53. MVIAOKA. 385 



tipped with reddish ochre ; quills dark brown, externally edged with 

 brown, like the back ; upper tail-coverts and tail blackish brown, 

 slightly margined with lighter brown and tipped with white, which 

 increases in extent towards the outermost ; head and nape dull ashy 

 black, forming a cap ; lores wliitish ; sides of face ashy blackish, 

 mottled with rufous spots on the ear-coverts ; cheeks and throat 

 rufous-chestnut ; rest of under surface white, the sides of body 

 washed with rufous-ochre ; the sides of the upper breast greyish 

 brown, washed with chestnut-red ; under wing-coverts and axilla- 

 ries white, with dusky bases ; quills light dusky brown, edged with 

 huffy white along the inner webs. Total length 5*2 inches, culmen 

 0-(), wing 2"8, tail 2-5, tarsus 0*8. 

 Hah. Viti Levu, Fiji Islands. 



a,b. cj 5 ad. sk. Interior of Viti Levu Museum Godeffxoy. 



{Kleinschmidt). 



17. Myiagra galeata, 



Myiagra galeata, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860. p. .352; Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, 

 p. 29; Fitisch, Neu-Guinea, p. 170; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 328, 

 no. 4920 ; Salvad, Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. viii. p. 377. 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above slaty blue, 

 with a strong steel-greenish lustre ; the wing-coverts like the back ; 

 quills brown, externally slaty grey ; tail slaty blue, more ashy 

 brown on the inner webs ; crown and nape and sides of face glossy 

 steel-black ; cheeks and entire under surface of body pure white, in- 

 cluding the under wing-coverts and axiUaries ; thighs dusky, with 

 whitish edgings ; quiUs dusky brown below, edged with lighter 

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

 wing 2"6, tail 2-1, tarsus 0'6. 



Adult male. Similar to the female. Total length 5-2 inches, wing 

 2-6, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-6. 



Young female. General colour above ashy brown, the head dull 

 slaty blue ; wing-coverts like the back, the quiUs dark brown, the 

 secondaries externally edged with whity brown ; tail light brown, 

 shaded with ashy grey on the centre feathers ; in front of the eye a 

 triangular patch of dull white ; eyelid huffy white ; sides of face 

 and ear-coverts slaty grey ; checks and under surface of body pale 

 orange-rufous, fading into reddish buff on the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts huffy whitish. Total length 5 inches, 

 culmen 0'(5, wing 2*4.5, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-55. 



Obs. In this species the sexes of the adults seem to be alike. 

 Several females, examined by Mr. Wallace in Batchiau and Coram 

 at different times, are exactly like the adult males. 



Ilab. Batchian, Gilolo, Morty Island, Ternatc, Ceram, Bouru. 



a. $ ad. sk. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. 2 ad. sk. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Gilolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [CJ. 



