( 207 ) 



wLife, with onl;- a faint ting-e of bnfF ; lint iioKsibl3- this supposed ? may be a 

 young S , in which case the valne of these ditferences is of course doubtful. 



Note. — Dr. Fiiisch {Notes Lpi/rlen Mhs. xxii. pp. 201, 202) places my Iiummcriu 

 henrici (of. Nov. Zool. 1900. p. 14) from Dammer in the genus I'occilodn/as. 

 I cannot agree with this decision. I readily believe that it is desirable to diminish 

 the genera of Miiscicapidae very considerably ; but if this is done, and IJammeria 

 should be suppressed, it would far better be united with Muscicapula than with 

 Poecilodnjas, a genus which inhabits Australia and the Papuan Islands, but nut 

 the Sonth-West Islands. Moreover, the structure is different, the tail oi Poecilodiyas 

 being softer and shorter, the bill weaker. The sexes of Pammcrin differ considerably, 

 as iu Muscicaimld. 



56. Gerygone dorsalis fulvescens A. B. M. 



Gerygnne fidvcaceuH A. B. Meyer, hix 1884. pp. 2, 27 (Babber). 



The Gerijqonc from Babber has been separated by Meyer, I. c. Undoubtedly 

 all these forms — i.e. kiihniivom Dammer (which is cjnite different from both dorsalis 

 and fulvescens), fukesccns from Babber, sequens from Roma, and others — are 

 representative forms, and Dr. Finsch's surmise, from the comparisons of spirit- 

 specimens, that " Iriihni " as well as fideescei/s are found on Baliber, is erroneous. 

 Dr. Finsch's /dssereitsis (cf. Wotes Leijden ^^lls. xx. p. 133, Nov. Zool. 1904. p. 2(J.i) 

 is merely a synonym of fulvescens — at least I cannot separate our specimens from 

 Kisser, Moa, Letti and Babber. Mr. Kuhn sent six specimens from Babber. 



3 S ad., 1 c?, 1 ? aet. med., 1 ? juv., Tepa, September 190.J (Nos. 0s41, 0844, 

 6853,0875,6909,6976). "Iris burnt-sienna brown; bill black in adults, brown 

 in young ; feet slate-black." 



57. Ehipidura fiiscorufa Scl. 



Rhipkhtra fuscoriifa Sclater, Pi-oc. Zonl. Sue. Lnmhm, 1883. p. 197 (Tenimber). 



10 c?? ad., Tepa, August and September 19()5 (Nos. 0088, 0701, 0820, 0873, 

 0883, 6937, 6955, 6902, 6968, 6971). " Iris blackish ; bill black ; feet durk 

 brown or blackish." 



Dr. Finsch has already made known the lact, that the Babber form is the same 

 as the one from Tenimber (Timorlant). 



58. Rhipidura elegantula reichenowi Finsch. 



Hhipidura Reich etimri Finsch, Notes Lei/Ji n Museum sxii. p. 257 (Babber). 

 (Cf. Nm\ Zool. 1',I04. p. 20l"i, sub nomine Rh. elcgaiilnhi.) 



1 c? ad., Babber, 28. ix. 1905 (No. 6981). 



Dr. Finsch separated li/i. reicheyioici from eleeiantuki on account of its rusty- 

 cinnamon, instead of white, forehead. I ventured {I. c.) to unite reichenowi with 

 elegantula, because among our twenty-nine examples from Moa, Letti, Roma and 

 Dammer I fonnd two sjiecimens which agreed with Dr. Finsch's tyjie of veichcnowi. 

 Perhaps my conclusion has been too hasty, because the specimen received from 

 Kuhn has also a cinnamon forehead. If all specimens from Babber have a 

 rusty-cinnamon forehead, the Babber form would bo a subspecies, iu spite of the 

 occurrence of single indiviiluals on other islands which are similar in colour. 

 Only more skins from Babber can decide whether reichenowi is really separable 

 from elegantula or not. I have termed this form 1th. elegantula reichenoivi, but 

 this nomenclature may not be final : thej-e is little doubt that other forms are 



