Genus— MASTERS ORNIS. 
Mastersoknis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., 
pt. 4, p. 78, July 21, 1917. Type (by original 
designation) ... ... ... ... ... Todus rubecula Latham- 
Myiagra Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. 
(Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 250, Feb. 17, 1827. 
Type (by subsequent designation Gray, p. 32, 
1840) ... ... ... ... ... ... M. rubeculoides = 
Todus rubecula Latham. 
Not — 
Myagrus Boie, Isis, 1826, heft x., col. 973, Oct. =Myiagrus. Cf . Wied Beitr. Naturg. Brasil, Bd. III., 
p. 1045, 1831. 
The generic name I use was introduced by me to replace the familiar Myiagra 
which proved to be preoccupied. 
Small “ Muscicapine ” birds with broad flattened bills, long rounded wings, 
long square tail, and small legs and feet. 
The bill is comparatively long for the group, broad and flattened, the 
culmen keeled, the tip with a decurved hook ; the nostrils circular placed at 
base of culmen, the numerous frontal bristles almost hiding them ; the under 
mandible is very flattened and rictal bristles are numerous and well developed- 
The wing is long and rounded with the first primary short, the second 
more than twice its length, the third to sixth forming the tip, the fourth some- 
times the longest, the third subequal with the fifth and the sixth and seventh 
little less, the eighth being equal to the second. 
The tail is long and square, about as long as the wing. ' The feet are small, 
the tarsus short and obscurely scutellate, the toes small and weak, the hind-toe 
and claw long. 
The coloration of the sexes is different in the typical form, the male with 
a grey throat, and metallic sheen above, the female showing a pale red throat 
and little sheen on the upper -surface. 
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