MYIAGRA FERROCYANEA, Ramsay.
Purple-backed Flycatcher.
S0C- H S' 1 M P' 78 A“ ' ■ B G«r. xir. p. 508 (1879).—Id. Ibis, 1880, p. 129.—Id. Om. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 79 (1881) iii d 532 nsRM
Myayra R ^ P r o p Lmp. S„c. N. S. W. ivgf 78 (1879).-Salvad. Ann. Mas! C h Genov xiv. p. 508
1880, p. 129.—Id. Orn. Papuasia, etc. ii. p. 79 (1881).
, u l,urPie UdCK- m e remale was described by Mr. Rarasav as a dUMrw r h
although he appears to have entertained doubts at the time whether it might not be the h ' i f d ’<■ u ,
throated male. W e have no hesitation in adopting the latter view a h ! f h d ° f *
would be quite possible to have two sp e c ie s, as dissimilar as the s ix e s o f the' present'bfrd0 Z g s i d e T ^ d
in the same island. Where a black-throafpd ,nai0 i living side by sidt
believe that the latter will be found to be the female a n d Z t t T h T ° " g W' th- a . I'ed'thr0‘,ted bird> m
are red- or white-throated. The nearest approach 'to the Colorado“ “ of"Z Z l e i o f ^ f r r o c T '
distinguishes' Z T “ * ° fTr,Stram! b“‘ berC the rafous on the <=W» «»d «"der surface o f body at on“
T h e following descriptions are taken from the original specimens len t to us by Mr. Ramsay -
M u l t male ( t y Ve o f M y ,a g r a f en o c y am a .T & m M j) . General colour above deep purplish the’head which i.
much crested, bemg more o f a deep steel-blue colour; wing-coverts purple hke Z Z k h t t a r Z "
pnmary-coverts, and qmlls blackish hrown, narrowly edged with blue I ,l i t , . ■, , f S '
not so purple as the back ; tail-feathers blue — H i B B “Pper ta,I-c0''erts H B |
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white, faintly shaded with fulvous on the fore neck • lower H H I I B B i S“r&Ce °f b°dj'
xv • I i g 6 inches> culmen 0 -5 5 , wing 2 55, tail 2-45 tarsus U P ?
2 H B H Itwo sexes of life'andare fro" B[R. B. S.]