45. KniPibiTKA. 315 



others ; bill black, lower mandible whitish ; legs and feet dark lead- 

 bliie; iris light brown. Total length 6-2 inches ; wing 3- 2 : tail 

 3- 75 ; tarsus 0-4 ; bill from gajje 0-55, from forehead 0-4, from 

 nostril 0'3. (Eamsai/.) 



The sexes are alike in plumage, but the female appears to have a 

 greater extent of olive-brown on the flanks and sides. 



Ilab. Island of Kandavu, Fiji group *. 



12. EMpidora albilimbata. 



Rhipidura albolimbata, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. vi. p. 312, x. 

 p. l;3o. 



Adult female (Atam ; type of species). General colour above dark 

 slate-colour, the head blackish ; sides of face also black ; from the 

 ba-se of the bill a broad white eyebrow running above the ear- 

 coverts, and behind the eye a little narrow streak of white ; least 

 wing-coverts like the back ; remainder of the coverts brownish 

 black, tipped with a small spot of white, smaller on the median 

 than on the greater coverts ; quiUs brownish black ; tail black, the 

 two outer feathers tipped with Avhite, the third with a tiny white 

 spot at the tip ; throat white ; chest black ; remainder of under 

 surface dark slaty grey, the feathers in the centre of the breast 

 tipped broadly with white, forming a conspicuous breast-patch ; 

 under tail-coverta white, with dusky bases : under wing-coverts 

 white, with dusky brown bases ; quills ashy blackish below, edged 

 with whity brown along the inner web. Total length o"5 inches, 

 culmen 0*4, wing 2-8, tail 3*05, tarsus 0'6. {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Hah. North-western New Guinea : Atam. 



13. Rhipidura nebulosa. 



Rhipidura nebulo.^a, Peale, U.S. Rvpl. Exp. p. 199, pi. 27. fig. 1 ; 

 Ilartl Arch. f. Xatur//. 1852. p. 101 ; Cass. U.S. Rvpl. Exp. p. ].51, 

 pi. 9. fig. 2 ; 'Crrai/, List B. Trap. Isl. Pacif. Ocean, p. 17 ; Finsch 

 4" Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. p. 86; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 3.31, 

 no. 4973; Finsch 8,- Hartl. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 23; Whitmee, Ibis, 

 ]87o, p. 409 ; Laijard, P. Z. S. 1876, p. 493. 



Rhipidura fuscescens. Cab. 1:^ Eeichen. J. f. O. 1876, p. 319; Sakad. 

 P. Z. S. 1877, p. 194. 



Adult. Above dark ashy grey, the head and the wing-coverts 

 uniform with the back : greater coverts and quiUs brown, washed 

 with ashy grey on the secondaries ; tail dark brown, with a slight 

 shade of ashy ; the two centre tail-feathers with brown shafts, all 

 the others with white shafts and tipped with white, increasing in 

 extent towards the outermost, and extending a little way up the 

 inner web ; sides of the face dark ashy, with an obscure spot of 



* The exact locality is not stated by Mr. Ramsay ; but Mr. Layard {I. c.) 

 states that anew Rhipidura w.os in j\Ir. Ratniiay'.s possession from Kandaru, and 

 that is doubtless the present species. 



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