314 iirscicAPiDJE. 



with black bases ; under \viug-covert8 and axillaries white, with 

 brown bases ; quills brown below, buffy whitish along the edge of 

 the inner web. Total length 5-9 inches, culmen Oo, wing 2-8, tail 

 3-3, tarsus OS. (J/hs. Paris.) 



Hah. Island of MalikoUo or Vanikoro, New Hebrides. 



10. RMpidura kuharii. 



Rhipidura kubaiyi, Finsch, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 644 ; id. Jmrn. 3Ius. 

 Godeffr. 1876 (Heft xii.) p. 29, pi. 2. fig. 2 ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 770. 



Adult male. General colour above smoky brown, the crown uni- 

 form with the back, the upper tail-coverts darker brown ; wings 

 uniform dark brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with white, 

 increasing in extent towards the outermost ; feathers in front of and 

 below the eye blackish, the ear-coverts browner ; from the base of 

 the bill to above the eye a broad white streak ; throat black, the 

 chin and a moustachial streak white ; fore neck and chest mottled, 

 the feathers being black in the centre, with distinct white margins : 

 sides of breast dark ashy ; centre of body white, the sides brown, 

 washed wdth ashy ; thighs brown ; under tail-coverts blackish, 

 broadly tipped with white ; under wing-coverts dark ashy brown, 

 with slight edgings of white ; quills dark brown below, edged with 

 ashy whitish along the inner webs : " bill and feet black " (Kuhary). 

 Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-7, tail 3-35, tarsus 0-75. 



Hah. Ponape Island. 



a. S ad, sk, Ponap^ (Kvhary). Godeffroy Museum. 



11. Rhipidura personata. 



Rhipidura persouata, Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. pp. 43, 72. 

 Rhipidura, sp., Layard, Ibis, 1876, p. 392. 



Adult. AU the upper surface brown, of a duller and darker tint 

 on the head and neck ; upper tail-coverts and tail blackish brown, 

 the outermost feathers on each side of the tail margined with white, 

 narrowly at the tip, and becoming only a very narrow line of white 

 margining the inner webs, the shafts of these feathers below white, 

 the next two on either side having only a very small white mark at 

 the apex ; wings above broAvn, the inner secondaries margined on 

 the outer webs with dull light buff; under wing-coverts brown, 

 margined with silvery white ; head and neck dark brown ; a line of 

 white extends from the forehead over the eye to the upper part of 

 the ear-coverts ; lores, ear-coverts, and a narrow line round the eye 

 blackish brown ; from the posterior angle of the eye, over the ear- 

 coverts, a short line of white ; throat and sides of the neck below 

 white ; from the centre of the throat, extending and widening out 

 on the chest, is a broad, somewhat triangular patch of black ; the 

 lower part of the chest, the breast, and remainder of the under 

 surface of the body and under tail-coverts white; the sides and 

 flanks tinged with olive-brown, more extensively in some than in 



