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on the rump and Upper tail-coverts. The pattern of the head that 

 of M. (]enibarhis, cxcept tliät ot tho bhick btripe below the eye 

 extends further back on the auriculars, and that tlie white part of 

 the malar stripe occupies the forward lialf. Chin pure white, this 

 color abruptly defined agaiUst the throat, which is rufbus-chestnut. 

 The reniaining underparts like those of the Martinique bird, except 

 that the gray of the breast extends more backward on tlie abdomen. 

 Wings and tail also have the same general appearance as in the 

 above-mentioned species; on the wings, however, the black speculum 

 of the secondaries is more reduced, the adjaceiit grey cross-bands 

 being broader, and on the tail the white is more extended, especially 

 on the outer pair, in which the middle third of the outer web is 

 white; besides, the outer webs of the three outermost rectrices are 

 broadly tipped with white, and the following two pairs have also 

 very distinct white tips. 

 Hab.: Santa Lucia. 

 291. Myiagra Freycineiti. 



M. E. Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, s^ance du 

 12. mars 1881. 



Les parties superieures du corps sont d'un gris de fer, qui 

 passe au bruu sur les ailes et sur la queue, les parties inferieures 

 d'uu blanc nuance de roux sur la poitrine, le bec et les pattes 

 noirs. U mesure environ 0,140; aile 0,070; queue 0,064; tarse 0,020; 

 bec 0,011 M. La femelle offre precisement les meraes dimensions, 

 que le male, mais porte une autre livree. Le dessus de sa töte 

 etant seul d'un gris fer, et passant meme au roussätre sur le front 

 et sur les sourcils , le reste des parties superieures Präsentant au 

 contraire une teinte brune, avec des bordures couleur de rouille 

 aux plumes secondaires et aux tectrices, la poitrine etant d'un 

 roux qui va en s'^claircissant sur la gorge mais qui reste toujours 

 plus prononcö que chez les mäles, le ventre enfin 6tant d'un blanc 

 pur. Cet oiseau rappelle, par son Systeme et coloration, la femelle 

 du Myiagra oceamca des iles Carolines, mais differe beaucoup de 

 cette derniere par les proportions de son bec, de sa queue, etc. 

 Hab.: Res Mariannes. 



292. Piezorhynchus melanocephalus. 

 E. P. Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales. Vol 4. 1879. 

 p. 468. 



The whole of the head and throat black, with sligth blue- 

 black gloss; back, wings and tail, black; the three outer feathers 

 of the latter tipped with white; greater coverts of the wings white, 

 slightly margined at the tips withe black; lesser coverts white, mar- 

 gined with black; a few^ of the scapulars margined or tipped 

 laterally with white ; a broad white band across the nape, tipping 

 the black ear-coverts with white; uropygius and upper tail-coverts, 

 white; ehest and remainder of the under surface white; margins 

 of the wings below, black; under surface of the quills, blackish; 

 bill black; legs, lead-color. 



