Order PASSERIFORMES . 
No. 480. 
Family MUSCIGAPIDJE. 
MASTERSORNIS CYANOLEUCUS. 
SATIN FLYCATCHER. 
(Plate 406.)* 
Platyrhynchos cyanoleucus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. XXVII., 
p. 11, Dec. 26th, 1818 : “ Timor” errore = New South Wales. 
Platyrhynchos cyanoleucus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., Vol. XXVII., p. 11, 1818. 
Myiagra nitida Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., App., p. 1, April 1838 : New South 
Wales ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1837, p. 142, Dec. 1838 ; id.. Birds Austr., 
pt. xxxi. (Vol. II., pi. 91), June 1st, 1848 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 
255, 1865 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. IV., p. 375, 1879 ; Ramsay, Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 6, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 18, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 121, 1901 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, 
Vol. I., p. 146, 1903 ; A. G. Campbell, Emu, Vol. IV., p. 119, 1905 (Tas.) ; 
McClymont, ib., Vol. V., p. 161, 1906 (Tas.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 66, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 21, 1910 ; Barnard, Emu, Vol. XI., 
p. 25, 1911. 
Myiagra ruhecula (errore) Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 182, 1878. 
Myiagra nitida nitida Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 322, 1912 ; id., List Birds 
Austr., p. 188, 1913 ; Belcher, Birds Geelong, p. 242, 1914. 
Myiagra nitida robinsoni Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 322, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
Cooktown, North Queensland ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 188, 1913. \ 
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Myiagra cyanoleuca Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., pt. 5, pp. 95-6, 1914. 
Myiagra cyanoleuca cyanoleuca Mathews, ib., p. 97. 
Myiagra cyanoleuca robinsoni Mathews, ib. 
Mastersornis cyanoleucus Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 78, 1917. 
Mastersornis cyanoleucus cyanoleucus Mathews, ib. 
Mastersornis cyanoleucus robinsoni Mathews, ib. 
Distribution. Eastern Australia, from North Queensland to Victoria, and Tasmania. 
Adult male. General colour glossy blue-black with steel-blue reflections including the 
head, back, wings, tail, sides of face, throat, and upper-breast ; inner webs of 
flight-quills dull black margined with white on the inner edges ; tail rather duller 
than the back, with obsolete cross-bars ; lores and base of fore-head velvety -black : 
abdomen, under tail-coverts, axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner margins 
of quills below dull white, the bases of the under wing-coverts black which show 
* The Plate is lettered Myiagra cyanoleuca. 
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