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Show 1877.] DUKE-OF-YORK ISLAND, ETC. 99 tells me occurred also in Mr. Stone's collection from the south of New Guinea. The exact locality is not given. 2. PITTA MACKLOTI, Miill. & Schl. One example, N e w Britain, Feb. 1876. I was at first inclined to separate this Pitta from P. mackloti, on account of its having a blue line on the crown, as in P. celebensis; but Prof. Salvadori assures me that " some specimens from Batanta, Waigiou, and Andai have this mark equally conspicuous." The occurrence of a Pitta in New Britain is a fact of great interest. 3. SAULOPROCTA MELALEUCA (Quoy et Gaim.). Muscipeta melaleuca, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l'Astrol. i. p. 180, t. 4. f. 3. Sauloprocta melanoleuca, Cab. Mus. Ornith. Hein. p. 57. Sauloprocta melaleuca, Scl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 119. Sauloprocta tricolor, Salvad. et D'Alb. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 23. The locality of Mr. Brown's specimen is not marked; but the species was first obtained in New Ireland. It is also found in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea. Whether Muscipeta tricolor, Vieillot, ex Timor (Mauge), is identical must remain uncertain until specimens from that island have been compared. Wallace does not include the species in his Birds of Timor (P.Z.S. 1863, p. 485). 4. RHIPIDURA SETOSA. Muscipeta setosa, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l'Astrol. i. p. 181, t. 4. f. 4 (1830). Rhipidura setosa, G. R. Grav, Gen. B. i. p. 259, et Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 17. Bhipidura gularis, Miiller et Schl. Verh. Ethn. p. 185 (1839- 44). One skin of this species, being from Duke-of-York Island, is, no doubt, the true R. setosa, originally described from N e w Ireland ; but I suspect it is also scarcely different from R. gularis of N ew Guinea, and that these two species will have ultimately to be united. Cf. Meyer, Sitz. Ak. Wien, lxix. p. 503. 5. MONARCHA VERTICALIS, sp. nov. (Plate XIV. fig. 1.) Super ater: uropygio, primariorum tectricibus mediis et secunda-riorum omnibus albis: frontis, faciei, regionis ocularis, et gutturis totius plumis nigris, exstantibus, quasi squamosis, fascia verticali alba ex similibus plumis composita: abdomine et subalaribus albis : rostro ei pedibus nigris ; rictu setis rigidis munito: long, tota 6*0, alee 3*3, caudee 2*11. Hab. Duke-of-York Island (Oct. 1875). Obs. Sp. Monarches loricatee, Wall. (P. Z. S. 1863, p. 29, pl. vi.) 7* |