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Birds of Celebes; Muscicapidae. 
Tliis, as Mr. Hartert points out, is a vory distinct species, belonging to 
Gould’s Piezorhynchus, “if that genus can be separated from Monarchd\ 
He adds that in this genus “the female always differs from the male”; but it 
would seem that the word “generally” should have been used here. Sharpe 
(1879) admits the genus Piezorhynchus, with 20 species in the Australian Region, 
said to be distinguishable from Monarcha by the velvety character of the plu- 
mage of the head; Salvador! (1881) unites it with Monarcha. 
GENUS MYIAGRA Yig. Horsf. 
Bill moderately long, very broad and flat, across the nostrils about twice 
as broad as deep, rictal bristles well developed; wings longer than tail, the 
second primary about equal to the secondaries in length; feet small, the middle 
toe and claw shorter than the tarsus. The genus’ is found from Australia to 
the Lesser Sunda Islands and the small islands to the south of (Celebes, the 
Moluccas, and many groups of Polynesia. 
A 138. MYIAGRA RUFIGULA Wall. 
Timor Broad-billed Flycatcher. 
Myiagra rufigula (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 485, 491; (2) Pelz., J. f. 0. 1875, 51; (3) 
Sharpe, Cat. B. 1879, lY, 382; (4) Sclat., P. Z. S. 1883, 55; (5) Biittik., Notes 
Leyden Mus. 1892, XIY, 197; (7) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 171, 585. 
Adult male. Above dark lead-grey; entire head above, nape, and ear-coverts blackish 
leaden, with a greenish gloss, on forehead next the hill paler; chin, throat, and 
chest ferruginous; remaining under parts white, washed with huff, more strongly at 
the sides and on the under wing -coverts; remiges and tail blackish, the latter 
bordered above with the lead -grey of the hack, the remiges with browner grey; 
paler below, especially where they rest upon the body ((Y, Bonerate Id., 20. HI. 96; 
P. & F. Sarasin). 
Female. Differs from the male in having the head, nape, and ear-coverts similarly glossed 
with greenish, hut less dark leaden — very little darker than the back, — the 
ferruginous of the chin, throat, and chest hghter. The outermost tail-feather whitish 
along the outer weh, and it and the next rectrix incline to brownish white distally. 
“Lis dark brown ; ■ hill black , mandible pale blue , with black tip ; legs and claws 
greyish black” — Everett 7 ($, Bonerate, 20. HI. 96; Sarasin Coll.). 
Measurements (4 specimens). Wing 66 — 69 mm; tail 63 — 66; tarsus c. 17.5; bill from 
nostril c. 8.5. 
Distribution. Timor and Samao (Wallace i, 5); Sumha (ten Kate 5, Doherty 7); 
Djampea and Kalao (Everett 7); Bonerate (P. & F. Sarasin). 
This Broad-billed Flycatcher was discovered first by Everett in December, 
1895, and then by the Sarasins in March, 1896, in the above mentioned small 
islands between Celebes and Flores, which are included in the Celebes Province 
in this work. The type came from Samao. 
