INSESSORES. 



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Supra et gutiure f mco-ni(jra, pectore et ahdomine pJioeniceis, ahdomine 

 imo cum crissis alhis. Long. ioL 31 pollices. 



Form. — Typical, small ; wing with the third and fourth quills longest. 



Dimensions (of skin). — Total length about three and three-fourths 

 inches ; wing, two and a half inches ; tail, one and a half inches. 



Colors. — Small frontal spot, white. Throat, head above, and entire 

 other upper parts, brownish-black ; terminal half of the greater coverts 

 of the wing white, forming a wide bar running obliquely across the 

 wing. Breast and abdomen scarlet, paler on the latter. Flanks, ven- 

 tral region, and under coverts of the tail, white ; quills and tail-feathers 

 brownish-black, the two external on each side of the latter marked 

 longitudinally with white ; bill dark ; tarsi light. 



Hab. — Samoan Islands. Specimen in Nat. Mus. Washington City. 



A small species much resembling in colors and general characters 

 Petroica multicolor (which appears to be the same as P. erythrogastra, 

 Gould, B. of Aust. Ill, Plate 4). It is, however, smaller, and in the 

 specimen now described, the white space on the forehead is much more 

 limited than in any specimen of P. multicolor that has come under our 

 observation. 



This species is noticed by the naturalists of the Expedition as hav- 

 ing been observed only at the Samoan Islands. It is one of the hand- 

 somest as well as smallest of its genus. 



The present bird, according to Mr. Peale, " is not uncommon at the 

 Samoan Islands, particularly at Upolu, where it frequents the under- 

 growth in thick shady forests, exhibiting most of the habits of fly- 

 catchers." 



4. Genus LEUCOCERCA, Swainson, Bonap. Consp. Av. p. 323. 

 1. Leucocerca Lessoni {Gray). 



RJiipidura Lessoni, Gray, Genera of Birds, I, p. 258 (1846). 



Monarclia cinerea, Peale, Zool. Exp. Exp. Vincennes, Birds, p. 101 (1st ed. 1848).* 



* " Head, back, and wings cinereous, beneath lighter ; brow, eyelids, throat, and 



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