45. UHIPIDIIRA. 313 



8. Rhipidnra spilodera. 



Rhipidura spilodera, Gray, Ann. ^- May. N. H. ser. 4, v. p. 333 ; 

 id. in Brenfhley''s Cruise of the Curaqoa, pi. 9. 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above brown, the 

 upper tail-covcrts dark slaty ; crown of head slaty brown, varied 

 with obscure blackish tips to the feathers, especially over the eye 

 and on the forehead ; sides of face and feathers in front of and 

 below the eye blackish ; a distinct line of white from the base of 

 the nostrils to above the eye ; a second line of white from behind 

 the eye above the ear-coverts ; chin and cheeks dull white ; 

 remainder of throat and breast white, mottled with black centres to 

 the feathers, these mesial markings pointed and very distinct ; sides 

 of bi'east ashy grey, extending slightly upon the flanks, which are 

 fulvous-brown with ashy grey bases ; abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts light fulvous, the longest of the latter brown with white 

 tips ; thighs ashy brown ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy 

 brown with white tips ; wings above brown, the coverts slightly 

 washed with ashy grey ; tail blackish brown, tipped with white, 

 these white tips obsolete on the centre feathers, but gradually in- 

 creasing in extent towards the outer ones (especially on the inner 

 web), the outermost having also a pale outer web ; shafts of the 

 four centre feathers brown, of the next one on each side half brown 

 and half white, of the outer three feathers white ; " iris black " 

 (J. Brencliley). Total length 6"1 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 3'2, 

 tail 3*65, tarsus 0"9. 



Hah. Banks's group of islands. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Vanua Lava, Banks's Lslands, J. Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 

 Aug. 1865. (Type of species.) 



9. Rhipidura melanolaema. 



Muscylva pectoral, Ilombr. et Jacq. Vay. Pole Sud, Atlas, fl. 11. fig. 3. 

 Muscylva pectoralis, Jacq. et Pticher. Voy. Pole Sud, texte, iii. p. 76 



{nee Jerdon). 

 Rhipidura pectoralis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 258 ; id. List B. Trop. Isl. 



Pacific Ocean, p. 17 ; id. Handnl. B. i. p. 331, no. 4974. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above chocolate-brown, of 

 an ochreous cast, the upper tail-coverts more rufous ; wing-coverts 

 darker brown, washed with the same colour as the back, the least 

 and median series with small, nearly obsolete, white tijM ; quills 

 dark brown, externally margined with the same colour as the back ; 

 tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with white, increasing in extent 

 towards the outermost ; a narrow frontal line, lores, fore part of 

 cheeks, and ear-coverts black ; frontal feathers brown, tipped with 

 white, extending backwards, and forming a white spot over the fore 

 part of the eye ; hinder part of cheeks white, foinning a second 

 patch of white ; entire throat black ; chest scale-like, the feathers 

 being black, broadly margined with white ; remainder of under 

 surface below white, the flanks brown ; under tail-coverts white, 



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