. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 390 MTJSCICAPID-E, 57. MACH-ffiRORHTNCHUS. Type. Macliajrirhyncbus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 277 M. ilaviventer. Macheirhynchus, ScM. N. T. D. iv. p. 43. Macheirhamplius, Schl. torn. cit. p. 58 {lapsu, nee Westenn.). Cf. Salvad. Torino, x. p. 369 (1875).. Bill of Machyprorhi/nchusjiaviventer. Range. Northern Australia, New Guinea and adjacent islands. Key to the Species. a. With no patch of black on the hreast, which is entirely yellow ; chin white. a'. Ear-coverts black; forehead and eyebrow yel- Iq-sv Jlaviventer, p. .890. b'. Ear-
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 390 MTJSCICAPID-E, 57. MACH-ffiRORHTNCHUS. Type. Macliajrirhyncbus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 277 M. ilaviventer. Macheirhynchus, ScM. N. T. D. iv. p. 43. Macheirhamplius, Schl. torn. cit. p. 58 {lapsu, nee Westenn.). Cf. Salvad. Torino, x. p. 369 (1875).. Bill of Machyprorhi/nchusjiaviventer. Range. Northern Australia, New Guinea and adjacent islands. Key to the Species. a. With no patch of black on the hreast, which is entirely yellow ; chin white. a'. Ear-coverts black; forehead and eyebrow yel- Iq-sv Jlaviventer, p. .890. b'. Ear-coverts yellow. a". Forehead and eyebrow yellow xanthogenys, p. 391. 6". Forehead and eyebrow white albifrons, p. 392. 6. With a large black patch on the breast; chin yellow, like the throat nigripectus, p. 392. 1. Machaerorhynchus flaviventer. Machffirirhynchus flaviventer, Gould, R Z. S. 1850, p. 277, pi. 33 id. B. Austr. Suppl. p. 21, pi. 11 ; id. Ilandb. B. Austr. i. p. 257 Ramsay, P. Z. 8. 1868, p. 384; Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 24 Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. A\S. W. ii. p. 182. Machffirirhynchus iiaviventris, Gray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 192; Finsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 168. Myiagra flaviventer. Gray, Hand-l. 5. i. p. 329, no. 4937. Macheirhynchus flaviventer, Schl. N. T. D. iv. p. 43. Machferoi-hvnchus flaviventer, Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, x. p. 373. Adult. General colour above olive-green, yellow on the rump; upper tail-coverts and tail black, the centre feathers obsoletely, the rest more broadly tipped with white, increasing in extent on the outer ones, which are also white along the outer web; wings black, the median and greater series of coverts broadly tipped with white, the primary-quiUs narrowly edged with white, the secondaries with yellow, the inner ones more broadly again with white ; forehead and a broad eyebrow, including the upper edge of the eyelid, bright yellow ; feathers in front of and below the eye, including the lower edge of the eyelid, black ; c
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