mountains, all of which presented the same characters, that there can be little 
doubt of the two species being distinct. The present bird is very similar to P. leucops , hut has the whole of the 
region round the eye white. In P, leucops the feathers in front of, below, and round the eye are black, 
leaving only a large loral spot of white, the facial appearance of P. albi/acies being therefore quite different 
when the two birds are compared. 
The native name is said by Mr. Goldie to be “ Iddimattamatta he also states that the legs are yellow; 
and this is all we know concerning the species beyond the fact that it was procured by the above-named 
collector in the Choqueri district at the back of the Astrolabe Mountains. 
The following description I copy from Mr. Sharpe’s essay on Mr. Goldie’s collection, published in the 
Linnean Society’s Journal. 
“ Adult. General colour above olive-green, with a concealed spot of silky white on the sides of the rump; 
lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; primary-coverts and greater series dusky brown, edged with 
olive-green, the latter slightly tinged with rufous brown near the tips ; quills dusky brown, externally 
olive, a little more yellow in colour than the back ; tail-feathers light brown, edged with olive, and having 
a small tip of ashy white at the end of the inner web ; forehead blackish, extending over the eye ; top of 
head dark slaty grey with blackish shaft-streaks to the feathers, which are also very faintly tinged with 
olive ; lores, feathers in front of the eye impinging on the forehead, feathers above and around the eye, 
as well as the space below the eye, pure white ; ear-coverts slaty black ; cheeks and chin white faintly 
washed with yellow ; throat and under surface of body bright yellow, the sides of the breast and flanks 
olive-greenish, a tinge of which is also in the centre of the breast; axillaries bright yellow; under wing- 
coverts white washed with yellow, with a dusky patch near the edge of the wing, which is also yellow ; quills 
ashy-brown below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 45 inches, eulinen 0 - 55, wing 
2 - 85, tail T9, tarsus 0‘8. ” 
The figures in the Plate represent a pair of birds of the size of life, drawn from the typical specimens in 
the British Museum. [R. B. S.] 
