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215. METABOLUS. ,„ 



Type. 



Metabulus, Bp. (J. R. xxxviii. p. UoU (18o4) M. rugensis. 



Head and foot of Mctaholiis rugensis. 

 Range. Confined to the Caroline group of islands. 



1. Metabolus rugensis. 



Drymophile de Rouk, Ilomhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 13. 

 Muscicapa rugensis, Humhr. tt Jacq. Ann. Set. Nat. (2) xvi. p. 312. 

 Monarcha rugeusis, IIa7il. Arch. f. Naturq. 1852, p. 133 ; id, P. Z. S. 



1807, p. 829; Grai/, Hund-l. B. i. p. 321, no. 4809. 

 Collurieiucla rugensis, Jacq. et Pucher. Vo}/. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 02. 

 Metabolus rugensis, Bp. C. P. xxxviii. p. 050. 

 Monarcha (Metabolus) rugensis. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Id. Pacific 



Ocean, p. 19. 



Aihdt male. General colour above and below pure white, the 

 quills with brown shafts and shaded with brown towards their tips ; 

 shafts of tail-feathers brown towards the bases ; forehead, lores, 

 feathers in front of the eye reaching above and below the anterior 

 part of the latter, entire cheeks, and throat glossy steel-black ; " bill 

 black, with a white patch for half the length of the upper mandible ; 

 feet black ; iris black ; eye bordered with black in front and below " 

 (Humbron ct Jacquinoi). Total length 7*8 inches, culmen 0-95, 

 wing 4, tail 3-35, tarsus 1-05. 



Adult female. Upper parts rufous, including the upper part of 

 the head, which is a little clearer ; throat black ; thorax and a 

 collar separating the hinder part of the head from the upper part of 

 the back black, both spotted with rufous ; abdomen mixed with 

 rufous, black, and white ; some of the flank-plumes white at the tips ; 

 the white colour, on the contrary, occupies nearly the whole of the 

 under tail-coverts, which are tipped with black ; wing by no means 

 uniform in its coloration ; primaries black externally, rufous on the 

 outer web; the secondaries almost entirely black, bordered all round 

 with rufous, the intermediate ones being pale blackish along each 

 side of the shaft, rufous everywhere else ; wing below similarly 

 coloured, the shade being paler only ; the under wijig-coverts are black 

 and rufous ; upper wing-coverts rufous on the outer webs, black 

 internally ; tail-feathers rufous both above and below. {Homhron 

 et Jacquinot.) 



A male in immature or changing plumage, between the rufous 



