45. RHIPIDUKA. 317 



plumes above the eye ; wings brownish black ; tail deep black ; 

 under wing-coverts blackish, with broad white edges ; quills dusky 

 brown below, lighter brown along the edge of the inner web. Total 

 length 6*2 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-05, tail 3'5, tarsus (>85. 

 {Mas. Genov.) 



Adult female {h-vidik Mountaiffs; B.hrac7i)/rhi/ncha,HchL). General 

 colour above bright cinnamon, the head browner ; lores, eyebrow, 

 sides of face, and ear-coverts deep cinnamon ; wing-coverts and 

 (liiills blackish brown, all the feathers edged with deep cinnamon ; 

 four centre tail-feathers black, the next one on each side extemaU}' 

 cinnamon, internally black, the three outer feathers bright cinna- 

 mon ; entire under surface of body cinnamon-rufous, a little duller 

 than the back, and more fulvous on the chin and throat ; under wing- 

 coverts light cinnamon, as also the inner edges of the quiUs, which 

 are dusky blackish below. Total length 6"3 inches, culmen 0'45, 

 wing 2-95, tail 3*7, tarsus 0*7. {Mus. Civic. Genov.). 



Hah. North-western New Guinea. 



IG. Ehipidura albicollis. 



Platyrhynchos albicollis, Vieill. N. Diet, d'lltst. Nat. xxvii. p. 13. 

 Muscicapa (Muscylva) albogularis, Less, in Belang. Voy., Zool. p. 264 ; 



Pihcher. Arch. Mus. vii. p. 372. 

 Rhipidura fuscoventris, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 117 ; Jerd. HI Ind. 



Om. text to pi. ii ; Bli/t/i, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 935, xv. p. 290 : id. 



Cat. B. Mm. A. S. B. p. 20G ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 259 ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 324 ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. ^-c. Nepal Coll. Hodqs. p. 93 ; Jard. 



Contr. Om. 1862, p. 92 ; Horsf. Sf Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. 



i. p. 145 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 451 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 331, no. 



4984 ; Cock ^- Marsh. Sir. F. 1873, p. 352 ; Ball, Sir. F. 1874, 



p. 404; Brooks, Sfr. F. 1875, p. 235. 

 lihipidura albigula, Ilodys. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 84. 

 Muscicapa (Rhipidura) sannio, Sundev. Ann. N. H. xviii. p. 174. 

 Leucocerca fuscoventris, Hume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 200. 

 Leucoceica albicollis, Hume, Str. F. 1874, p. 475, et 1875, p. 103; 



Blyth ^- Walden, B. Burm. p. 132. 



Adult male. General colour above smoky black, the crown, lores, 

 sides of face, and chin deep black : over the eye a white superciliary 

 streak ; wings browner than the back, the coverts rather more 

 smoky black like the back ; two centre tail-feathers black, the rest 

 broadly tipped with white, before which is a slight shade of brown ; 

 across the lower throat a patch of dull white, extending on each side 

 to the side of the neck ; rest of under surface slaty black, the greater 

 series of under wing-coverts tipped with white ; " eyelids grey ; iris 

 deep brown ; inside of mouth fleshy white" (0« its)- Total length 

 6-7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-1, tail 4, tarsus 0*7. 



Adult female. Like the male, but greyer below, with more white 

 on the throat. Total length G-S inches, wing 2-8, tail 3"9, tarsus 

 0-75. 



Youwj. Much browner than the adults, with rufescent tips to 

 the wing-coverts ; under surface of bodv shaded with dull rufous 



