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Show 1882.] MR. E. P. RAMSAY ON A NEW MONARCHA. 711 to the upper wing-coverts. In the Brunswick Museum, one specimen without indication of sex from Celebes and one male from Halmahera are found, which have a similar plumage. The specimen is in the Brunswick Museum. Brunswick, Ducal Museum of Natural History, October 1882. 3. Description of a new Species of Flycatcher of the Genus Monarcha (Piezorhynchus) from the Solomon Group. By E. P. RAMSAY, F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., &c, Curator of the Australian Museum, Sydney. [Received November 13, 1882.] MONARCHA (PIEZORHYNCHUS) BROWNI, sp. nov. All the upper surface, wings and tail, throat and chest glossy blue-black ; the feathers of the throat elongate, lanceolate; the breast, axillaries, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white ; the terminal fourth to third portion of the outer four tail-feathers white1. A triangular patch of white from near the angle of the mouth below the eye, widens and extends down the sides of the neck ; a broad patch of white on the wings, extends over the median coverts and tips of some of the adjacent smaller coverts; the shoulders are black like the back ; the primary quills and the inner webs of the secondaries are blackish brown ; the under surface of the wings, the basal portion of the feathers of the hind neck and interscapular region are dark brown. Bill bluish black, rictus black, legs lead-blue. Total length 7 inches, wing 3*5 in., tail 3*2 in., tarsus 0*8 in., hind toe 0*4 in. ; bill from the forehead 0*7 in., from nostril 0*45 in., from gape 0*75 in. Hab. " Marrabo," Solomon Islands. Remarks. This fine species is remarkable for the large patch of white on the neck, which commences just below the eye, tips a few of the lower ear-coverts with white, and expands out in a triangular form on the side of the neck, but does not reach the chest. The species comes near to Piezorhynchus brodiei (Ramsay), but is a larger bird and has a greater extent of black on the chest. It was obtained by some of the Rev. George Brown's collectors at " Marrabo," one of the Solomon Group. i The fifth feather on one side only has a spot of white on the inner web. |
