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and extending over the outer web to the base ; the blackish 

 colour from the inner web extends in a wedge-shaped stripe 

 along the shaft ; the next feather similar, but without the whitish 

 mark on the outer web ; an oval oblique spot of cream color on 

 the inner web only on the third quill, the 4th, 5th and 6th 

 without spots and of a uniform ash brown ; under tail-coverts 

 creamy white ; tarsi olive brown ; bill black. 



Total length, 12 inches ; bill, from forehead, 0'6 inch ; from 

 base of nostril, 05 inch ; wing, 6*1 inches ; tail to central 

 feathers 6*8 inches, to outer 3*6 inches ; tarsi 0*85 inch ; middle 

 toe and nail, 105 inches. 



Sex. Female. 



Hob. Island of Tanna. 



This interesting species has the peculiarity of having the 

 feathers of the chest forked, as in some of the Ptilonopi. 



I have named it in honor of Dr. Mackinlay, of H. M. S. 

 Nymphe, an officer much attached to the science and the study 

 of ornithology, and to whom the Museum is indebted for many 

 fine specimens collected in the S. S. Islands. 



Macropygia rufa, sp. NOV. 



The whole of the upper surface chocolate brown ; the tail- 

 quills washed with ashy brown ; primary coverts; primary and 

 secondary quills, dark ashy brown ; tail above washed with the 

 same ashy tint ; the axilliaries, under tail and wing-coverts, and 

 inner webs of the quills towards the base deep chocolate red ; 

 all the under surface chocolate brown, paler on the throat ; 

 minutely freckled on the chest and sides of the neck and face, 

 with ashy ; the feathers on chest slightly forked. The outer tail 

 feathers have a transverse oblique slate-colored band towards 

 the tip, extending on the inner web towards the base ; the 2nd 

 and 3rd similar to the 4th has some ashy slate-colored shadings 

 on the inner web towards the tip ; bill black, legs and feet greyish 

 flesh color. 



Total length, 11 inches ; wing, 57 ; tail, 6*1 ; tarsi, 08 ; bill 

 from forehead, 0*65; from base of nostril, 0*5; middle toe and 

 nail, 1 inch. 



