308 MUSCICAPID^. 



s\ Quills externally rufous; outer 

 tail - feathers light smoky 

 brown, paler on the outer web diluta, p. 3.32. 

 .s'. Under tail-coverts white with 

 black bases ; belly dark slate- 

 colour, like the breast, which 

 has the centre feathers broadly 



tipped with white ... alhilimbata, p. 315. 



)•'". Throat black ; chin and cheeks 

 white. 

 t^. Under sui-face of body whitish in 

 the centre ; flanks ashy brown ; 

 forehead black, like the throat ; 

 chest scaled, the feathers being j kubarii v 314 

 black, edged ^^^th white ...... \p,^,^Jt^;^_ gjj. 



ii^. Under surface of body bright 

 orange-rufous, uniform from the 



black throat downwards hi/perythra, p. 338. 



s'". Throat white, with a black jugular 

 patch ; forehead and eyebrow 

 white ; coverts tipped with tri- 

 angular spots of white; under 

 surface of body, from the throat 



downwai'ds, pure white albifrontata, p. 338. 



t"\ Throat black. 



r'. Tail-feathers tipped with white. 

 V'. Upper surface chocolate-brown, 

 the upper tail-coverts a little 

 more rufous ; sides of face and 

 throat black, uniform ; fore neck 

 and chest scaly, the feathers 

 black with broad white mar- 

 gins nielanol^ema, p. 313. 



m'. Upper sm-face dark bluish grey, 

 the upper tail-coverts black ; 

 cheeks, throat, and breast slaty 

 grey, spotted with white, 

 minutely on the two former, 

 on the iDreast with large ovate 



spots of white ^}er/a<rt, p. 328. 



tv^. Tail-feathers entirely black ; no 

 spots on the fore neck or sides 

 of neck ; upper surface and 

 throat jet-black tricolor, p. 339. 



1. Rhipidura flabellifera. 



Fan-tailed Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Si/n. ii. pt. 1, p. 340, pi, 49. 



Muscicapa flabellifera, Gm. S. N. i. p. 493 (e.r Lath.). 



Ehipidura flabellifera, Gray in Dieffenh. Trav. N. Zeal ii. App. p. I'JO ; 

 id. Voy. Erebus 8,- Terror, p. 8, pi. 6. lig. 2 ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 258 ; 

 Bp. Consp. i. p. 323 ; G^-aij, Ibis, 1862, p. 225 ; Peh. Beis. Novara, 

 Vog. p. 70 ; Ramsay, Ibis, 1865, p. 155 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 330, 

 no. 4953 ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1872, p. 164, et 1874, p. 190; Buller, B. 

 N. Zeal. p. 143 ; Sharpe, Voy. Erebus ^- Terror, Birds, App. p. 26. 



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