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POMA REA UGIE NSI S, Ramsay

Ugi-Island Flycatcher.

Pomarea (Monarcha) ugiensis, Rams;
) ugrensis, Ramsay, Journ. Linn. Soc. Z <VI
} -HiInn. 90c., Zool. xvi. p. 1¢ ID): 3] ;
Bo tses, one / p. 128 (1881); Reichenow & Schalow,
Pomarea ugiensis, Tristram, Ibis, 1889. Pp. 136-142 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ Genov. xviii. p. 442 (1882)
Monarcha ugiensis, Salvad. Orn. Papuasia, ete. ii. p. 531 (1882) = 7

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Puts species was discovered by the Rey, George Brown in the island of Ugi, and Captain Richards

afterwards met with it in the same island, to which it is probably confined. It is a very laree species, and
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exceeds in size both P. castaneiventris of San Christoval and P. mora of the Society and Marquesas
Islands ; its uniform glossy black plumage, which is peculiar to both sexes, is also a striking characteristic
of the species. Count Salvadori would refer it to the genus Monarcha; but after carefully examining
the specimens in the British Museum, we believe that its place is in the genus Pomarea, where it has been
placed by Mr. Ramsay and Canon Tristram,

The following is a description of the typical specimen, which has been lent to us by Mr. Ramsay :—

Adult female (type of species). General colour above glossy blue-black ; lesser and median wing-coverts
black, edged with the same colour as the back; greater coverts, bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills
black, slightly and almost imperceptibly washed with blue-black on the outer web; tail-feathers glossy black,
with dusky cross markings under certain lights; lores and base of forehead velvety black ; sides of face
and ae coverts, cheeks and under surface of body glossy blue-black, duller black in the centre of the
abdomen ; “bill blue-black, whitish on the tips and margins of the mandibles; legs and feet black ”
(Brown). otal length 7 inches, culmen 0:8, wing 3°5, tail 3°15, tarsus 0°85. so 2
| In the Plate are given two representations of this species, of about the natural size, in different positions ;
the figures are drawn from the type specimen above described.

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