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At page 302 of the previous volume would be placed, therefore : — 



10 rt. PH^ORNIS. 



Type. 



rhajornis, iSclater, Ibis, 1859, p. 327 P. obsciu'a. 



Bill o{ Phmornis obscura, to show position of nostrils. 

 Mange. Confined to the Sandwich Islands. 



1. PhaBornis obscura. 



Dusky Flycatcher, LatJi. Gen. 8yn. ii. pt. 1, p. 344. 



Muscicapa obscura, Gm. S. N. i. p. 945 (ex Lath.) ; Grmj, Gen. B. 



i. p. 263. 

 Tsenioptera obscura, Cass. U.S. Ripl. Exp. p. 155, pi. 9. fig. 3 ; Dole, 



Pr. Bost. Soc. N. II. xii. p. 300. 

 Chasiempis obscura, Ilattl. Arch. f. Natwg. 1852, p. 1.33. 

 Phaeornis obscura, Sclater, Ibis, 1859, p. 327, et 1871, p. 360; id. 



P. Z. S. 1878, p. 347. 

 Eopsaltria (Chasiempis) obscura, Graij, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacific 



Ocean, p. 22. 

 Eopsaltria obscura, Gray, Hund-l. B. i. p. 390, uo. 5926. 



Adult male (Ililo, Owhyhee : J. Murray, Voy. of H.M.S. ' Chal- 

 lenger '). General colour above dusky olive-brown, greyer on the 

 forehead and fore part of crown ; wing-coverts and primary-coverts 

 dark brown, edged with the same colour as the back ; quills dark 

 brown, broadly washed with olive-brown externally, and inclining 

 to rufous-brown near the bases ; tail brown ; lores, feathers in 

 front of eye, and fore part of cheeks a little more rufous-brown ; 

 feathers below the eye and ear-coverts dull olive-brown ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body ashy grey, the vent and under tail-coverts 

 white ; under wing-coverts ashy grey shaded with brown ; quills 

 dusky brown below, fulvesceut near the base of the inner web. 

 Total length 7'2 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 4-35, tail 3-2, tarsus 1-3. 



Adult female. Similar in colour to the male. Total length 6-6 

 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 4, tail 2-9, tarsus 1-3. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands. 



