5;{. MVIAriRA, 379 



YuiuKj male. General colour above dull leaden grey glossed with 

 greenish, the head very little darker than the hack, and more plainly 

 glossed with dull greenish ; least and median coverts uniform with 

 the back, the greater series brown, narrowly tipped with whitish ; 

 quills brown, narrowly edged with lighter brown ; tail-feathers 

 brown, the penultimate one tipped with white on the inner web, 

 the outermost white for nearly the terminal half, and edged with 

 white along the outer web ; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts 

 greenish black ; eyelid white ; cheeks, throat, and fore neck deep 

 orange-rnfous, almost chestnut ; the rest of the under surface white, 

 tinged with orange-buff on the sides of the body ; under wing-coverfcs 

 and axillaries light orange-buff; quills dark brown below, ashy 

 whitish along the inner web ; " iris dark brown " (Brenehlei/). 

 Total length 5-5 inches, culmeu 0-6o, wing 2-7, tail 2-5, tarsus 0'7. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in being paler and more ashy 

 grey, browner on the back, the head alone with a dull greenish 

 gloss ; wing-coverts brown like the back, with a narrow whitish tip 

 to the greater series ; quills brown, mai'gined with lighter brown, 

 the inner secondaries edged with whitish at the tip ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, slightly tipped with whitish, increasing in extent 

 towards the outer feathers, the outermost white along the external 

 web and for nearly the terminal third of the inner one ; lores ashy 

 grey ; eyelid white ; ear-coverts darker grey than the head ; cheeks, 

 sides of neck, throat, and chest orange-rufous, the breast buff, fading 

 into white on the abdomen, vent, and under tail-coverts ; thighs 

 brown; under wing-coverts and axillaries light orange-buff ; quills 

 ashy brown below, light orange-buff along the inner web. Total 

 length 5'2 inches, culmcn 0*65, wing 2"65, tail 2-o5, tarsus 0"6o. 



Hah. New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands. 



a. (S ad. sk. Port de France, New Cale- J. Breuchley, Esc[. [P.]. 



donia, Oct. 1865. 



b. (S jnv. s]c. Nu, Port de France. J. Macgillivray, Esq. [C.j. 



(Type of M. perspicillata.) 



c. 5 ad. sk. New Caledonia. Purchased. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Loyalty Islands, Sir G. Grey [P.]. 



(Type of M, uridinitens.) 



8. Myiagra melanura. 



Myiagia melauura, Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. Pacijic Ocean, p. 18 ; id. 

 Iland-l. B. i. p. 328, no. 4923 ; id. in Bre)ichJeifs Cruise of the 

 ' Cura^oa,' pi. 8. fig. 1 ; Tristr. Ibis, 1870, p. 262. 



Adult nude (type of species). Similar to M. caledonica, but with 

 the tail entirely black, without the white edgings at the tip of the 

 inner web. Total length 5-5 inches, culmeu 0-65, wing 3, tail 2-55, 

 tarsus 0"7. 



Ohs. The character by which Mr. Gray separated M. melanura 

 from M. caledonica was the absence of white edging to the outer 

 tail-feather. Tliis is true of the Erromango bird, and of the one 

 from Yanua Lava ; but in the specimen from Aneiteum the outer 



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