190 Canon Tristram on Birds from 



arete terminatis. ? mai'i similis^ sed peetore et thoraee 

 dilutioribus. Long. tot. 5-25, alee 2*87, eaudse 2*75, rostri 

 a rictu '75, tarsi *65. 

 This, among the rufous Myiagrce, is parallel in its differ- 

 ences and affinities to our new M. luguieri among the black 

 group of this genus, standing midway between M. caledonica 

 and M. tannensis, nob. From the former it is at once dis- 

 tinguished by the small extent of white on the tail-feathers^ 

 from the latter by the fact of having a white edging to them. 

 In all these species the males and females show similar differ- 

 ences. They are nearly allied to Mr.Wallace^s M. rufigula from 

 Timor, but may be at once distinguished by the much greater 

 breadth of the bill. 



13. Pachycepiiala littayei^ Layard, Ibis^ 1878, p. 255. 

 (Plate VI.) 



I am now able to characterize the female, Avhich Mr. Layard 

 had not obtained when he described the species. Unlike most 

 others of the genus, the female, as will be seen by the Plate, 

 is little less brilliant in colour than her mate. There is a 

 total absence of the black gorget and the black head, which 

 latter is rusty brown ; and the yellow collar on the back of 

 the neck is represented by a faint yellowish band. 



14. Lalage montrouzieri, Yerr. & Desm. 



I can discover no difference whatever between this and 

 New-Caledonian specimens. 



15. Graucalus lifuensis, sp. nov. 



G. unicolor, totus niger, intense fuliginosus, minime cinereus. 

 Long, tota 14^ alfe 7'5, caudee '7, tarsi 1*25, rostri a rictu 

 1'75. Sexus similes. 



This bird may be at once distinguished from G. cinereus 

 [ = caledonicus) in the islands on either sides of it by the 

 uniform sooty glossless black of its whole plumage, without 

 the slightest tendency to an ashy hue. On placing a series 

 of each species side by side, it is impossible to mistake them. 



16. Aplonis atronitens, G. R. Gr. 



The great size of this Aplonis, its massive beak, and deeply 

 arched culmen separate it at once from its congeners. Mr. 



