45. RHIPIDVKA. 309 



Rhipidura flabellifoime, Hombr. etJ, Voy. Pole Sud, Atlas, pi. 11. fig. 4. 

 Muscicapa -sentilabrum, Forster, Icon. tned. G ; id. Descr, Anim. p. 86. 

 Rhipidura albiscapa, Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 150 {nee Gould). 



Adult male. Above ashy brown, with a slight olive-brown shade ; 

 the upper tail-coverts dark slate- colour ; crown of head, lores, and 

 sides of face dark slaty brown, with a broad white streak above the 

 eye ; wings brown, the median and greater coverts with small white 

 apical spots, the secondaries slightly shaded with ashy, the inner- 

 most narrowly edged with whitish ; two centre tail-feathers brown, 

 the rest of the feathers white on the inner web, brown on the outer, 

 the two outside feathers shaded with light brown on the inner web, 

 the outermost feathers white on both webs, shaded with brown on 

 the inner web, the shafts of all the feathers white ; cheeks and throat 

 dull white ; lower throat blackish, the feathers margined with light 

 ochre where they adjoin the fore neck ; rest of under surface of body 

 ochraceous buff ; under tail-coverts white ; thighs brown ; under 

 wing-coverts whitish, with ashy bases to the feathers ; " biU black ; 

 feet blackish brown ; iris black" (Bidler). Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0*4, wing 3'95, tail 3-8, tarsus 0"75. 



Obs. Two birds from the Bay of Islands at the north of North 

 Island, New Zealand, are paler than the rest of the birds in the 

 Museum, and diiler as much as Tasmanian Fantail Flycatchers do 

 from Australian. 



Young. Has the ashy brown of the back shaded with rufous ; the 

 wing-coverts tipped with pale rufous ; under surface of body tawny ; 

 sides of face and throat dusky ashy ; ej-ebrow tawny ; tail-feathers 

 more shaded with brown than in the adult. 



Hab. New Zealand. 



Colonial Museum. 

 Dr. Sinclair [P.]. 

 Capt. Stokes, R.N. [P.]. 



Purchased. 



Lieut. A. Smith [P]. 



Antarctic Expedition [C.]. 



2. Rhipidura bulgeri. 



Rhipidura albiscapa (nee Gould), Verr. et Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. de 

 Zool. 1860, p. 392 ; Marie, Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xxvii. p. .327. 

 Rhipidura humeri, Layard, Ibis, 1877, p. 361. 



Adult male. General colour above dull slaty brown, uniform on 

 the upper surface, the upper tail-coverts darker and more blackish 

 slate-colour; tail-feathers ashy brown, all with conspicuous white 

 shafts, the outer ones tipped and broadly edged with white along 

 their inner webs ; wing-coverts like the back, the greater series 

 minutely tipped with white ; quills brown, the inner secondaries 

 with an obsolete whitish edging ; loral plumes mottled with white 

 bases ; feathers in front of the eye and below it dusky blackish, as also 

 the ear-coverts ; above the fore part of the eye a white spot, and 



