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contrast to the slaty-grey back, while in palluUceps it is brownish grey, not much 

 ditt'erent from the back. In pallidiccps tlic abdomen also is paler, bnt other 

 differences are not ajjparent. The type of lUi. nt/'wentris pallidiceps is No. 5511, 

 ■Wetter, 10. ix. 190','. lilt. r. palluUceps seems to be restricted to Wetter, whence 

 Kiiliii sent : 



2 (?(?, 4 ??,!?, AVetter, September, October 1902. (Nos. 55H)— 5513, 5647, 

 5648, .5736, 5728.) 



" Iris blackish brown, bill and feet black." 



I have been able to compare ten specimens with thirteen from Timor, and I am 

 much obliged to Dr. Finsch for lending me some siJecimeus from the Leyden 

 Museum. 



f'5. Rhipidura setosa buttikoferi Sharpe. 



RJiijiiiliira hiill'd-ofcri Sharpe, Bull. B. 0. C. i. p. xviii. (1892 : Dammer Island). 

 Rhipidura linedii Biittikofer, I^'otes Let/den J/iis. xiv. p. 'J3 (18'J3: Letti). 

 Rhipidura hnttikoferi Finscb, Notes Leyden Mux. xxii. p. 256 (Letti). 



6 (? c?, 3 ? ? , Letti, November— December 1002. (Nos. 5987—5092, 6444, 0445.) 

 4 c? cJ,! ? , Moa, November— December liX)2. (Nos. 0112, 6113, 0162, 6382, 0383.) 



cJc?, 3 ? ?, 1 ?, Roma, July- August 1U(I3. (Nos. 5049—5053, 5233—5235 ; 

 two without numbers.) 



" Iris blackish brown, bill and feet black." 



Specimens from Dammer, Letti, Moa and Roma are not distingaishable. 



90. Rhipidura semicoUaris S. Miill. 



Rhijiidiirn xemicolkiris S. MiLller, A'<«/. Gesch. Xid. hid., Land- en Vulkenk., p. 184 (Timor) ; 

 Finsch, Azotes Leydm Mux. xxii. p. 257 (Wetter). 



4 cJ(?, 1 ?, Wetter, September, October 19U2. (Nos. 5556, 5557, 5723, 5724, 

 5842.) 



"Iris blackish brown, feet black, bill blackish, base of lower bill whitish." 



97. Rhipidura elegantula Sharpe. 



Rhipidura elegantula Sharpe, Nutes Leyden Mus. i. p. 23 (1878 : Letti) ; Finsch, up. ril. xxii. p. 257 

 (Letti). 



4 c? c?, 2 ? ? , Letti, November— December 1902. (Nos. 5993— 5995, 6440—6442.) 



3 J<J, 3 ¥?, Moa, November— December 1902. (Nos. 0111, 0155, 6161, 

 0379-0381.) 



" Iris blackish brown, bill and feet black." 



7 S ad., 5 cJ ? ad., (? ? jnv., Roma, July, August 1902. (Nos. 5044—5047, 

 5155 — 5159, 5230 — 5232 ; six without numbers.) 



1 have used binomials for these Rhipidurae, not because I am sure that they 

 are more than subspecies, bnt it requires more time than I can bestow on these 

 birds at present to work out their minute relntionship. No doubt several of these 

 forms must be subspecies of one species. 



Dr. Finsch has separated the Babber form under the name of liliipidtira 

 reichenowi {Notes Leyden Mus. xxii. p. 257. pi. IV. fig. 3), because the forehead 

 of the type was cinnamon, not white. He kindly sent me the type specimen, 

 the others, having been sent in spirits, being of not much value. I find, however, 

 that the forehead varies in the Roma specimens from cinnamon to creamy white— 

 the white is, in fact, never pure in eleyantula, bnt always of a distinct cream-colour. 



