376 MU3CICAPID.E. 



under surface white, slightly washed with orauge-huff, the flanks 

 washed with duskj- grey ; thighs dull brown ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries pale orange-fulvous, with dusky bases ; quills ashy 

 brown below, edged with white along the inner web. Total length 

 6-4 inches, culmen 0-G, wing 3-35, tail 3-15, tarsus 0-65. 



Yoinig male. Similar to the old female, but with more gloss on 

 the upper surface, the orange of the throat much deeper and more 

 chestnut, and shghtly shaded with black. 



Hab. Australia and Tasmania. 



a. c? ad. St. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [P. 



b. cJ juv. St. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [P. 

 c> d. c? $ ad. sk. Port Albany. Purchased. 

 e. Q ad. sk. Cape Upstart, April 1st, J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 



1843. 

 /. 5 ad. sk. T.ismania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 



"i^. cJ ad. sk. Tasmania. Antarctic Expedition [C.]. 



4. Myiagra rufiventris. (Plate XI. fig. 1.). 



Platyi'hynchos vanikorensis*, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de VAstrol. i. 



p. 183, pi. o. fig. 1 ; Hartl. in Wieffm. Arch. 1852, p. 101 ; Peak, 



U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 102. 

 Muscicapa vanikorensis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 263. 

 Platygnatlius vanikorensis, Hartl. in Wiegm. Arch. 1852, p. 132. 

 Myiagi'a vanikorensis, Cass. U.S. Expl. E.vp. p. 148; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 329, no. 49-36. 

 Myiagra rufiventris, Elliot, Ibis, 1859, p. 393. 

 Myiagra castaneiventris (nee Monarcha castaneiventris,Yew.'f),Finsch 



'^ Hartl. Eatin. C'entralpoh/n. p. 93, pi. 9. figs. 2, 3 ; Whitmee, 



Ibis, 1875, p. 447 ; Layar'd, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 435 ; id. Ibis, 1876, 



p. 392 ; Finsch, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 734. 



Adult male. General colour slaty grey, with a greenish gloss, the 

 sides of the rump more decidedly greyer ; wings dark brown, the 

 least and median coverts greenish ; greater coverts greyish, edged 

 with greenish ; quills edged with grey, slightly shaded with green ; 

 tail ashy brown, glossed slightly with green, the outer feathers 

 narrowly edged with white at the tip of the inner web ; head all 

 round, throat, fore neck, and sides of neck glossy greenish black, 

 the rest of the under surface chestnut ; thighs white, with grey 

 bases ; under wing-covcrts and axillaries white, slightly tinged with 

 yellowish ; quills dusky brown below, ashy whitish along the edge 

 of the inner web ; " biU blue-black ; legs the same ; iris brown " 

 {Layard). Total length 5'5 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3, tail 2-5, 

 tarsus 0"7. 



Adult female. Diifers from the male in being much paler in 

 colour ; upper surface ashy grey, without any greenish gloss ; wings 



* Dr. Oustalet kindly informs me that the type of M. vanikorensis is un- 

 doubtedly of the same species as M.rvfivenfris; but the name cannot be used as 

 it perpetuates an error in locality. 



t This species of ^'erreaiix's, apparently represented only by the unique spe- 

 cimen in the British Museum, is quite a diiferent bird, and belongs to the genus 

 Poinarea. I have figured both species on the same Plate to clear up the matter. 



