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Middle Carolines, 16 February. The measurements of these two 

 birds are as follows: 



63. Myiagra townsendi, sp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Myiagra vanikorenm^ (Quoy and Gaimard) 

 but adult male with back heavily glossed with green, glossy green of 

 anterior under parts covering entire upper breast, posterior under 

 parts darker, thighs blackish, under wing coverts darker, bill larger, 

 tail and tarsus longer: Female with outer web of outer tail feathers 

 extensively paler, crown grayer, back strongly washed with brown, 

 and loral region distinctly lighter than feathers of crown. 



Typc.— V. S. N. M. 212,464. Adult male. Polynesia: Fiji 

 Islands; Kambara, 7 December, 1899, C. H. Townsend. 



Description. — Crown, nape, upper back, sides of head, throat, and 

 upper breast iridescent greenish slate-black; lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail coverts between slate-gray and slate color, the feathers 

 glossed with deep slate-green; wing and tail feathers sooty black; 

 lesser and middle coverts iridescent greenish slate-black; greater 

 coverts black with outer webs of feathers glossed with iridescent 

 greenish slate-black; inner tertials more or less iridescent; lower 

 breast amber-brown, becoming ochraceous tawny on sides and flanks, 

 and merging into warm buff on the middle of the abdomen, lower tail 

 coverts and sides of rump; thighs black, the feathers tipped with 

 brown; under wing coverts light buff tipped with warm buff; bill and 

 tarsus (in dried skin) black. 



Measurements. — Males (two specimens) wing 76.0-77.5; tail 67.0; 

 exposed culmen 14.5-15.2; tarsus 18.5-19.0. 



Range. — Kambara, Fiji Islands. 



Remarks. — Four specimens were collected on Kambara in the Fiji 

 Islands, 7 December. ,Two (including the Type) are adult males 

 and a third with the sex not indicated is supposed to be a female. A 

 description of this latter bird is as follows : — Crown and hind neck 

 dusky green-gray; sides of head and collar on hind neck slate color; 

 anterior portion of crown washed with mouse-gray; lores indistinctly 

 whitish; back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail coverts between buffy 



