374 MUSCICAPID-a5. 



steel-green; feathers in front of eye dull greyish; remainder of 

 under surface white ; thighs dusky ; under wing-coverts and axU- 

 laries white ; quills ashy brown below, white along the inner web ; 

 " biU leaden blue, except at the tip, which is black ; feet black ; 

 iris black" (GoidJ). Total length 5-7 inches, cidmen 0"6o, wing 3-1, 

 tail 2\S, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. General colour above bluish grey, rather duUer and 

 browner on the bade ; wing-coverts and quills dusky brown, exter- 

 nally edged with bluish grey, the least series like the back ; tail- 

 feathers light ashy brown, with reddish-brown shafts, the outer 

 feathers considerably paler both at the tips and on the outer webs ; 

 forehead and lores slightly hoary; feathers below the eye darker 

 slate-colour ; eyelid dull whitish ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck 

 light reddish buff, paler on the breast ; rest of under surface of body 

 white, the flanks slightly washed with grey ; thighs dusky ; under 

 wing- coverts white, with dusky bases ; quills ashy brown below, 

 white along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-2 inches, 

 cnlmen 0*5, wing 2-8, tail 2-6, tarsus 0'6. 



Obs. I consider 21. conn'nna to be really a distinct species from 

 M. ruhecula, but on totally different grounds from those given by 

 Mr. Gould. Indeed, if we did not know that his specimens were 

 from North-west Australia, his figures and descriptions would be 

 referable to M. ruhecula. The chief difference in the male birds is 

 the presence of the black frontal line and black lores of M. concinna. 

 The specimens from South-eastern New Guinea belong to M. ruhecula, 

 not to M. concinna. 



Hah. Australia and Tasmania, ranging into South-eastern New 

 Guinea. 



a. (S ad. sk. Australia. Linuean Society [P.]. 



(Type of M. plumbea.) 



b. 2 ad sk. Australia. Linnean Society [P.]. 



(Type of M. nibecula.) 



c. 2 ad. sk. Australia. 



d,e. S 2 ^d. sk. Port Albany. Purchased. 



/, c? juv. sk. Duuk Island. J. MacgUlivray, Esq. [C.]. 



ff. cJ ad. St. Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 



h. 2 ad.; /. <S juv.sk. Near Port Moresby, 0. C. Stone, Esq. [C.]. 

 S.E. New Guinea. 



2. Myiagra concinna. 



Muscivore plombs5, Homhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 12 his, 



fig. 2. 

 Myiagra concinna, Gould, B. Austr. ii. pi. 90 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 321 ; 



Meichenb. Vof/. Neuholl. p. 224, no. 571 ; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. 



i. p. 254 ; Finsch, Weu- Guinea, p. 170; Dic/ffles, Orn. Austr. text 



to pi. 38 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 328, no. 4917 ; Ramsay, Pr. Linn. 



Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 182. 

 Mjaagra grisea, Jacq. et PucJier. Voy. Pole Sud, texts, iii. p. 78. 



Adult male. General colour above leaden grey, with a steel- 

 greenish gloss, deeper on the head, sides of face, sides of neck, throat, 



