from the New Hebrides. 341 



This race of wliite-sliafted Fantail Flycatchers appears to 

 be intermediate between R. brenchleyi and R. suturata. It 

 has a bright ochraceous under surface like the latter, and 

 the mark on the throat is black, bxit the inner edge of the 

 tail-feathers has a much broader margin of white, so that 

 the Erromangan bird appears to be a distinct form like 

 R. brenchleyi. 



Myiagra melanura Gray; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. 

 p. 379 (1879). 



M. caledouica melanura Wiglesw. t. c. p. 23. 

 No. 10. S !id. Sandwich Bay, Mallicollo, May 13, 1899.— 



Feet dark plumbeous ; iris dark with golden centre. 



Common. 

 No. 25. S ad. Port Sandwich, Mallicollo, May 17, 1899.— 



Bill plumbeous, dark at tip. 

 No. 30. ^ ad. Island of Rano, Mallicollo, May 17, 



1899. 



Myiagra t.annaensis Tristr. Ibis, 1879, p. 192. 

 M. jjerspicillata tannaensis Wiglesw. t. c. p. 23. 

 No. 32. Ad. Foreland Bay, Epi. Bill lead-colour, darker 



at tip ; feet lead-colour ; iris dark. 

 Nos. 43, 46. ? Ad. Polenia Bay, Erromanga, May 26, 

 1899. 



Petrceca ambrynensis, sp. nov. 



P. similis P. pusillce, gutture nigerrimo, sed secundariis 



intimis nigris, miuime albido limbatis distinguenda. 



Long. tot. 4'3 poll. ; culm. 0"55; alse 2*4 ; caudae2'7; 



tarsi 0-75. 

 No. 99. c^ ad. No. 100. (^ juv. Dip Point, Ambryn Isl, 



Aug. 15, 1899. — Bill and feet black; iris dark. 

 The adult male has the black of the upper parts and of 

 the throat intense like P. pusilla of Samoa and the Fiji 

 Islands, and does not resemble F . similis from Aneiteum 

 and Tanna, as one would have expected. In fact the 

 Ambryn bird appears to be intermediate between the two 

 forms. 



