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(?) Pachycephala ALBIFRONS. 



Eopsaltria albifrons, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exped. p. 123. t. 10. f. 2. 



Samoan or Navigators' Islands. 



Peale remarks that probably these three are the same species ; 

 but the natives consider them as three distinct birds. 



Pachycephala melanops. 



Eopsaltria melanops, Pucher., Homb. & Jacq. Voy. au Pole Sud, 

 i. p. 56. t. 5.f.2. 



Pachycephala Jacquinoti, Pr. B. Consp. Av. i. p. 329. 

 Tonga Islands (Vavao). 



Note. — A * Pie grieche,' which is probably a species of Pachy- 

 cephala, is noticed by Quoy and Gaimard as found in Tongatabu 

 (Voy. de l'Astrol. Zool. i. p. 159), but without any description. 



Pachycephala xanthetraea. B.M. 



Muscicapa xanthetraea, Forst. Descr. &c. p. 268. 

 Pachycephala xanthetraea, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1859, p. 162. 

 ' Magga' of the natives. 

 New Caledonia (Island of Nu). 



Eopsaltria caledonica. B.M. 



Olive Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 342. 



Muscicapa olivacea, G. Forst. Descr. &c. p. 271. 



Muscicapa caledonica, Gmel. S. N. i. p. 944. 



Eopsaltria f caledonica, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1859, p. 162. 



Eopsaltria variegata, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1859, p. 162. 



New Caledonia (Island of Nu). 



Eopsaltria cucullata. B.M. 



Top of head and ear-coverts rufous-brown; back, margins of quills, 

 and tail, brownish-olive ; beneath the body yellowish-white ; throat 

 white, with the feathers narrowly margined with rufous-brown ; bill 

 black ; feet pale plumbeous. 



Length 6" 3'". 



New Hebrides (Aneiteum).' 



Eopsaltria gambierana. 



Lanius gambieranus, Less. Echo de M. S. 1844, p. 232. 

 Eopsaltria gambierana, Hartl. Wiegm. Arch, fur Naturg. 1852, 

 p. 133. 



Low or Paumotu Islands (Gambier's Islands or Mangarewa). 



Eopsaltria (Chasiempsis) sandwichensis. B.M. 



Sandwich Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. p. 344. 

 Muscicapa sandivichensis, Gmel. S.N.i. p. 945; Bloxh. Byron's 

 Voy. p. 250. 



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