THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
(N.Q.) ; McLennan, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 223, 1917 (N.T.) ; Macgillivray, ib., VoL 
XVII., p. 198, 1918 (N.Q.) ; Campbell, ib., Vol. XVIII., p. 183, 1919 (N.T.). 
Myiagra grisea Pucheran, Voy. Pole Sud, Zool., Vol. III., p. 78, 1853 : Port Essington, 
Northern Territory. 
Myiagra rubecula concinna Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 222, 1905 ; Mathews, ib., 
Vol. XVIII., p. 321, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 188, 1913. 
Myiagra rubecula yorki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 321, Jan. 31st, 1912 : Cape 
York, Queensland; id., List Birds Austr., p. 187, 1913. 
Myiagra rubecula ringwoodi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 321, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
(Bingwood) Victoria ; id., Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 57, 1912 ; id., List 
Birds Austr., p. 187, 1913. 
Myiagra rubecula rubecula Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 321, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 187, 1913 ; Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XXV., p. 318, 1918. 
Myiagra rubecula melvillensis Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., pt. 2, p. 41, April 2nd, 
1912 : Melville Island, Northern Territory. 
Myiagra rubecula broomei Mathews, ib., pt. 4, p. 90, Sept. 18th, 1912 : Napier Broome Bay, 
North-west Australia ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 188, 1913. 
Mastersornis rubeculus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 78, 1917. 
Mastersornis rubeculus rubeculus Mathews, ib. 
Mastersornis rubeculus ringwoodi Mathews, ib. 
Mastersornis rubeculus yorki Mathews, ib. 
Mastersornis rubeculus concinnus Mathews, ib. 
Mastersornis rubeculus broomei Mathews, ib. 
Myiagra concinna concinna Rothschild and Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XXV., p. 318, 1918. 
Myiagra concinna yorki Rothschild and Hartert, ib. 
Distribution. East Australia from Cape York to Victoria ; Northern Territory and 
North-west Australia. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface including the top of the head, back, 
wings, and tail slate-blue ; inner webs of bastard-wing blackish-brown like the inner 
webs of the flight-quills which have the inner margins white ; inner webs of tail- 
feathers blackish-brown with obsolete cross-bars ; lores and base of fore-head 
velvety-black ; rictal bristles black and directed forward ; hinder face, sides of 
neck, chin, throat, and fore-neck darker than the back and inclining to steel-blue ; 
breast, abdomen, sides of body, under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts, 
and inner edges of quills below dull white ; under -surface of flight-quills and lower 
aspect of tail dark hair-brown ; thighs grey more or less intermixed with white. 
Bill dark slate-blue. Eyes dark brown ; feet black. Total length 138 mm. ; 
culmen 11, wing 75, tail 63, tarsus 16. Figured. (Upper fig.) Collected at Cape 
York, North Queensland, on the 9th of July, 1898, and is the type of Myiagra 
rubecula yorki. 
Adult female. General colour of the upper-surface slate-blue including the top of the head, 
back, upper tail-coverts, scapulars, and lesser upper wing-coverts ; crown of head 
glossy and rather paler than the back ; median and greater upper wing-coverts and 
innermost secondaries dark brown somewhat paler on the outer edges of the feathers ; 
bastard-wing, primary-coverts and flight-quills blackish-brown, white on the inner 
margins of the last ; tail dark hair-brown more or less fringed with slate-blue towards 
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