45. RHIPIDUKA. 323 



ashy grey, slightly washed with rufous ; rest of under surface of 

 body, as well as the under wing-coverts, foxy rufous, like the back ; 

 quills brown below, rufous along the inner web ; " iris black." 

 Total length 6'3 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3*25, tail 3*5, tarsus 0'95. 



Adult female. Not distinguishable from the male. Total length 

 6-9 inches, wing 3-2, tail 3*6, tarsus 0-95. 



YouiH/. Like the adults, but with a browner head, and having a 

 dusky-brown throat-mark washed with rufous, instead of the black 

 spot of the adult. 



Hub. Pelew Islands. 



(') ^- c? 2 ad. st. Pelew Islands {Kubary). Museum Godeflroy. 



c. Ad. ; d. Juv. sk. Pelew Islands. Mr. Cohen [C.]. 



26. Ehipidura rufa. 

 Rhipidura rufa, Salvad. Ann. Mm. Civic. Genov. \di, p. 923. 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above cinnamon, 

 browner on the head, deeper and more chestnut on the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts and quills brown, margined with 

 rufous ; tail brown, rufous on the outer webs of the two centre tail- 

 feathers, the others blackish on the inner webs, rufous-brown on the 

 outer, all the feathers with rufous shafts and broad tips of pale 

 rufous ; lores pale orange-buff ; sides of face and chin dusky cin- 

 namon ; throat dull ashj- ; remainder of under surface pale cinnamon- 

 buff; under tail-coverts chestnut; under wing-coverts pale cin- 

 namon ; quills dusky brown below, with light rufous edges to the 

 inner webs. Total length 5'8 inches, culmen 0"-i, wing 2-ob, tail 

 3*4, tarsus 0'7o. {Mus. Civic. Genov.) 



Hah. North-western New Guinea ; Arfak Mountains. 



27. Rhipidura cyaniceps, 



Muscipeta cyaniceps, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1855, p. 438 ; id. U.S. 



Expl. Krp. p. 145, pi. 9. fig. 1. 

 Rhipidura camceps (lapsu), Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 331, no. 4966. 

 Philentoma cyauicep?, Walden, Tr. Z. 8. ix. p. 182 ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. 



Soc. new series, i. p. 325 ; Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 693. 



Adult. Head and neck slaty grey, the crown streaked with 

 silvery cobalt down each feather ; sides of face, sides of neck, and 

 mantle dull greyish ; back and scapulars chestnut ; wing-coverts 

 slaty grey with faint shaft-streaks of brighter blue, the innermost 

 of the greater series chestnut like the back ; quills blackish, the 

 secondaries externally edged with chestnut, the innermost entirely 

 of the latter colour ; two centre tail-feathers black, the next on 

 each side black on the inner web, chestnut on the outer, the rest of 

 the tail chestnut ; entire throat and breast slaty grey, streaked 

 down the centre of the feathers with silvery blue ; rest of the under 

 surface deep ochraceous buff, as jdso the under wing-coverts ; under 

 tail-coverts light chestnut. Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 0"5, 

 wing 3-15, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-65. 



