320 MUSOICAPID^. 



forehead bay, extending in a small streak backwards above the eye ; 

 lores, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts blackish ; lower edge 

 of eyelid white ; cheeks and upper part of the throat white ; lower 

 part of the throat black, forming a large patch ; fore neck mottled 

 with black and white, the feathers being black in the centre, with 

 broad white margins ; centre of breast and abdomen white ; sides of 

 body, thighs, and under tail-coverts deep fawn-buff ; under wing- 

 coverts white, washed with buff on the edge of the wing ; quills 

 dusky brown below, with whitish edges to the inner webs ; " bill, 

 feet, and iris brown " {Gould). Total length 6*3 inches, culmen 0"5, 

 wing 2-95, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-8. 



Adult female. A little duller in colour than the male, the ear- 

 coverts browner, and the mantle more shaded with brown. Total 

 length 6"1 inches, wing 2'85, tail 3*4, tarsus 0-75. 



Totmg. Reprodiicing the colours of the adult, but having them 

 all more dingy, and the red on the forehead and underparts paler 

 and more buff ; wing-coverts aU tipped with rufous ; throat and 

 cheeks duU white, with a slight shade of rufous ; fore neck dull 

 black, the edgings dingy white and broader than in the adults, the 

 sides of the breast dull ashy. 



Hab. Australia : " Port Denison, Wide-Bay district, Eiehmond 

 and Clarence rivers district, N. S. Wales, Victoria " (E. P. liamsay). 

 Barnard Islands ; island of Ternate. 



«. Juv. sk. Australia. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad. st. Australia. J. Gould, Esq. [0.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Barnard Islands, June 9, 1848 Capt. Stanley [P.]. 



(J. MacyilKvray) . 



d. $ ad. sk. Flew on board near Cape York, Capt. Stanley [P.]. 



Oct. 6, 1848 (/. M.). 



e. Juv. sk. Cape York. Mr. Cockerell [C.]. 



/. c? ad. sk. Ternate Island. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of R. torrida.) 



20. Rhipidura versicolor. 

 Rhipidura versicolor, Hartl. 6f Finsch, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 96. 



Adult. TJppei-parts a rich brown with a slight reddish tinge ; 

 forehead bright rufous ; upper and under tail-coverts rufous ; throat 

 white, margined underneath by an irregular jugdar band of pure 

 black ; pectoral plumes black, broadly margined with yellowish 

 white ; middle of abdomen whitish, sides of a paler olive-brown ; 

 under wing-coverts whitish ; wing-feathers blackish brown ; tail- 

 feathers brownish black, all largely tipped with white, the four 

 middle ones rufous at the base, the white terminal spots becoming 

 smaller towards the middle ; beak fuscous, the under mandible 

 paler, except at the tip ; feet fuscous. Total length about 5" 9'", 

 bill from front 4|"', wing 2" 6'", tail 3" 3'", tarsus 8'". {Hartlaub 6f 

 Finsch, I. c.) 



Hah. Island of Uap, Mackenzie group. 



