. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 238 MuscicAi'iD-i;. 215. METABOLUS. ,„ Type. Metabulus, Bp. (J. R. xxxviii. p. UoU (18o4) M. Head and foot of Mctaholiis rugensis. Range. Confined to the Caroline group of islands. 1. Metabolus rugensis. Drymophile de Rouk, Ilomhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 13. Muscicapa rugensis, Humhr. tt Jacq. Ann. Set. Nat. (2) xvi. p. 312. Monarcha rugeusis, IIa7il. Arch. f. Naturq. 1852, p. 133 ; id, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 829; Grai/, Hund-l. B. i. p. 321, no. 4809. Collurieiucla rugensis, Jacq. et Pucher. Vo}/. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 02. Me
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 238 MuscicAi'iD-i;. 215. METABOLUS. ,„ Type. Metabulus, Bp. (J. R. xxxviii. p. UoU (18o4) M. Head and foot of Mctaholiis rugensis. Range. Confined to the Caroline group of islands. 1. Metabolus rugensis. Drymophile de Rouk, Ilomhr. et Jacq. Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 13. Muscicapa rugensis, Humhr. tt Jacq. Ann. Set. Nat. (2) xvi. p. 312. Monarcha rugeusis, IIa7il. Arch. f. Naturq. 1852, p. 133 ; id, P. Z. S. 1807, p. 829; Grai/, Hund-l. B. i. p. 321, no. 4809. Collurieiucla rugensis, Jacq. et Pucher. Vo}/. Pole Sud, Zool. iii. p. 02. Metabolus rugensis, Bp. C. P. xxxviii. p. 050. Monarcha (Metabolus) rugensis. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Id. Pacific Ocean, p. 19. Aihdt male. General colour above and below pure white, the quills with brown shafts and shaded with brown towards their tips; shafts of tail-feathers brown towards the bases ; forehead, lores, feathers in front of the eye reaching above and below the anterior part of the latter, entire cheeks, and throat glossy steel-black; " bill black, with a white patch for half the length of the upper mandible ; feet black ; iris black ; eye bordered with black in front and below " (Humbron ct Jacquinoi). Total length 7*8 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4, tail 3-35, tarsus 1-05. Adult female. Upper parts rufous, including the upper part of the head, which is a little clearer; throat black ; thorax and a collar separating the hinder part of the head from the upper part of the back black, both spotted with rufous; abdomen mixed with rufous, black, and white ; some of the flank-plumes white at the tips ; the white colour, on the contrary, occupies nearly the whole of the under tail-coverts, which are tipped with black; wing by no means uniform in its coloration ; primaries black externally, rufous on the outer web; the secondaries almost entirely black, bordered all round with rufous, the intermediate ones being pale blackish along each side of the shaft, rufous ever
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