378 MUSCICAPXJ)J5. 



not extending so far down as in the male. Total length 5*3 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2-7, tail 2-25, tarsus 0"6o. 

 Hah. Samoa or Navigators' Islands. 



a,h. S 2 ^^- ^^' Upolu, Samoa Islands. Kev. S. J.Whitmee [C.]. 

 c. Ad. sk. Samoa. Godeffroy Museum. 



6. Myiagra modesta. 



Myiagra modesta, Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Id. Pacific Ocean, p. 18 ; id. 

 'Hand-l. B. i. p. 328,' no. 492-5. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above leaden grey, washed 

 with glossy steel-green on the back ; wing-coverts like the back ; 

 quills dusky brown, externally light leaden grey ; tail-feathers leaden 

 grey, dusky on the inner webs, narrowly edged with dull white at 

 the tips, the outer feathers more plainly ; head and neck glossy 

 steel-green, of a leaden-grey cast, the ear-coverts and sides of face 

 duller ; a line at the base of the forehead and the feathers in front 

 of the eye light grey ; eyelid whitish ; checks and under surface of 

 body light orange-rufous, whiter on the throat and fore part of 

 cheeks, and fading into buff on the sides of the body ; abdomen, 

 under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing-coverts white ; thighs 

 dusky, the feathers edged with white ; quills ashy brown below, 

 whitish along the inner web. Total length 5*7 inches, culmen 0'55, 

 wing 2-75, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. New Ireland. 



a. Ad. sk. New Ireland. Purchased. 



7. Myiagra caledonica. 



Myiagra caledonica, Bp. Rev. ct Mar/, de Zool. 1 857, p. 55 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 328, no. 4924 ; id. in Brenchley's Cruise of the 

 ' Curaqoa; pi. 8. fig. 2 ; Laijard, Ibis, 1877, p. 358. 



MyiagTR perspicillata. Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 161 ; Flnsch, New- 

 Guinea, p. 170 ; Marie, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xxvii. p. 327 ; 

 Sclater Sf Sale. Ibis, 1877, p. 362. 



Myiagra viridinitens, Gray, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 102 ; id. Cat. B. Trop. 

 Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 18 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 328, no. 4922 ; 3Iarie, 

 Actes Soc. Limi. Bordeaux, xxvii. p. 327 ; Sclater 8f Sedv. Ibis, 

 1877, p. 302. 



Adult male (typo of species). Above glossy greenish black ; wings 

 dusky black, the coverts edged with greenish like the back ; quills 

 obscurely edged with dingy grey ; tail black, with a slight whitish 

 edging at the tip, increasing in extent towards the outermost, which 

 is edged with white along the outer web ; sides of face, sides of 

 neck, entire throat, and fore neck greenish black like the back ; rest 

 of under surface of body pure white, the sides dusky grey ; thighs 

 dull brown ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries white, with blackish 

 bases ; quills ashy brown below, edged with white along the inner 

 web. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-85, tail 2-7, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



