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uat^^ rostro et pedibus iiigris. Long, tota d'7, alse 2-8_, 

 caudae 2'96, rostri a rictu '75, tarsi v. 

 This species is curiously intermediate between M. viridi- 

 nitens, G. R. Gr., from New Caledonia, and M. melanura, 

 G. R. Gr., from New Hebrides. In measui*ements, tlie tail 

 is shorter than in its congener ; the wing equals that of M. 

 vhHdmitefis, but is one third of an inch shorter than in M. 

 melanura. The black on the breast does not extend so far 

 as in the New-Hebrides bird. But the key to the separa- 

 tion of the three species is in the tail. While that of 31. mela- 

 nura has no trace of white, and that of M. viridinitens has the 

 lower third of the outer tail-feather, the whole of its outer 

 web and a large margin of its inner web, and the extremities, 

 excepting the central pair, white, our new species has simply 

 white tips to all its tail-feathers, and the inner and outer 

 edges of the outer pair narrowly fringed with white. 



12. Myiagra intermedi.\, sp. nov. 

 cJ corpore supra schistaceo, pileo intensiore, thorace et pectore 

 Isete castaneis, abdomine albo : rectricibus externis albo 

 marginatis in utroque pogonio, ceteris rectricibus albo 



(6) TuRDUs POLIO CEPHALUS, Lath., = T. nestnr,GiO\Ad., = T. badius, Lsiih.. 

 Norfolk Island only. With a grey head and black body, the head of the 



female much darker than that of the male. Parallel to T. pritzbtieri, but 

 the head very differently coloured, ashy gi'ey instead of bright pale sepia. 

 T. hadius, Lath., must sink into a synonym, as Mr. Sharpe and I discovered 

 on examining the specimens in the British Museum. There is no record 

 whence they were procured ; and though Australia is written on the stands 

 in pencil, it is probable they were only Norfolk-Island birds received via 

 Australia. No true Thrush has yet been discovered on the Australian 

 continent, only the Oreoeinclce, which, as Mr. Seebohm observes, have not 

 yet become differentiated, nor learned to cast off the spotted plumage of 

 their childhood when they arrive at maturity. 



(7) TuRDUs PRiTZBUEBi, Layard, Ibis, 1878, p. 254. 

 Lifu, Loyalty Islands. 



(8) TuRDUS BicoLOR, Layard, =3/c/7</fl ruficeps, E. P. fJamsay. 

 Kandavu, Fiji Islands. Described as having a cinnamou-red head and 



neck (Ibis, 1876, p. 153). I have not seen it. 



(9) TuRDUs TEMPESTi, Layard, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 420. 



Taviuni, Fiji Islands. This also is particoloured, vrith body dark 

 brown and the head and brca-^t di'ab, tinged with red. 



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