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especially on the under surface and rump ; lower mandible brownish 

 at base: (0. Finscli.) 

 Hah. Pelew Islands. 



7. Pinarolestes obscurus. 



Rectes obscura, Meyer, Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 390. 

 Colhiricincla sordida, Sitlvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genuv. ix. p. 931. 



Entire upper surface brownish grej-, with a tendency to an olive 

 shade of colour : wings and tail somewhat clearer brownish ; under 

 surface grey, with a tendency to a brownish shade, the abdomen 

 washed with whitish ; biU and feet black ; the claws somewhat 

 paler. Total length 7*7 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-7-4, tail 3-3-35, 

 tarsus 0-95. {A. B. Meyer.) 



Ohs. A comparison of the description of the CoIluHcincla sordida 

 of Count Salvadori with that of Rectes obscura leaves little doubt of 

 their being identical : the measurements are nearly exactly the same; 

 and the locality is the same. Salvadori notices that the inner webs 

 of the quills are margined with duU rufous — a feature omitted in 

 Meyer's description. 



Hab. Island of Jobi, in the Bay of Geelvink. 



8. Pinarolestes heinii. 



Mviolestes heinei, Finsch ^- Hartl. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 546 ; id. J. f. O. 

 1870, p. 126, tab. iv. ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 20. 



Adult. Above olivaceous dusky brown, the rump somewhat ru- 

 fescent ; quills obsolete dusky brown, margined with the same 

 colour as the back ; eyebrows, sides of the head, throat, and breast 

 dull grey ; sides of body ashy ; middle of abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts cineraceous ; space between the 

 nostrils and the eyes rather broadly blackish ; the ear-coverts obscure 

 dusky brown ; the four centre tail-feathers uniform with the back, 

 the lateral ones with a white spot at the tips ; bill blackish, the edge 

 of the mandibles whitish; feet blackish. Total length 7"-7" 2'", 

 bill 9'", wing 3" 6'", tail 2" 6'", tarsus 10'". (Fimch 6,- HartJaub.) 



Young. The beak is nearly uniformly dark, with very narrow 

 tomial margins. The end of the tail-feathers is pale, the apical spot 

 not being distinctly discernible. {F, t^- H.) 



Hab. Tonga Islands. 



9. Pinarolestes vitiensis. 



Myiolestes vitiensis, Hartl. Ibis, 1866, p. 173; Layard, Ibis, 1875, 

 pp. 145, 392 ; Finsch Sf Hartl. Faun. Central-Pohjn. p. 71, Taf. viii. 

 fig. 1. 



Colluricincla vitiensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 386. 



Adult male (Wakaia : E. L. Laijard). General colour above 

 chocolate-brown, slightly more rufous on the back, and especially so 

 on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings dark brown, with ch'oco- 



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