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cinereous ; the wings and tail brown ; the breast rufous ; the throat 

 white; in other respects like the male" (Peale). 



Hab. — Feejee Islands. Specimen in Nat. Mus. Washington City'. 



This little-known bird is strictly congeneric with Myiagra nitlda 

 and ruhecula, Gould, and other species of Australia. The figure in the 

 Zoological Atlas of the Voyage of the Astrolabe, cited above, repre- 

 sents it as smaller than the specimen now before us, which may be 

 attributed either to such being the fact in the different locality at 

 which the specimen figured was obtained, or to a difl'erence merely in 

 the preparation of the skin. All the characters are, however, well 

 represented in the plate to which we have reference. 



Of this handsome species we have no account, other than a label 

 stating the locality as above given. 



2. Myiagra rubecula [Latham). 



Todus ruhecula, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. 32 (1801). 

 Pla/i/rhi/uchus ruJicolUs aud ruhecula, ViElLL. 



Myiagra ruhecula ides, ViGORS & HoRSF. Traus. Linn. Soc. London, XV, p. 253, 

 Mi/iaijva latirostris, GouLD, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1840, p. 172. 

 Flatijrhijnchus alhiventris, Peale, Zool. Exp. Exp. Vincennes, Birds, p. 102 (1st ed, 

 1848),* 



Mijiagra nitida, GouLD, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 142 ? 



Gould, B. of Aust. ir, Plate XCII ; ibid. Plate XCI ? 



Of this species, very accurately and handsomely figured by Mr. 

 Gould, as above cited, specimens from the Samoan Islands cannot be 



* "Form more slender than P. Vanikoren&is ; bill longer; all the lower parts from 

 the breast down, white ; head and neck black ; lesser wing-coverts and rump, dark ash- 

 color; wings and tail black; first quill less than half the length of the fourth, fourth 

 quill longest; under coverts of the wings margined with white; throat and breast bright 

 rufous; bill light-blue; legs black; irides brown. 



"Total length, five and seven-eighths inches; extent of wings, eight and five-eighths 

 inches; wing, from the carpal joint, two and nine-tenths inches; tail, two and four- 

 tenths inches ; tarsi, thirteen-twentieths of an inch ; middle toe, including the nail, eleven- 

 twentieths of an inch; nail, three-twentieths of an inch; hind toe, nine-twentieths of an 

 inch; nail, two-tenths of an inch; bill, half an inch; to the corners of the mouth, seven- 

 tcnths of an inch; width, three-tenths of an inch." (Peale, as above.) 



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