434 MCSCICAPIDJi. 



eyes black" {D'AJhertis). Total length 7'2 inches, eulincu 0-95, 

 wing 3-S5, tail 3, tarsus 0'55. 



Bab. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. sk. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Waigiou. Purchased. 



64. POMAEEA. 



Pomarea, Bp. C. li. xx.wiii. p. 050 P. nigi-a. 



Range. Society Islands ; Marquesas Islands. 



Key to the SjJccies. 



fi. Belly black nigra, p. 434. 



b. Bell}' chestnut castaneiventris, p. 435. 



1. Pomarea nigra. 



Muscicapa nigra, Sparrm. Mus. Carls, i. pi. 23; Sundev. Crit, oih. 



Sparrm. p. 6. 

 Luteous Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. .342 ( $). 

 Society Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. p. 174. 

 ^tuscicapa lutea, Gm. S, N. i. p. 944 {ex Lath.) ; Forster, Descr. 



Anhn. p, 162. 

 Muscicapa maupitiensis, Garn. Voy. Coquille, Zool. i. p. 592. 

 Muscicapa pomarea, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 193; id. Voy. Coquillr, 



Atlas, pi. 18. figs. A, B, C. 

 Muscicapa atra, Fo7-ster, Descr. Anim. pp. 171, 172. 

 Monarcha nigra, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 260 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 326 ; 



Peak, U.S. Ripl. Ftp. p. 100 ; Hartl Arch. f. Katurg. 1852, 



p. 101 ; Cassin, U.S. E.ipl. E.vp. p. 146 ; Gray, Cat. B. Trop. 



Isl. Pacific Ocean, p. 19 ; Finsch u. JIartl. Fauna Centralpolyn. 



p. 90 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 321, no. 4807. 

 Pomarea nigra, Bp. C. P. xxxviii. p. 650. 

 Monarclia mendozfe, Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 170 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 321, no. 4808. 



Youjig. General colour above brown, rather fulvescent on the 

 head and mantle, more chocolate on the rump ; wing-coverts and 

 quills diill brown, edged with lighter brown than the back ; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, lighter brown on their margins ; in front of 

 the eye a large spot of dull white, as also the ring round the eye ; 

 sides of face and ear-coverts light brown, somewhat tinged with 

 rufous ; under surface of body buffy white, the sides of the body 

 washed with rufous-brown and streaked with dark brown ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries light rufous-brown ; quills ashy brown 

 below, edged with bufiy white along the inner web. Total length 

 1-6 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-4, tail 3, tarsus 1-15. 



Adult female (?). Pure white, the tail also, the shafts partly 

 brown ; bastard wing and primary-coverts black, edged with white ; 

 primaries brown, broadly edged with white, and white at the base, 

 increasing in extent on the secondaries, the innermost of which are 

 white with onlv a mesial line of black : head and neck all round 



