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7. Myzomela boiei. 



Myzomela boiei, S. lliiller, Verh. Land- en Volkenk. p. 172 (1839- 

 44) ; id. c^- Schler/. Verh. Zool., Aves, p. QQ, pi. 10. figs. 1 & 2 ; 

 Gray, Gen. B., Append, p. 5; Bp. C. A. i. p. 394; Reichenh. 

 Handb. spec. Orn., Aferopinie, p. 112, pi. 484. figs. 3416-17; Gray, 

 P. Z. S. 1860, p. 349; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 154, no. 1994; Salvad. 

 P. Z. S. 1878, p. 84; id. Ann. Mm. Civ. Gen. xvi. p. 72; id. Orn. 

 Papuasia, ii. p. 299. 



Myzomela boiaji, Forbes, P. Z. .S. 1879, p. 262. 



Adult male. Head all round, middle line of back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts brilliant scarlet ; prpeocular region blackish ; 

 rest of ujiper parts, including tail and wings, sides of neck, and fore 

 neck, uniform black ; rest of underparts greyish, -white ; under wing- 

 coverts and inner margin of quills white ; bill black ; feet horn- 

 colour, with yellowish soles. Total length about 4 inches, culmen 

 0*o-0'6, wing 2-2, tail 1*5, tarsus U*65. 



Female. Above olive-brown, inclining to greyish brown on hind 

 neck and crown ; feathers covering the base of the culmen and 

 upper throat washed with dull carmine-red ; quills externally edged 

 with olive-yellow ; underparts of body greyish white ; chest and 

 fore neck strongly washed with grey. Culmen 0-55 inch, wing 2-05, 

 tail 1-4, tarsus 0-()5. 



Hah. .Banda Island. 



a. c? ad. sk. Banda Island. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. $ ad. sk. Bauda Island. Voy. of H.M.S. ' Challenger.' 



8. Myzomela lifuensis. 



Myzomela lifuensis, F. L. S,- L. C. Lat/ard, Ibis, 1878, p. 258 ; Forbes, 



P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 273. 

 ? Myzomela erythrocephala, Marie, Ibis, 1877, p. 362. 



Adult male. Head and part of neck all round, middle line of back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts brilliant scarlet : rest of the upper 

 parts black ; loral and praeocular regions and rest of underparts 

 sooty black ; some of the under wiug-coverts mottled with grey and 

 black : inner margin of quills whitish ; " bill black ; feet and iris 

 very dark brown " {Layard). Culmen OGo inch, wing 2-2-2-'do, 

 tail 1*5, tarsus 0-7. 



Hah. Loyalty Islands. 



a, b. cJ ad. sk. Lifu, Lovalty Islands, E. L. Layai'd, Esq. rC.l. 



Aug. 1878. 



9. Myzomela erythrocephala. 



Myzomela erythrocephala, Gould, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 144 ; id. B. Amtr. 

 iv. pi. 64; Gray, Gen.B. ii. p. 118; Bp. C.A. i. p. 395; Reichenb. 

 Vog. Xeuholl. no. 50; id. Handb. spec. Orn., Meropin(e,^.\\Z, 

 pi. 485. figs. 432.3-25; 6Vfl?/, P. Z. 6'. 1858, p. 173, 1801, p. 434; 

 id. Cat. B. Neio Guinea, p. 23 ; Rosenh. TIjdsch. Ned. Ind. xiv. 

 p. 236 ; id. J. f. O. 1864, p. 122 ; Goidd, Handb. B. Austr. i. 

 p. 556; Higgles, Orn, Austr, pi.; Salvad. ^- d' Albert, Ann. Mus. 



