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There are other stages in the collection which perhaps represent 

 the male in the first year. One is pure gray beneath, and gray 

 above strongly tinged with orange, tail orange bordered with gray 

 on the edges of the feathers ; wings gray, with the secondaries and 

 coverts bordered with rufous. Another differs in having the under 

 tail coverts and rump dull orange ; tail and wings uniform gray, the 

 latter slightly tinged with rufous on the greater coverts. 

 Terpsiphone rufiventeis (Swains.), St. Paul River and Senegal, 



W. Africa. 

 Terpsiphone princeps (Temm.), India and Japan. 

 Elminia longicauda (Swains.), Senegal. 

 Philentoma velatum (Temm.), Java and Borneo. 

 Philentoma pyrrhopterum (Temm.), Borneo and Sumatra. 

 Culicicapa ceylonensis (Swains.), Java. 

 Myiagra rubecula (Lath.) (= M. plumbea of the Birds of 



Australia). N. S. Wales. 

 Myiagra concinna Gould, Pt. Essington, Australia. Types. 

 Myiagra nitida Gould, Tasmania and N. S. Wales, iypes. 

 Myiagra vanikorensis (Quoy and Gaim.). 



A female from the Fiji Islands collected by the U. S. Exploring 

 Expedition. 



Myiagra latirostris Gould, Pt. Essington, Australia. Types. 

 Myiaojra rufigula Wallace, Timor. 

 Smithornis capensis (Smith), Natal. 

 Cryptolopha burkii (Burton), India. 

 Cryptolopha arivirgata (Strickl.), Java. 

 Seisura inquieta (Lath.), N. S. Wales, S. and W. Australia. 



Gould collection. 

 Arses kaupi Gould. 



Two males from Cape York, Australia. Mr. Sharpe in his key 

 to the species and in his description gives the chin as pure white, 

 whereas it is black as is distinctly shown in Gould's plate. 

 Piezorhynchus alecto (Temni.), N. W. Coast of Australia. 

 Piezorhynchus nitidus Gould, Pt. Essington. Types of species. 

 Piezorhynchus nigrimentum Gray, Moluccas. 

 Piezorhynchus gouldi (Gray), Moreton Bay, Torres Strait and 



Pt. Essington, Australia. Gould collection. This bird I think 

 is not specifically distinct from P. trivirgatus. It is described as 

 " only to be distinguished by the absence of white on the fourth outer 

 .tail feather, the three outermost only tipped with white." One of 



