9. I.ALAGE. 101 



pure white ; tail-feathers white, blackish at the base aiul along the 

 edge of the outer web, the two centre feathers black with a white tip ; 

 least wing-coverts purplish black, the inner ones white with black 

 edges ; median wing-coverts pure white ; greater series also white, 

 the outer ones black, with a large diamond-shaped spot of white at 

 the tip; primary-coverts black, white at base of outer web; quills 

 black, the secondaries edged and tipped with white, the innermost 

 entrrely pure white ; lores, feathers round the eye, an eyebrow 

 joining the sides of the crown, and sides of nape and neck white, the 

 latter so extended as to leave only a broad nuchal band from the head 

 to the mantle ; entire under surface of body creamy white, including 

 the under wing- and tail -coverts and the quills at the base of the 

 inner web ; across the fore neck a band of purplish black ; bill and 

 legs black ; " iris black " {Brencldey), " deep brown " {E. L. Layard). 

 Total length 5-6 inches, culraen 0-6, wing 3-15, tail 2-55, tarsus 0-8. 



Female. Like the male, but having the white ends to the tail- 

 feathers less extended, and having some of the wing-coverts and 

 secondaries edged with fulvous (probably remains of an immature 

 plumage). Total length 5-3 inches, wing 3, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-9. 



Hab. Banks's Islands, and Yate in the New Hebrides group. 



a,h. (^2 ^tl- sk- Vanua Lava, Banks's Group, J. Brencbley, Esq. [P.]. 

 August 1865. (Tj-pes of species.) 



12. Lalage rufiventer. ' 



Lanius feiTUgiueus, Freycinet, Voy. Uranie, p. 96, pi. 18 {nee Gm.). 

 Schetba ferruginea, Lessmi, Traite, p. .374. 

 Oxynotus ruiiventer, Swahu. Faun. Bor.-Am., Birds, p. 48.3. 

 Campephaga capensis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mks. A. S. B. p. 191. 

 Oxvnotus feiTiigineus, Hartl. Faun. Madag. 1862, p. 51, note ; Schl. 



P. Z. S. 1866; p. 423 ; ScM. ^ Poll. Faun. Madaq. p. 82. 

 Oxynotus tvpicus, HaHl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 160; Pollen, Ibis, 1866, 



p. 278, pL 7; Hartl. Voy. Maday. 1877, p. 182. 

 Campephaga rufiventer, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 339, no. 5131. 



Adidt male. General colour above slaty grey, darker on the head, 

 the feathers of which have dark shaft-streaks ; least wing-coverts 

 like the back, the greater and median series blackish, edged with 

 slaty grey ; primary-coverts black ; cpiills blackish, externallj' edged 

 with slaty grey, shading off into white on the primaries and outer 

 secondaries, which have also a terminal notch of white ; two centre 

 tail-feathers blackish edged with grey, the rest of the feathers black 

 tipped with white, increasing in extent towards the outermost ; 

 lores dull whitish, extending over the front of the eye and forming 

 an indistinct eyebrow ; feathers in front of the eye black ; feathers 

 below the eye, cheeks, and ear-coverts light grey, the latter with 

 white shaft-streaks, the upper edge of the ear-coverts dark grey like 

 the head ; rest of under surface of body light grey, the throat and 

 centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; thighs dark 

 grey ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills brown below, 

 the inner web very broadly white for nearly half its extent ; " bill 



