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brown and olive-brown; wings and tail dull black; lesser wing coverts 

 between buffy brown and olive-brown; middle and greater coverts 

 dull black tipped with this same brown; inner secondaries margined 

 all around with light buff; rectrices tipped indistinctly with whitish; 

 outer web of outer rectrix cream-buff; inner web edged with whitish; 

 breast honey-yellow; feathers of throat with bases white, washed with 

 honey-yellow; color of under parts changing to cinnamon-buff on 

 abdomen, sides and under tail coverts; bill (in dried skin) brown. 



The remaining specimen is marked questionably as an immature 

 male. It resembles the female in general, but has the dark, adult 

 plumage appearing on the upper surface. Beneath it is paler than the 

 female, and has the throat almost white. The bill is black as in the 

 adult males. 



This fine species may be distinguished readily from Myiagm vani- 

 korensis (Quoy and Gaimard), to which it is allied, by its much darker 

 coloration, and larger, heavier bill. 



SYLVIIDAE. 



64. Conopoderas atypha, sp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Conopoderas caffra (Sparrman) but upper 

 parts duller brown, pale margins on feathers of dorsal surface nearly 

 obsolete, wing much shorter, bill shorter. 



Tijpe.— V. S. N. M. 212,493. Male. Polynesia: Paumotu Is- 

 lands; Fakarava, 11 October, 1899. C. H. Townsend. 



Range. — The Paumotu Islands, Polynesia (specimens examined 

 from the following islands: — Whitsunday, Akiaki, Makemo, Apataki, 

 Fakarava, Carlshoft', Tikei, Rangiroa, Makatea, and Hereheretue). 



Remarks. — This distinct species is represented by a series of forty- 

 two specimens. In this material there are six forms (including the 

 typical one) that may be considered as subspecies. 



As has been pointed out by Oberholser (Proc. U. S. N. M., 1905, 

 28, p. 900) Turdus longirostns of Gmelin (Syst. nat., 1789, 1, pt. 2, 

 p. 823) based on Latham's long-billed thrush from the Island of Eimeo, 

 is preoccupied by Sitta caffra of Sparrman (Mus. Carlson., 1786, fasc. 1, 

 no. 4, pi. 4). As Sparrman assigns no locality for his bird the type- 

 locality of Sitta caffra Sparrman is hereby designated as Tahiti, as 

 this is the probable place from which his specimens came. 



Conopoderas atypha apparently occurs upon most if not all of the 



