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ARSES KAUPI, Gould. 
Kaup’s Flycatcher. 
Arses Kaupi, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., December 10, 1850. 
I wave some little doubt as to the propriety of placing this bird in the genus 4ses, but rather than multiply 
the number of genera, perhaps unnecessarily, I have assigned it a place therein, as it accords more nearly 
with that form than with Monarcha, the only other genus to which it offers alliance. I am happy to have 
this opportunity of paying a just compliment to my friend Dr. Kaup of Darmstadt, an ornithologist of vast 
acumen and research, and whose philosophical labours are well known to all naturalists: the compliment is 
the more appropriate, as he is at this time (1851) engaged in preparing a Monograph of the Muscicapide, 
to which family the present bird belongs. 
The specimen here represented is the only one I have seen: it was killed on the north coast of Australia ; 
and this is all, I regret to say, that is at present known respecting it. 
Small spot on the chin, crown of the head, lores, line beneath the eye, ear-coverts, broad crescentic 
band across the back, and a broad band across the breast, deep shining bluish black ; wings and tail brown- 
ish black ; throat and a broad band across the back of the neck white; lower part of the back and abdomen 
white, the base of the feathers black, which occasionally showing through give those parts a mottled appear- 
ance; bill bluish horn-colour, becoming lighter at the tip; feet black. 
The figures are of the natural size. 
