53. MYIAGRA. 375 



and fore neck, which are steel-green of au ashy shade ; a narrow 

 frontal line, lores, and feathers in front of the ej'e black ; rest of 

 under surface pure white, including the under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries ; wing-coverts above ashy grey like the back, glossed 

 with green; quills dusky brown, edged with ashy whitish, below 

 greyish brown, edged with whitish along the inner web ; tail-feathers 

 ashy brown, edged with steel-greenish ; " bill leaden-blue, black at 

 extreme tip; feet blackish grey; iris brown" (Gould). Total 

 length 5-6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-95, tail 2-65, tarsus 0*65. 

 Hub. N^orthern and iS^orth-western Australia. 



a, b. (J 2 ad. st. Port Essingtou. Capt. W. Chambers [P-l- 



c. c? ad. sk. Port Essiiigton. Capt. W. Chambers [P.J. 



d. c? ad. sk. N.W. Australia, Feb. 21, J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



1856. 

 «>/• d ad. sk. Depot, Victoria River, J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 

 Nov. 1855. 



3. Myiagra nitida. 



Myiagi-a nitida, Gould, P. Z. S. 18:37, p. 142 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 261 ; 

 Gould, B. Austr. folio, ii. pi. 91 ; Reiclienb. Toy. Neuholl. p. 223, 

 no. 570; Bp. Cuns}}. Gen. Av. i. p. 321 ; Jacq. ef Fucker. Voy. Pole 

 Slid, texts, iii. p. 78 ; Gotdd, Hundh. B. Austi\ i. p. 255 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 328, no. 4916; Diqiiles, Orn. Austr. pi. 38. fig. 2; 

 Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 586. 



Myiagre brillant, Honibr. et Jacq. Voy. Pule Sud, Atlas, pi. 12 bis, 



Myiagra rubecida, Ramsay, P: Lnm. Soc. A. S. W. ii. p. 182 (nee 

 Lath.). 



Adult male. General colour above glossy steel-black with a greeuish 

 shade ; wing-coverts uniform with the back ; greater coverts and 

 quills black, edged with steel-green, the innermost secondaries 

 washed with green ; tail black, edged with steel-green ; sides of 

 face, sides of neck, throat, and fore neck glossy greenish black ; 

 remainder of under surface white, including the under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries, the latter with black bases ; sides of body 

 shaded with dusky grey ; thighs white, -^ith dusky bases ; quills 

 blackish below, edged with white along the inner web ; " bill lead- 

 colour at base, passing into black at the tip ; feet black ; iris black "' 

 (Goidd). Total length G'6 inches, culmen 0-6, wing B-55, tail 3-2, 

 tarsus 0-65. 



Adidt femcde. Different from the male. General colour above 

 brown shaded with slaty grey, the latter colour more developed on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coveits imiform with the 

 back, the primary-coverts darker brown ; quills externally edged 

 with ashy brown ; tail brown, with pale shafts, the penultimate 

 feather lighter brown, the outermost still paler, edged with white 

 along the outer web and at the tip of the inner one : head darker 

 slate-colour than the back, and strongly glossed with steel-blue ; 

 ear-coverts and feathers under the eye blackish ; forehead washed 

 with hoary grey ; feathers in front of the eye and eyelid dusky 

 white ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck orange-rufous, the rest of the 



