ARSES KAUFE Gould.
Kaup’s Flycatcher.
Arses Kmpi, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., December 10, 1850.
I have some little doubt as to the propriety of placing this bird in the genus Arses, 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 Momrcha, 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 Mmcicapidar,
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 Austral.a;
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 brownish
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 appearance
; bill bluish horn-colour, becoming lighter at the tip ; feet black.
The figures, are of the natural size.