384 MVSCICAPID.E. 



a miiTow frouttil Hue, lores, feathers above and below the eye, and 

 sides of head black, the latter with a slaty gloss ; a broad band of 

 azure-blue from the angle of the mouth and occupying the ear- 

 coverts ; cheeks and entire throat deep maroon, paler on the chin, 

 the feathers of the fore neck slightly tipped with slaty blue ; rest 

 of under surface white, the sides of the upper breast slaty blue, as 

 also the under wing-coverts ; axillaries blackish, tipped with white ; 

 quills blackish below, edged with brown along the inner web ; " bill 

 orange ; legs brown ; iris brown " (Layard). Total length 6'1 

 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-2, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Above chocolate-brown ; 

 wings blackish brown, the coverts broadly tipped with rusty ; (juills 

 edged with rusty browu, the innermost secondaries broadly edged 

 with rusty ; tail-feathers blackish, the three outer ones tipped with 

 dull white, increasing in extent towards the outermost ; head brown, 

 the sides of the crown and nape somewhat shaded with slate- 

 colour ; feathers in front of the eye and eyelid dull white ; sides of 

 face below the eye slaty grey, with another broad streak of white 

 from below the fore part of the eye and occupying the ear-coverts ; 

 cheeks, throat, and fore neck maroon-brown, paler on the chin ; 

 rest of under surface white, the sides rufous-brown ; thighs dark 

 slaty ; sides of upper breast brown ; " upper mandible brown, lower 

 one orange ; legs brown ; iris brown " (Layard). Total length 5-8 

 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 3*05, tail 2-75, tarsus 0"85. 



Hab. Fiji Islands : Taviuni. 



a,b. c? $ ad. sk. Ngila, Taviuni, Fiji, E. L. Layard, Esq. [C.]. 



Auo'ust 1875. 



16. Myiagra castaneigiilaris. 



Myiagra castaneigularis, Lat/ard, Ibis, 1870, pp. 389, 392. 



Adidt male. General colour above dark bluish grey, the least 

 wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts and quiUs blackish, 

 edged with bluish grey, like the back ; tail blackish, with slight grey 

 margins to the feathers, which are slightly tipped with white, in- 

 creasing in extent towards the outer ones, which have very broad 

 white ends ; crown of head silvery azure, forming a cap ; lores, 

 feathers above the eye, and sides of crown greyish black, extending 

 round the back of the nape in a broad though indistinct band ; a 

 band of feathers from the angle of the mouth and ear- coverts azure- 

 blue ; cheeks and entire throat deep chestnut ; rest of under surface, 

 from the fore neck downwards, pure white, the flanks mixed with 

 dusky grey, and the sides of the breast slaty blue ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries white ; quills dusky brown, lighter brown 

 along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-6, 

 wing 2-95, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Above dark browu, the 

 least wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts darker 

 brown externally, edged with the same brown as the back, and 



