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Myiomoira toitoi, Heiche/ib. .S'ys<. Av. Taf. Ixvii. tig. H ; Buller, B.N. 



Zeal. p. 124; Fimch, J.f. 0. 1872, p. 163, 1874, p. 189; Sharpe, 



Voy. Efeb. 8)- Terr. Birth, App. p. 26. 

 Muscicapa albopectiis, Ellman, Zuol. 1861, p. 7465. 



Adidt male. General colour above black with a distinct, though 

 small, frontal spot of white ; wings black, the inner primaries with 

 a white bar a little way from the base, represented by an ovate spot 

 of white on the outer web ; the secondaries distinctly white at the 

 base, forming a large wing-patch, the white extending for the greater 

 part of the outer web on some of the inner secondaries ; tail black, 

 the three outer tail-feathers white, increasing in extent towards the 

 outermost, each feather obliquely marked with black across the 

 inner web from the base upwards and having a black oblique apical 

 mark, these dark portions of the feathers decreasing in extent to- 

 wards the outermost as the white increases ; sides of face, sides of 

 neck, throat, and fore neck black ; remainder of under surface white, 

 the feathers black at base, the flanks somewhat washed with grey ; 

 thighs black, tipped with white ; under wing-coverts white, blackish 

 at base, the edge of the wings black ; quills blackish below, the 

 secondaries broadly white at the base ; " bill and tarsi blackish 

 brown, toes paler, yellow on their inner surface; iris black" 

 (JBuUer). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0*4, wing 2*7, tail 2-1, 

 tarsus 0'85. 



Adult female. Differs from the male. Ashy brown above, the 

 feathers with indistinct ashy-white shaft-lines ; upper taU-coverts 

 darker brown than the back, the outer feathers white, obliquely 

 marked with brown from the base across the inner web, and tipped 

 with brown ; the penultimate feather with a large triangular patch 

 of white at the tip of the inner web, the third with an indistinct 

 spot of white at the tip of the inner web ; wings dark brown, the 

 primaries obscurely barred with dull whitish, forming a diagonal bar 

 across the wing ; the secondaries conspicuously white at the base, 

 forming a large wing-patch somewhat tinged with brown ; at the 

 base of the forehead a small white spot ; lores and a ring of feathers 

 round the eye dull whitish ; sides of face dark ashy brown, mottled 

 with linear spots of white on the feathers ; rest of under surface of 

 body whitish, the sides of the body and thighs ashy brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axUlaries buffy white ; qiiiUs dark brown below, 

 barred with white near the base, broader across the inner secon- 

 daries. Total length 4*4 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2*55, tail 1-8, 

 tarsus 0-85. 



Hah. North Island, New Zealand ; Chatham Islands. 



a, b. S ad. sk. New Zealand. Colonial Museimi, Wel- 



lington [E.]. 



c. 2 ad. sk. New Zealand. Lieut. A. Smith [P.]. 



d. cJ ad.; e,/. $ ad.sk. NewZealand(J'..SY;-a«(7e). Capt. Stokes [P.]. 



g. ^ ad. sk. Chatham Islands. New Zealand Co. [P.]. 



