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Show 1871.] ON BIRDS FROM THE PACIFIC ISLANDS. 29 feathers, which are margined with pale fulvous white ; shafts of the remiges and rectrices dark. Bill hornish black ; feet dark plumbeous. Another female shows the underparts much lighter, and the chin variegated with some pure white feathers. A third female is lighter above and beneath; the underparts are whitish fulvous, the same as the tail-feathers ; the remiges and their coverts appear nearly uniform dark brown, having the fulvous outer margins very narrow and indistinct. Bill black, base of mandible yellow. alas, rectr. int. rectr. ext. rostr. tars. dig. med. c. of" 2"ll'"-3"2'" 2"4'"-2"5'" 2"-2" 1'" 5!-6'" 9-9!'" 6"' (d, 3 spec.) - 2 10 -3 1 2 3 -2 5 2 0 6 9! 6-6! ($,3 spec.) This unquestionably new species is typical. The totally different coloured female, as is usual in the members of this genus, resembles very much the female of Monarches niger (Muscicapa lutea, Gml.), but may be distinguished at once by its much smaller size. Of the habits of this bird no notice is given by Mr. Garrett, who discovered it. The species is represented by ill. niger in the Societies and Marquesas archipelagos. 2. APLONIS CINERASCENS, sp. nov. Fusco-cinerascens ; pileo pure fusco, loris holosericeo-fuscis : subtus distinctius grisescens ; uropygii plumis et supracaudalibus fuscis, apice late cinerascentibus ; remigibus et rectricibus fuscis; crisso et subcaudalibus sordide albidis; subalaribus pallide fusco-cinerascentibus ; rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, circa 7!", rostr. a fr. 9'", al. 4" 6"', caud. 2" 6'", tars. 13'". Adult. Grey-brown; underparts paler and more decided grey, having the feathers at the end margined with grey; the feathers on the rump and upper tail-coverts also with greyish margins, which on the upper tail-coverts are nearly whitish, but not so distinctly marked as on the underside ; head decided brown, with a slight coppery glitter; vent and under tail-coverts dirty white ; under wing-coverts pale greyish brown, with whitish margins ; remiges dark brown, on the margin of the inner webs paler; the inner secondaries with a very narrow pale margin along the outer vane, forming an indistinct pale stripe; tail-feathers dark brown ; shafts of the remiges and rectrices blackish, pale from beneath ; feathers of the mantle with very narrow pale shafts, which also are visible on the feathers of the breast. Bill and feet hornish black. " Irides dark slate ; bill, legs, and feet light bluish slate." (Garrett.) Four other specimens agree with the description above; in some the grey end-margins on the breast, rump, and upper tail-coverts are so indistinct as to be nearly wanting; and thus the whole bird appears to be of a more uniform brown. Lon_ tota. ala*. caud. rostr. tars. dig. med. c. 71" 4" 3"'-4" 8'" 2" 6"'-2" 8'" 9-9!'" 13-14'" 9-9!'" (:> specim.) |
