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same birds woiiM sometimes be classed in Enpsnltna, sometimes in Poecilodnjas. 

 Even indging from colour alone the divisions were incorrect, as " Eopsiltria 

 georgiana" seems very near ^'Poecilodnjas" leucuia, and should certainly be classed 

 in the same division of the genus. 



Genus KHIFIDURA. 



lihiphhmi Vigors ami HursfieM, 7V.(».s. Linn. So: (Lond.) vol. xv. p. iVi. 182G. 



Type (by subs, desig.) : A'. Jabellifora (Gmiiiii). 



714. Rhipidura flabellifera alisteri. 



Rhi,Mura albis,:„i,aalistevi Mathews. Bull. Brit. On,. Clnh. vol. xxvii. p. 87. I'Jll : New South Wales. 



White-shafted Fantail. 



Mathews, Haiullist No. 476 (pars). 



Range : New South Wales. 



71. J. Rhipidura flabellifera victoriae subsp. n. 



Victorian Fantail. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 476 (pars). 



Intermediate between R. f. alisteri and R. f. albiscapa ; nearer the latter in 

 having the dark back, from which it is easily separable by its smaller size. 

 Type : Victoria, No. sr)47. 

 Range : Victoria. 



716. Rhipidura flabellifera albiscapa. 



Rhipidura olhixcaix, Gould, Fru-. Z.,.!. s.,.. ( /, /.) 1840. p, li:i ClMI ) : Tasmania. 



Synonyms : 



Rhipi.Ura mturata (not Salvadori) Sharps. Cal. Hir.h Brit. .Ifc. vol. iv. p. 311. 187;i : Tasmania. 



Rhipiilnra diemeimmx Sharpe. Ihi«, 187;i. p. Si'iH : Tasmania. 



RUi,,nl„ra .hnrpei Ramsay, Pr„: Linn So,: N.S.W. vol. iv. p. :il8. 1879: Tasmania. 



Dusky Fantail. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 478. 



Range : Tasmania. 



717. Rhipidura flabellifera whitei snbsp. n. 



South Australian Fantail. 



Mathews, Hoiidlist No. 476 (pars). 



Differs from R.f. alisteri in its larger bill a,n(l slightly (birkcr upper coloration. 



Type : South Australia, No. 1 7s3. 



Range : South Australia. 



718. Rhipidura flabellifera phasiana. 



niuindura phasinmi De Vis, Pro.-, h'.,,,. tioc. Quecndand, vol. i. p. 158. 1884: Norman River, 

 Kimberley, Queensland. 



Pheasant Fantail. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 477 (pars). 



Range : North Queensland. 



