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witli brownish white, tail narrow!}' tipped with greyish white. Under parts white, 

 breast more or less strongly washed with rnfous buff. Iris light ochraceous 

 (Rido-way V. 7); legs and feet with claws slate-colour. Total length about 130 mm.; 

 wing 71 — 73: tail 60 — 62; culmen 17. Local name: "Chugangan" or "C'hug- 

 wangwan." 



? ad. Top of head slate-colour, slightly glossy. Back and rurap grey, washed 

 with ferruginous brown ; wing-coverts with rusty edges ; under parts as in male, 

 but not only the breast, but rather the whole of the under parts with a rufous wash, 

 which is strongest on the breast and vanishes on the belly. Smaller than »iale : 

 culmen 15 — 16 mm.; wing 66—68; tail 59. Local name : " Chichilica." Iris, feet, 

 and bill as in mrrfe. 



I have no doubt that these two birds are male smd /e?nale, as all our skins 

 are sexed accordingly. Oustalet also came to the same conclusion. But if this 

 information is right, the inhabitants of Guam have different names for the sexes 

 —a thing which may be observed elsewhere, for example by myself in Curasao. 

 This species is apparently confined to Guam, where it seems to be common ; it 

 was not found by our collectors on Saipan, nor did the French collectors find it 

 elsewhere than on Guam. 



A nest with one egg was found in a " Kamachiri " tree, three feet from the 

 o-round, February 14th, 1895. The nest is somewhat flat, with a thick bottom, but 

 not very thick walls. It is composed of fibres and rootlets, interwoven with lichens, 

 cobwebs, and leaves, and is about 55 mm. wide and hardly 22 mm. deep. The 

 single egg reminds one much of an egg of Lanius coUurio in colour. It is of a 

 brownish cream-colour, with a zone of heavy dark brown and deeper-lying cinereous 

 blotches and spots nearer to the thick end, and measures 19 : 14-6 mm. Nest and 

 egg are here described for the first time. 



10. Myzomela rubratra (Less.) (Oust. I. p. 197). 



Both on Guam and Saipan, evidently very common on the former, but less 

 numerous on the latter island. Local name : " Segegi" or " Sgegi." Colour of bill 

 Kidgw. II. 1 (black); iris III. 11 (Prout's brown); legs and toes II. 4 (slatc- 

 colonr) ; claws II. 3 (blackish slate). 



"We have received over fifty skins of this bird, which is very numerous on 

 Guam. The m.alen are much larger ; the females have the wing about 6 mm. 

 shorter, and have the red paler, the wing and wing-coverts not pure black, but dark 

 olive-brown, the remiges with greenish olive edges on the outer webs, the back 

 less red, and the abdomen and vent more olive greyish brown, not black. 



Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. XXXVIII. p. 263, described Mi/zomela major ex 

 insulis Caroliuis ab Hombr. & Jacq. as different from J/, rubratra from the Marianne 

 Islands with the diagnosis : " Similis praecedenti, sed major et percoccinea." That 

 is all— no measurements, nothing more! Oustalet, NaturalUte 1889. p. 261, 

 mentions Myzomela rubratra from the Mariannes, and says : " Representee par 

 des individus de tallies trfes diff^rentes, trouves dans la meme ile (.1/. rubratra 

 ordinaire et .1/. rubratra var. major Bp.)." Oustalet, t.c. p. 200, says that some 

 specimens from Pagan and Agrigan, collected by Marche, are entirely similar to the 

 type of M. major, and therefore he regards this name as synonymous to M. rubratra. 

 I cannot see any striking differences in size in our large series, beyond the 



