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from the New Hebrides. 
This race of white-shafted Fantail Flycatchers appears to 
be intermediate between R. brenchleyi and R. saturata. It 
has a bright ochraceous under surface like the latter, and 
the mark on the throat is black, but the inner edge of the 
tail-feathers has a much broader margin of wdiite, so that 
the Erromangan bird appears to be a distinct form like 
R. brenchleyi. 
Myiagra melanura Gray; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iv. 
p. 379 (1879). 
M. caledonica melanura Wiglesw. t. c. p. 23. 
No. 10. $ ad. Sandwich Bay, Mallicollo, May 13,1899.— 
Feet dark plumbeous; iris dark with golden centre. 
Common. 
No. 25. B ad. Port Sandwich, Mallicollo, May 17,1899.-— 
Bill plumbeous, dark at tip. 
No. 30. ad. Island of Rano, Mallicollo, May 17, 
1899. 
Myiagra tannaensis Tristr. Ibis, 1879, p. 192. 
M. perspicillata tannaensis Wiglesw. t. c. p. 23. 
No. 32. Ad. Foreland Bay, Epi. Bill lead-colour, darker 
at tip ; feet lead-colour ; iris dark. 
Nos. 43, 46. $ Ad. Polenia Bay, Erromanga, May 26, 
1899. 
Petrceca ambrynensis, sp. nor. 
P. similis P. pusillee, gutture nigerrimo, sed secundariis 
intimis nigris, minime albido limbatis distinguenda. 
Long. tot. 4*3 poll.; culm. 0*55 ; alae 2*4 ; caudae 2*7 ; 
tarsi 0*75. 
No. 99. B ad. No. 100. juv. Dip Point, Ambryn Isl., 
Aug. 15, 1899.—Bill and feet black; iris dark. 
The adult male has the black of the upper parts and of 
the throat intense like P. pusilla of Samoa and the Fiji 
Islands, and does not resemble P. similis from Aneiteum 
and Tanna, as one would have expected. In fact the 
Ambryn bird appears to be intermediate between the two 
forms. 
