216 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



PRIONOPIDAE. 



75. Pinarolestes heinei (Finsch and Hartlaub). 



Myiolestis heinei Finsch and Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. soc. London, 1869, p. 546. 

 (Tonga Islands) . 



Two males and three females were secured at Nomuka, 2 Decem- 

 ber. The Ught margin of the edges of the mandibles seems very 

 characteristic in this species. The sexes are similar in color. There 

 seem to be no pre\'ious records of the species from this island. 



76. Pinarolestes nesiotes, sp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Pinarolestes mtiensis (Hartlaub) but 

 larger, with heavier bill, and with white tips absent on four central 

 rectrices and more restricted on the remaining feathers. 



Type.— J]. S. N. M. 212,438. Female. Polynesia: Fiji Islands; 

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



Description. — Crown and hind neck mummy-brown, changing to 

 raw umber on the back and rump; wing and tail fuscous, the wing 

 coverts, outer webs of primaries and edgings of secondaries raw 

 umber; rectrices save the two central pairs lightly tipped with white; 

 four central tail feathers immaculate, with darker cross bars faintly 

 indicated in certain lights; throat, breast, and abdomen smoke-gray; 

 feathers of forehead with smoke-gray bases, forming an obscure 

 patch of pale color; eye ring and lores obscurely blackish; auricular 

 region hair-brown; rami, side's of head behind eye, sides of neck, and 

 sides of breast light grayish olive; sides of abdomen and flanks washed 

 with cinnamon-brown; under tail coverts buffy brown; tibia mouse- 

 gray. 



Measurements. — -Female {Type) wing 95; tail 80; exposed culmen 

 21; tarsus 25. 



Range. — Island of Kambara, Fiji Islands. 



Remarks. — One female (the Type) was secured at Kambara, Fiji 

 Islands, 7 December, 1899. The genus does not seem to have been 

 known from this island previously. Study of a large series of Pinaro- 

 lestes of the mtiensis group will probably show that the bird described 

 here is a subspecies of vitiensis. As given by Sharpe (Cat. birds Brit, 

 mus., 1877, 3, p. 300) the wing of P. vitiensis (sexes not indicated) 



