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tint, but the blue much lighter, pale, and of a silvery cobalt, instead 

 of tlie deep cobalt-blue of M. cijnneus. The mautle is also smaller 

 and more circumscribed. 



Hab. Moretou Bay {F. Strange). Gould Coll. 



Rhipidura MACGiLLivRAYi, sp. n. (Plate LXVII.) 



Adult male. General colour above brown, the head dull ashy 

 grey ; least wing-coverts liive the back ; median and greater coverts 

 dusky brown, tipped with white, forming a double band across the 

 wing ; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, the secondaries 

 externally margined with fulvous, the innermost with white ; upper 

 tail-coverts blackish ; tail-feathers blackish, all but the centre ones 

 with wliite shafts and very narrowly tipped with ashy whitish, which 

 extends a little way down the end of the inner webs in the outermost 

 feathers, the last tail-feather being whitish on the outer web, brown 

 towards the end ; lores dusky blackish ; ear-coverts and feathers 

 below the eye ashy brown ; above the lores a spot of dull white, 

 and changing to ochreous buff above the eye ; chin and fore part of 

 cheeks dull white, the hinder cheeks ochraceous buff like the under 

 surface of the body, becoming deeper on the thighs and hghter on 

 the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ochraceous 

 buff; quills dusky brown below, light ashy along the edge of the 

 hiner web. Total length 6-2 inches, culmeu 0-45, wing 2*9, tail 3-5, 

 tarsus 0"7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 6-2 

 inches, cuhnen 0-5, wing 27, tail 3-4, tarsus 07. 



Hah. Lord Howe's Island, Sept. 13, 1853 {J. Macgillivraij) . 

 Gould collection. 



Examples of this Flycatcher were found in a box of birds collected 

 during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Herald' which contained several other 

 rarities from Lord Howe's Island. The present species (which I 

 dedicate to the memory of John Macgillivray, who collected the 

 specimens) is a very distinct one, differing at once from B. albiscapa 

 and the other allied species by the conspicuous ochreous-buff spot 

 above the eye, this being white in the other Rhipidurce enumerated 

 by me (/. c). 



SiPHIA OBSCXJRA, sp. n. 



Adult. General colour above olive greenish, inclining to Hghter 

 olive on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; quills light olive-brown, 

 edged with' the same brighter olive as the rump ; wing-coverts dark 

 olive-green like the back ; quills dusky brown, externally olive-green, 

 the primaries edged with brighter olive ; crown dark slaty grey, with 

 a slight wash of oli\e-green ; lores dusky blackish, surmounted by 

 a white streak from above the ear-coverts to the base of the bill ; 

 ear-coverts dusky ash-brown with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body isabelline-brown, a little whiter on the throat 

 and centre of the breast ; thighs deeper and more tawny ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries olive, the latter with a tinge of brighter olive- 

 yellow ; quills dusky brown below, fulvescent along the edge of the 



