20. MtJSCYLVA. 233 



whitish ; checks and under surface of body dull white ; under wing- 

 coverts white, with dusky blackish bases ; ([uills ashy brown below, 

 edged with white along the inner wob. Total length 0-1 inches, 

 eulmen 0-6, wing 3*2, tail 2-45, tarsus 0-95. (Mus. Cantahr.) 



Adult female. General colour above rusty cinnamon, somewhat 

 mottled on the back with a subterminal shade of paler fulvous ; 

 rump-feathers black, tipped with chestnut ; upper tail-coverts dark 

 cinnamon ; tail-feathers creamy white, with a band of dusky brown 

 at the ti}) of the feathers ; wing-coverts like the back, the median 

 series with dull brown bases broadly edged with the colour of the 

 Ixiek ; greater coverts and primary-coverts dark brown, edged with 

 cinnamon-bufF ; quills dark brown, margined with rufous, the pri- 

 maries broadly edged with whitish buff near the -base ; feathers in 

 front of the eye buffy whitish ; sides of face and sides of neck, throat, 

 and breast pale cinnamon-buff, lighter on the latter ; remainder of 

 under surface buffy white ; the flanks, thighs, aud under tail-coverts 

 cinnamon, as also the under wing-coverts, the latter with dusky 

 bases ; quills ashy brown below, fulvous along the edge of the inner 

 web. Total length 7 inches, eulmen 0'7o, wing 3, tail 2-5, tarsus 

 0-95. {Mhs. Cantahr.) 



Hah. Ilarotonga Island, Pacific Ocean. 



20. MUSCYLVA. rj^.^ 



Muscylva, Homhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pule Sud, pi. xi. fig. 2 

 (1842-53, descr. mdla, nee Muscijsylvia, Hodgs. 1844) , . M. lessoui. 



Bill of Micscylva kssoni. 

 Ran^c. Confined to the Fiji groui) of islands, 



1. Muscylva lessoni. 



Muscylva de Lesson, Homhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 11. 



Muscylva lessoni, Jacq. et Puclwr. Voy. Pole Sud, Tc.rte, iii. p. 75. 

 Rliipidura lessoni, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 258 ; id. B. Trap. Id. Pacific 



Ocean, p. 17 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 3;12, no. 4992. 

 Muuarcha cinerea, Pea/e, U.S. Ejcpl. Kip., Birds, p. 101, pi. 27. fig. 2 ; 



Hartl. in Wieym. Arch. 1852, p. 101. 

 Leucocerca le.ssoni, Bjt. Consp. i. p. 324, no. 6; Cass. U.S. Ejcpl. 



Exp. p. 165 ; Ilartl. Ibis, 18G4, p. 232. 

 Mouarcha le.ssoni, Finsch i^- Ilartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. p. 88, Taf. 7. 



fig. 5 ; Layard, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 434 ; id. Ibis, 187(5, pp. 144, 392. 



AdaJt fcmaU. General colour above grey, the upper tail-coverts 

 black with broad white edgings : tail-feathers black, tipped with 

 white, gradually increasing in extent towards the outermost feather ; 



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