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and tail brown, externally edged willi grey : head darker than the 

 back, and strongly glossed with green ; sides of face and ear-coverts 

 dark like the crown ; in front of the eye a spot of dull white ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body light chestnut or cinnamon-buff, the chin 

 and fore j^art of cheeks whiter ; thighs whitish ; under wing-coverts 

 and axiUaries white, with blackish bases ; quills dusky browu below, 

 edged with white along the inner web ; " bill blue ; legs blue-black ; 

 iris reddish brown " (Laifard). Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0"H, 

 wing 2-75, tail 2-25, tarsus 0'65. 



Uab. Fiji Islands : universally distributed. 



a. Ad.sk, [Samoan Islands.] Piu'chased. (Type of ^If. 



riffiivntris.) 



b. S ad. sk. Ovalau, Sept. 15, 1874. E. L. Layard, Esq. [C; . 



c. 5 ad. sk. Ovalau, June 12, 1875. E. L. Layard, Esq. [0.°. 



d. (5' ad. sk. Levuka, Ovalau, July J. Brenchlev, Esq. [P.". 



I860. 



e. (5 ad. sk. Matuku Island ( Voycu/e F. M. Rayner, Esq. [P.]. 



of the ^Herald'). 



f. (J- 6 2 ad. sk. Ngau Island. F. M. Rayner, Esq. [P.]. 

 /(. J ad. sk. Matherata Island {Lay- Rev. 8. J. Whitmee. 



ard). 

 i. cJ ad. sk. Kandavu, Sept. 1876 Godeffroy Museum. 



{Kleinschinidt). 

 k. $ ad. sk. ValiiLele,Aug.28,1876 Godeffroy Mii.*eum. 



( Kleinschn kit) . 



5. Myiagra albiventris. 



Platvrhynchus albiventris, Peak, U.S. E.vpl. Exp. p. 103, pi. 27. fig. 3 ; 



Hartl. in inW/m. Arch. 1852, p. 101. 

 Platygnathus albiventris, Hartl. in Wiegm. Arch. 1852, p. 133. 

 Myiagra rubecula, Cas^. U.S. E.vpl. Exp. p. 149 Qiec Lath.). 

 Myiagra albiventris, Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 18 ; 



Einsch 8f Hartl. Faim. Centrnlpohin. p. 93, pi. 9. fig. 1 ; Graij, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 328, no. 4926 ; " Whitmee, Ibis, 1875, p. 440 ; 



Layard, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 492. 



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

 grey lustre ; wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish, without any lustre on the edges of the 

 feathers, which are slightly shaded with slaty grey externally ; tail 

 black, slightly glossy on the edges of the feathers ; head, sides of 

 face, and ear-coverts glossy steel-greenish black ; cheeks, throat, and 

 chest rich chestnut ; rest of under surface of body pure white, the 

 sides of the upper breast slaty grey, glossed with steel-green ; under 

 wing-coverts and axiUaries white, with dusky black bases ; quills 

 slaty black below, narrowly edged with white along the inner web ; 

 " bill light blue -, legs black ; iris brown" {Peale). Total length 5-5 

 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-85, tail 2-55, tarsus 0*6. 



Adidt female. Similar to the male, but not so richly colotired, the 

 head and sides of face not much darker than the back, and with no 

 more gloss ; lores greyish ; chestnut colour of throat not so rich, and 



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