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Birds of Celebes; Muscicapidae. 
This, as Mr. Hartert points out, is a very distinct species, belonging to 
Gould’s genus 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 Piezorhynclms^ 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. 
138. MYIAGRA RUFIGULA Wall. 
Timor Broad-billed Flycatcher. 
Myiagra mfigula (1) Wall., P. Z. S. 1863, 485, 491; (2) Pelz., J. f. O. 1875, 51; (3) 
Sharpe, Oat. B. 1879, IV, 382; (4) Sclat., P. Z. 8. 1883, 55; (5) Biittik., Notes 
Leyden Mus. 1892, XIV, 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 buff, 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 ((^, Bonerate Id., 20. HI. 96: 
P. & F. Sarasin). 
Female. Differs from tlie male in having the head, nape, and ear-coverts s imil arly glossed 
with greenisli, but less dark leaden — very little darker than the hack, — the 
ferniginous of the chin, throat, and chest lighter. The outermost tail-feather whitish 
along the outer web, and it and the next rectrix incline to hrowmish white distally. 
“Iris dark brown; hill black, mandible pale blue, with black tip; legs and claws 
greyish black” — Everett 7 (C, Bonerate, 20. HI. 96: Sarasin Coll.). 
Measurements (4 specimens). Wing 66 — 69 mm; tail 63 — 66; tarsus c. 17.5; hill from 
nostril c. 8.5. 
Distribution. Timor and 8a, mao (Wallace 1, 3); Sumba (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 Saras ins in March, 1896, in the above mentioned small 
islands between Celebes and Flores, wEich are included in the Celebes Province 
in this work. The type came from Samao. 
