440 Canon Tristram on Birds from the 



This is one of the group of russet-coloured Myiagra so 

 numerous in all the Pacific islands ; but the very pale fawn- 

 coloured tail, with only the two median rectrices brown, at 

 once marks it off from every other species with which I 

 am acquainted. 



15. Rhipidura russata, sp. nov. 



R. fronte, dorso et crisso castaneo-rufis ; capite et occipite 



cum linea suboculari f uscis ; alis caudaque fuscis, secun- 



dariis extiis et rectricibus ad basin dorso concoloribus, 



his omnibus albo tertninatis : subtiis alba, uropygio rufo ; 



torque subgutturali nigro. Long. tot. 5-5, alse 2'55, 



caudse 3*25 . 



This species approaches nearest to R. semicollaris, MiilL, 



but differs in having the upper back red, the extent of red 



on the forehead greater, the black gorget narrower, and the 



white of the underparts purer. It is altogether a smaller bird. 



16. Symmorphus (Lalage) affinis, sp. nov. 



(J S. affinis S. leucopygio, sed uropygio albo et colore rectricis 



extim.8e distinguendus. 

 ? mari similis quoad distributionem colorum, sed brunnca 



nee nigra. 

 This species also approaches S. navius from the New He- 

 brides and New Caledonia, but may be at once discriminated 

 by the absence of white on the tail-feathers, which are black in 

 the male and brown in the female throughout their whole 

 length, excepting a minute white tip on the outer rectrices. 

 The black of the male is glossy, the russet-brown of the 

 female becomes almost chestnut on the forehead. The iris 

 is dark brown, the feet black. 



17. Edoliisoma salomonis, sp. nov. 



? E. supra totum ciuereum ; alis et cauda nigris, tectricibus 

 superioribus arete cinereo marginatis ; loris nigris ; gula, 

 pectore, abdomine, tectricibus inferioribus et subalaribus 

 Isete castaneis ; rectricibus externis castaneis pogonio 

 interne ad basin nigro, proximis castaneo marginatis, 

 tertiis stria castanea terminali prseditis, mediis cinereo 

 tinctis. 



9 jr. superne cinercum, jjlumis undique albo terminatis ; tec- 

 tricibus siqjcrioribus, primariis et secundariis rufo ter- 



