180 LANIID^. 



5. Eopsaltria caledonica. 



Olive Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 342. 



^luscicapa caledonica, Gmel. S. JV. i. p. 944. 



Muscicapa olivacea, G. Forst. Desn: Anim. p. 271. 



Eopsaltria variegata, Graxj, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 162. 



Eopsaltria ? caledonica, id. turn. cit. p. 162. 



Eopsaltria ? caledonica, Verr. et 0. des Murs, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 



1860, p. 392. 

 Eopsaltria caledonica. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 390, no. 5916 5 Layard, 



Ibis, 1878, p. 255 ; Tristram, op. cit. 1879, p. 183. 



Adult male. General colour above, scapulars, and upper tail- 

 coverts olive-browu ; wing-coverts and quills dusky, margined -with 

 rufous-olive ; the innermost secondaries with almost the whole 

 outer web rufous-olive ; tail-feathers uniform rufous-olive ; crown 

 and sides of the head ashy ; chin, cheeks, throat, and fore neck 

 white, each feather just margined with blackish brown ; breast and 

 sides of abdomen pale brownish grey ; abdomen and thighs yel- 

 lowish white ; under tail-coverts yellow ; edge of the wing yel- 

 lowish white ; under wing-coverts greyish brown, with the basal 

 half whitish, and the inner web of the secondaries broadly mar- 

 gined with rufous-white ; biU " black-brown ;" feet brown in the 

 skin. 



Adult female *. Similar to the male, but has the head and hind 

 neck olivaceous brown like the back. The outer web of the secon- 

 daries, the whole greater wing-coverts, and the terminal half of the 

 three or four innermost secondaries are rufous, so that the greater 

 part of the wing when folded shows this colour ; chin and throat 

 pale yellow, the feathers sUghtly margined with blackish brown ; 

 breast and sides of abdomen rufous-grey, middle of abdomen rufous- 

 white ; under tail-coverts yellow. 



S . Total length 5-7 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-3, tail 2-8, tarsus 1. 



$. „ 5-6 „ „ 0-7 „ 3-2 „ 2-7 „ 1. 



Hah. New Caledonia. 



a,h. (S 9. ad. sk. Nu, Port de France, May 8, J. Macgillivrav, Esq. 

 1858. [C.]. (Types of ^. 



variegata.) 



6. Eopsaltria pulverulenta, 



Myiolestes pulverulentus, Bp. (e.r Mull. Mus. Ziigd.) C. A. i. p. 358. 

 Eopsaltria leucura, Gould, Ann. 8j- Mag. Xat. Hist. (4) iv. p. 108 ; id. 



B. Austr. Sup2)l. fol. v. ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 390, no. 5922 ; 



Rammy, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. 8. W. 1. (1877) pp. 52, 380 ; id. op. 



cit. ii. (1878) p. 184. 

 ? Colluricincla pulverulentus {Mull), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 386, 



no. 5844. 

 Eopsaltria pulverulenta, Sah-ad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. (1878) 



p. 333. 

 PcEcilodryas pulverulenta, Salvad. Oni. Papuas. e Molucche, ii. p. 88. 



♦ According to Gray, the specimen described above is an adult female ; but 

 Canon Tristram, in 'Ibis,' 1S79, p. 183, says "The adult of both sexes seem 

 exactly alike, and Imve the throat white with the faintest tinge of yellow." 



