45. RHIPIBUKA. 310 



character, I prefer not to separate them specifically ou a single spe- 

 cimen from each locality. 



Hah. New Guinea, Banda, "Waigiou. 



a. Ad. sk. Salwati. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J. 



b. Ad. sk. Banda. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



18. RMpidura elegantula. 

 Rhipidui'a elegantula, Sharpe, Notes Leyden Mmemn, vol. i. no. 6,p. 22. 



Adult male (Lettie, June 1st, 1866 ; type of species). General 

 colour above bright cinnamon-rufous, rather lighter on the back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts ; wings ashy brown, with reddish 

 edgings to the wiug-coverts and quills, a little plainer on the secon- 

 daries, the greater coverts fulvescent at their tips ; tail-feathers 

 ashy brown, rufous at the extreme base and for a little extent of 

 the margins of both webs, all tipped with white, increasing in ex- 

 tent on the outer ones, and extending even some distance up the 

 outer web of the exterior feather ; forehead conspicuouslj' white, 

 extending backwards above the fore part of the eye ; a narrow 

 frontal line of black plumelets, tipped with rufous ; lores, feathers 

 round the eye, aud ear-coverts black ; cheeks and throat white, ex- 

 tending backwards in a triangular mark on the sides of the neck ; 

 across the throat a black band, separating the white throat from 

 the rest of the under surface, which is also white, washed slightly 

 with buff on the sides of the body ; the feathers on the fore neck 

 adjoining the black throat-band with black bases, producing a 

 mottled appearance when the plumage is disturbed ; thighs white, 

 with brown bases ; under wing-coverts white ; quills ashy brown 

 below, whitish along the inner web. Total length 6'5 inches, cul- 

 men 0-5, wing 2-9, tail 3'9, tarsus 0-85. {Mus. Lugd.) 



Hah. Island of Lettie. 



19. Ehipidtira rufifrons. 



Rufous-fronted Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 220. 



Muscicapa rufifrons, Lath. hid. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. 1. 



Rhipidura rufifrons, Vi(/. §• Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 248 ; Gould, 



B. Austr. folio, ii. pi. 84 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 259 ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 82.3; Reichenb. Voy. Niuholl. p. 98; Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i. 



p. 240 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 830, no. 4956; Diyyles, Orn. Austr. 



pi. 36. fig. 1 ; Ratnsay, Ibis, 1875, p. 377 ; id. Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N. S. TV. ii. p. 182. 

 Rhipidura torrida, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 477, pi. 28; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 831, no. 4982 ; Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, ix. p. 632. 



Adidt male. Head, neck, and sides of latter earthy brown ; re- 

 mainder of back and upper tail-coverts bright bay, the mantle shaded 

 with brown ; wing-coverts and quills scpia-brown, externally 

 washed with earthy brown, rather more rufous on the greater 

 coverts and secondaries ; tail-feathers bay- coloured at the base, 

 sepia-brown for the terminal half, distinctly tipped with white ; 



