18 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF THE 



Platijgnathusvanikorensis, Hartl.Wiegm. Arch, fur Naturg. 1852, 



J). 132. 



Miiscicupn i'ani/corensis, G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 262. 

 Mijiayra vanikorensis, Cass. U. S. Expl. Exped. (1858) p. 148. 



Island of Vanikoro ; Feejee Islands. 



Myiagra viridinitens. B.M. 



Mijiagra viridinitens, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1859, p. 162. 

 Loyalty Islands. 



Myiagra melanura. B.M. 



It is in general appearance like M. viridinitens, but the outer 

 margin of the outer tail-feather is not, nor are the tips of the first, 

 second and third feathers, white. They are but slightly margined 

 on the inner edge and at the tips with white. 



2. Greyish-brown on back ; head and rump plumbeous; wings 

 and tail-feathers fuscous-black ; throat and abdomen white tinged 

 with rufous ; breast rufous. 



Length5"4"'; wings2" 11"'. 



New Hebrides (Erromango, Aneiteum). 



Myiagra oceanica. 



Myiagra oceanica, Homb. & Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud, i. p. 77. 

 t. 12*. f. 1,2. 



Hogole or Hogoleu or Torres Islands. 



Myiagra caledonica. B.M. 



Myiagra caledonica, Pr. B. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 49. 

 Myiagra perspiciUata, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1859, p. 161 ? 



New Caledonia. 



Myiagra albiventris. 



Platyrhynchus albiventris, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 102. 

 Platygnathus albiventris, Hartl.Wiegm. Arch, fiir Naturg. 1852, 

 p. 132. 



Myiagra rubecula, (Lath.) Cass. U.S. Expl. Exped. 1858, p. 149. 



Samoan or Navigators' Islands. 



Myiagra modesta. B.M. 



Like 31. latirostris, Gould, but smaller in size ; the bill is not so 

 wide at the base, and more gradually narrowed towards the tip ; 

 the throat white, slightly tinged with rufous ; the tail plumbeous- 

 grey, with the tips of the feathers (except the two middle ones) 

 narrowly margined with white. 



Length 5" 9'" ; wings 2" 9'". 



New Ireland. 



