IGS MUSCICAPIP^. 



3. Petrceca multicolor. 



Red-bellied Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. ii. pt. 1, p. 343, pi. 4 ; id. 



Gen. Hist. B. vi. p. 209, pi. 3. 

 Muscieapa multicolor, Gm. S. N. i. p. 944 {ex Lath.). 

 Muscicapa erythrogaster, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 479 ; Shaw, Nat. Misc. 



V. pi. 147 ; id. Gen. Zool. x. p. 400. 

 Petroica modesta *, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 147 ( 5 ) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 183. 

 Petroica piilcheHa, Gould, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 142 (c?) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 183. 

 Muscicapa dibapha, Forster, Descr. Anim. p. 267 {ex Turdus diba- 



phus, Forster, Icon. ined. 157, "Norfolk Island, Oct. 11, 1774"). 

 Petroica multicolor. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 183. 

 Petroica erythrogastra {nee Lath.), Gould, B. Austr. folio, iii. pi. 4 ; 



Beiehenb. Voy. Neuholl. pp. 62, 289 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 299 ; Gray, 



Ibis, 1862, p. 224; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 526; Gratj, 



Iland-l. B. i. p. 228, no. 3292. 



Adult male. General colour above black, the grey bases to the 

 rump-feathers showing slightly ; wings entirely black, with no white 

 on the secondaries, only the median coverts and the inner greater 

 ones pure white ; tail black, the outer feathers very slightly pointed 

 with white and a little browner ; forehead and fore part of crown 

 silky white ; lores, feathers above the eye, sides of face, and throat 

 black ; rest of the under surface of body bright scarlet ; the lower 

 flanks, vent, and under tail-coverts white ; thighs black, sides of 

 breast black ; under wing-coverts white, with blackish bases, those 

 near the lower edge of the wing black, forming a spot ; quills ashy 

 brown below, browner along the edge of the inner web, the inner 

 secondaries white at the base below. Total length 4-6 inches, cul- 

 men 0-.55, wing 2-75, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-95. 



Hab. Norfolk Island. 



a. (S ad. sk. Norfolk Island, June 1855 Voyage of- the ' Herald.' 



{Dr. F. M. Rayner). 

 6. cJ ad. sk. Norfolk Island, June 1865. Julius Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Petrceca pusiUa. 



Petroica pusilla, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp. 1848, p. 93, pi. 25. fig. 3 ; 



Hartl. in Wiegm. Arch. 1852, p. 100; Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp. 



p. 164, pi. 9. fig. 4 ; Gray, Cat. B. Trap. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 14 ; 



Finsch ^ Hartl. Faun. Central-Polyn. p. 70 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 228, no. 3294. 

 Petrceca kleinschmidtif, Finsch, P. Z. <S. 1875, p. 643 ; id. Journ. Godeffr. 



Mus. Heft xii, p. 6, Taf. 1. fig. 2. 



Adult male. General colour above black, with a white band across 



* P. modesta. The habitat of this species is given by Mr. Gould as " New 

 Holland ;" and if this locality had been correct, the name wonld have pro- 

 bably taken precedence over my name of P. legyii. It appears, however, that 

 an error in the locality had taken place, as Mr. Gould subsequently, in both his 

 later works, refers his Petroica modesta to the Norfolk-Island Robin, and trans- 

 lates his Latin diagnosis of P. modesta for the female of the latter bird. 



t I have Dr. Finsch's personal assurance that this species is the same as 

 6'. pusilla. 



