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Both specimens are precisely alike. 



This species comes nearest to Zosterops xanthochroa, Gray, from New Caledonia; but 

 the olive-green of the upper parts inclines decidedly to yellow, and the yellow on the 

 throat and breast is purer and brighter. 



15 Monttrcha lesson i, Quoy et Gaim. 



Monarcha lessoni, F. & H., Orn. Central-Poly n., p. 88, taf. vii. fig. 5; Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1875, p. 434; Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 734. 



[No. 87. Kandavu. Male. Bill light blue, darker at the base ; legs bluish ; eyes 

 black. Stomach was crammed with broken parts of insects. 

 No. 103. Kandavu. Male. Shot August 6. 

 No. 116. „ .] 



16. Myiagra rujivcutris, Elliot. 



Myiagra castaneiventris, F. & II., Orn. Central-Polyn., p. 95, taf. ix. figs. 2, 3; Layard, Proc. 



Zool. Soc, 1875, p. 435; Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 734. 

 Myiagra rufiventris, Elliot, Ibis, 1859, p. 393; Sharpe, Cat. B., vol. iv. p. 37G, pi. xi. fig. 1. 



[No. 51. Matuka. Male. Eyes black. Frecpients chiefly the mangrove trees. 



No. 75. Levuka. Male. Eyes black. Shot July 30. 



No. 76. „ Male. 



No. 101. Kandavu. Male. Shot August 6. 



No. 102. „ Female. 



No. 114. „ Female. 



No. 115. „ Male.] 



I am rather surprised to find the specimen No. 101 marked "male"; for it agrees 

 with No. 114, marked "female," whereas the female, No. 102, shows the very different 

 plumage from the black-throated males. If these statements are based on dissection, 

 they would tend to prove a uniformity of both sexes — a fact very strange, and opposite 

 to all we know at present of the members of this genus. 



This species is confined to the Fijis, and does not occur on the Navigators', as stated 

 wrongly in our Polynesian Ornithology. The specimens described by us from Samoa 

 were wrongly labelled. The representative species in the latter islands is Myiagra 

 albiventris, Peale. 



17. Pachycephala vitiensis, Gray. 



Pachycephalia vitiensis, Layard, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1875, p. 433; Ibis, 1876, p. 154; Finsch, 

 Proc Zool. Soc, 1877, p. 735. 



[No. 69. Kandavu. Female. Eyes red. July 24. 



No. 82. ,, ,, Eyes hazel; legs a bluish tinge; bill brown. Shot 



August 5.] 



(zool. chall. exp.- part vui. — 1880:) H 7 



