collected in Dutch Neta Guinea. 145 



obtained on the Utakwa River, which should be typical 

 M. n. saturatiis. 



Specimen " a/' an immature male, has no black patch on 

 the chest and in other respects resembles the female. 



*Myiagra rubecula. 



Myiagra ruhecula (Lath.) ; van Oort, p. 86 (1909). 



A specimen, the sex of vi^hich vi^as not ascertained, was 

 procured at Merauke, and referred to this species by 

 Dr. van Oort. It seems possible that it really belongs to 

 my M. I. mimikce, in which the sexes are alike in plumage. 



In M. ruhecula { = M. plumhea Vigors & Horsf.) the male 

 is greyish-blue on the throat and back, quite different from 

 the female. 



Myiagra latirostyis mimikae. 



Myiagra latii'ostris Gould ; Sharpe, Cat. iv. p. 381 (1879) 

 [part., Aru] ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. x. p. 466 (1903). 



Myiagra mimikce Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. B. 0. (J* xxix. p. 26 

 (1911). 



a, 5. (5' ? . Mouth of the Mimika River, 21st & 22nd 

 March, 1911. [Nos. 1217, 1229, C.B. B. G.'] '^{Types of the 

 subspecies.) 



c-n. c?" ? et (^ imm. Mouth of the Mimika River, 

 29th Nov.-16th Dec. 1910; 22nd & 24th March, 1911. 

 [Nos. 9, 18, 60, 88, 105, 132, 144, 152, 1227, 1269, 1270, 

 G. H. B. G.] 



Adult male. Nearly allied to M. latirostris Gould, from 

 Port Essington, but larger, and with the throat and breast 

 of a rather darker rust-red (not paler as stated in the 

 original description). Iris brown ; upper mandible black ; 

 lower mandible light slate-colour ; feet black. 



Total length 153 mm. ; wing 74-76 (as compared with 70^ 

 71 in M. latirostris) ; tail 72-75 ; tarsus 19. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with scarcely any 

 metallic sheen on the grey mantle, and with the throat much 

 paler, and of a pale rust-colour. 



Birds from the Aru Islands seem to be identical with 



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