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Show 1881.] MR. R. BOWDLER SHARPE ON NEW FLYCATCHERS. 789 tint, but the blue much lighter, pale, and of a silvery cobalt, instead of the deep cobalt-blue of M. cyaneus. The mantle is also smaller and more circumscribed. HaB. Moreton Bay (F. Strange). Gould Coll. RHIPIDURA MACGILLIVRAYI, sp. n. (Plate LXVII.) Adult male. General colour above brown, the head dull ashy grey ; least wing-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky brown, tipped with white, forming a double band across the wing; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, the secondaries externally margined with fulvous, the innermost with white; upper tail-coverts blackish ; tail-feathers blackish, all but the centre ones with white shafts and very narrowly tipped with ashy whitish, which extends a little way down the end of the inner webs in the outermost feathers, the last tail-feather being whitish on the outer web, brown towards the end; lores dusky blackish ; ear-coverts and feathers below the eye ashy brown ; above the lores a spot of dull white, and changing to ochreous buff above the eye ; chin and fore part of cheeks dull white, the hinder cheeks ochraceous buff like the under surface of the body, becoming deeper on the thighs and lighter on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ochraceous buff; quids dusky brown below, light ashy along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6*2 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 2*9, tail 3*5, tarsus 0*7- Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 6*2 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 2*7, tail 3*4, tarsus 0*7. HaB. Lord Howe's Island, Sept. 13, 1853 (J. Macgillivray). Gould collection. Examples of this Flycatcher were found in a box of birds collected during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Herald' which contained several other rarities from Lord Howe's Island. The present species (which I dedicate to the memory of John Macgillivray, who collected the specimens) is a very distinct one, differing at once from B. alBiscapa and tbe other allied species by the conspicuous ochreous-buff spot above the eye, this being white in the other Bhipidura? enumerated by me (/. c). SlPHIA OBSCURA, Sp. n. Adult. General colour above olive greenish, inclining to lighter olive on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; quills light olive-brown, edged with the same brighter olive as the rump ; wing-coverts dark olive-°reen like the back ; quills dusky brown, externally olive-green, the primaries edged with brighter olive ; crown dark slaty grey, with a slight wash of oli\e-green ; lores dusky blackish, surmounted by a white streak from above the ear-coverts to the base of the bill; ear-coverts dusky ash-brown with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and under surface of body isabelline-brown, a little whiter on the throat and centre of the breast ; thighs deeper and more tawny ; under wing-coverts and axillaries olive, the latter with a tinge of brighter olive-yellow ; quills dusky brown below, fulvescent along the edge of the |