Order PASSEEES.] [Fam. SYLYIID^E. 



MYIOMOIEA TOITOL 



(PIED TIT.) 



Muscicapa toitoi, Garnot, Voy. Coq. i. p. 590, t. xv. fig. 3 (1826). 

 Miro toitoi, Gray, in Dieff. Trav. ii., App. p. 191 (1843). 

 Petroica toitoi, Gray, Voy. Ereb. and Terror, Birds, p. 6 (1844). 

 Myiomoira toitoi, Reich. Syst. Av. Taf. lxvii. (1850). 

 Muscicapa albopectus, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7465. 



Native names. 

 Miromiro, Komiromiro, and Ngirungiru. 



6 supra sericeo-niger : macula frontali conspicua alba, : tectricibus alarum plerumque nigris, mediauis brunne- 

 scentibus : rernigibus brunneis, primariis interioribus ad basin albo maculatis, secundariis magis con- 

 spicue notatis, plagam albam exhibentibus : cauda, nigra, rectricibus tribus exterioribus fere omnino 

 albis, basi pogonii interni et apice pogonii externi exceptis nigris : facie laterali, gutture toto et pectore 

 superiore nigris, gula vix brunnescente : corpore reliquo subtus albo, basi plumarum nigricante : rostro 

 et pedibus nigricanti-bruoncis : plantis pedum fiavicantibus : iride nigra. 



2 mari dissimilis : brunnea, subtus albida, hypochondriis brunnescente lavatis : loris et facie laterali brunneis, 

 fulvescente variis. 



Adult male. Head, neck all round, and all the upper parts black; frontal spot, at the base of the upper 

 mandible, white ; breast and underparts pure white, the black of the fore neck having a sharply defined 

 lower edge ; wing-feathers crossed near their base by an angular patch of white, which is narrow and 

 interrupted on the primaries, broad and continuous on the secondaries ; tail black, the three outer 

 feathers on each side crossed obliquely upwards by a broad bar of white. Irides black ; bill and tarsi 

 blackish brown ; toes paler, yellow on their inner surface. Total length 5 inches ; wing, from flexure, 3 ; 

 tail 225 ; bill, along the ridge - 4, along the edge of the lower mandible '5 ; tarsus "75 ; middle toe and 

 claw "8 ; hind toe and claw *65. 



Adult female. Upper surface smoky brown, with a minute frontal spot of white ; throat, fore neck, and all 

 the underparts greyish white, more or less clouded with dull smoky brown ; wing-feathers blackish 

 brown, a bar across the base of the secondaries and some indistinct marks on the webs of the outer pri- 

 maries fulvous white ; tail black, the three outer feathers on each side barred obliquely with white, as 

 in the male. 



Young. In the young male the colours are much duller and browner, and the sharply defined pectoral line 

 is wanting ; but the plumage is sufficiently different from that of the female to distinguish the sexes. 



Obs. The sexes do not present any perceptible difference in size. 



