380 MPSCICAPID^. 



feather is narroirly edged with white, as in the Loyalty-Island bird, 

 thoiigh not to the same extent. The amount of white on the tail 

 evidently varies, and does not commend itself to me as a strong 

 specific character. 



Adult female . General colour above light brown, somewhat shaded 

 with ashy, especially on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing- 

 coverts like the back, the edge of the wing white, as well as the tips 

 to the greater coverts ; qiiiUs dark brown, edged with lighter brown 

 like the back ; taU light brown, the outer feathers ashy white at the 

 tip of the inner webs, increasing in extent towards the outermost 

 feather, which is edged with ashy white along the outer web also ; 

 head darker than the back and distinctly shaded with slaty grey, as 

 also the sides of the face : feathers in front of the eye lighter grey ; 

 round the eye a ring of whitish plumes ; cheeks, throat, and breast 

 light orange-buff, becoming gradually paler towards the abdomen, 

 which is buffy white, the iinder tail-coverts whiter ; under wing- 

 coverts huffy white, the axillaries whiter ; quills dusky brown below, 

 edged with white along the inner web. 



Hab. New Hebrides and Banks's group. 



a. S ad. sk. Erromango, New Hebrides. J. MacgiUivray, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 h. 2 ad. sic. Aneiteum, New Hebrides. J. MacgiUivray, Esq. [C.]. 



c. j ad. sk. Aneiteum. Purchased. 



d. cS ad. sk. Vanua Lava, Banks's group, J. Brenchley, Esq. [P. ]• 



August 18C5. 



9. Myiagra pluto, 



Myiagra pluto, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 644 ; id. Journ. Mus. Godeffr. 

 Heft xii. p. 29. 



Adult mah. General colour above and below dark slate-colour, 

 somewhat glossed with steel-grey on the back and breast ; wing- 

 coverts like back, quills blackish ; upper taU-coverts blacker than 

 the back, glossed with steel-green ; tail black, glossed with greenish 

 on the edges of the feathers ; crown of head brighter than the rest of 

 the upper surface, glossy steel-green ; under surface of quills edged 

 with ashy brown along the inner webs. Total length G-8 inches, 

 culmen 0"65, wing 3'2.5, tail 3"05, tarsus 0"75. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but having the chin and throat 

 dark brown. (FInseh.) 



Hab. Island of Ponapc, Seniavin grouj). 



a. cJ ad. sk. Ponape Island {Kuhary). Godeflroy Mu.-eum. 



10. Myiagra atra. 



Myiagi'a ati'a, Mei/er, Sitz. h. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 498 ; Sclater, Ibis, 

 1874, p. 418. 



Adult male (Kordo, Misori, Beccari). General colour above and 

 below blue-black, rather lighter below ; wings and tail black, the 



