Species of Flycatcher, &c. 389 
Curlew (Numenius femoralis, Peale) afew days ago at “ Cocoa- 
nut Point,’ m Sandalwood bay, adds a most interesting 
novelty to our list. He saw a pair of them, but only suc- 
ceeded in securing the female. It must be very scarce, as 
we have kept a special leok-out for it, but until this moment 
without effect. . 
During his visit there he also procured the very interesting 
new Flycatcher I am about to describe, and established the 
distinctness of Myzolestes buaensis, which is just intermediate 
between M. vitiensis, Hartl., and M. macrorhyncha, nob., and 
of Piilotis similis, nob., from P. carunculata, Gmel. He also 
procured specimens of both sexes of my new Blackbird (Me- 
rula vitiensis) in splendid plumage. 
MytaGRra CASTANEIGULARIs, Layard, sp. nov. 
Male. Upper parts dark ashy blue; crest on head short, 
azure ; underparts, chin, throat, and upper portion of chest 
bright clear chestnut ; thence to the vent white; tail-fea- 
thers partly white and partly of the colour of the back, 
the extended pair being white from the tip to two thirds of 
their length, the others less and less white, until the centre 
pair have the merest white edge to the tip; bill rich orange; 
legs ash-coloured ; iris dark brown. Length 5" 6", wing 3”, 
tail 2" 10", bill 10”, tarse 10”. 
Female rusty grey above; top of head dark ashy blue; 
below coloured like the male, but less brilliantly. 
Found in the high tree-forest at Kandi (Bua) feeding on 
insects; in habits and note resembling its ally M. azureo- 
capilla, Layard. 3 
This elegant Flycatcher closely resembles its prototype 
M. azureocapilla, from Taviuni (which is separated from 
Vanua Levu by a narrow strait), and is another illustration 
of the variation of species found in these islands. ‘The upper 
parts are precisely similar (when the tail is closed, so that 
the white ends of the feathers do not show), with the exception 
of the crest, which, though similarly coloured, is shorter. On 
the underparts the dark chestnut of the throat is changed into 
a singularly bright chestnut; and the white of the abdomen, 
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