45. BHIPIDXJKA. 325 



pmier). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-7, tail 3-4 

 tarsus 0-7. ' 



ffab. Java, Borneo *. 



a" ^a' ®*' , , , •^*'^^- Purchased. 



0. Ad. ; c. Ad. sk. W. Java. A. R. WaUace, Esq. [C.]. 



30. Rhipidura threnothorax, 



RMpidura threnothorax, JIUIL .$■ Schle;,. Natuurl. Gesch. Land- en 



QioP-c?'\''°r^^= '^^''"^'' ^^'^n.B. i. p. 2o9; Bp. Consp. Av. i 



p. 323 ; Scl. Pr. L»m Soc. 1858, p. 161 ; Grm,, Cat B. Xeiv Guin. 



^. Z^\Jtnsch, JSeu-Giimea, p. 2S ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p 331 



no. 49/3; Meyer, Sitz. k. Ahad. Wien, Ixbc. p. 21->. ' 



Rhipidura fumosa, Schl. N. T. D. iv. p. 42. 



Adult. General colour above light brown, duller on the lower 

 back and rump, where the feathers have dark-brown bases ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail blackish brown ; wing-coverts and quiUs dark 

 brown, edged with the lighter brown of the back ; crown of head 

 brown, a Httle duller than the back ; from the base of the bill a very 

 broad white streak extending above the eye and surmounted by 'a 

 line of black, formed by the black tips to the superciHary feathers • 

 in front of the eye a blackish patch; ear-coverts ashy brown- 

 cheeks and throat pure white ; fore neck and chest slaty black, with 

 numerous ovate subterminai spots of white ; rest of under surface of 

 body dull ashy, the veut and under tail-coverts blackish ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy, some of the former edged with 

 white ; quills brown below, with edgings of lighter brown on the 

 mner webs ; " upper mandible black, the lower one horn-white • 

 feet black ; iris brown " (,S. Miiller). Total length 7 inches, culmen 

 0-6, wing 3-25, tail 3-65, tarsus 0-85. 



Young female (type of R. fumosa). General colour above dusky 

 chocolate-brown, the rump-feathers blacker with brown edgings • 

 wings darker brown than the back, with very narrow reddish-brown 

 margins to the feathers ; tail-feathers blackish brown ; lores and 

 sides of face duU brown ; over the eye an indistinct spot of white ; 

 throat white ; remainder of under surface of body dusky chocolate' 

 becoming blacker on the lower abdomen and under tail-coverts • 

 under wing-coverts like the breast ; quills dull brown below. (Mus. 

 Lugd.) 



Obs. R. fumosa was considered to be distinct from R. threno- 

 thorax both by Professor Schlegel aud Count Salvadori. I believe 

 that it is the young of the latter, notwithstanding its uniform breast. 

 The colouring of the breast varies from chocolate-brown with white 

 spots to greyish black and entirely black, and the number and size 

 of the spots also varies greatly, becoming apparently fewer and at 

 the same time larger with age. 



Hab. New Guinea and island of Jobi. 



♦ Thi3 species is not included in Count Salvadori's ' Uccelli di Borneo ; ' but 

 Captain Elwes possesses a specimen said to be from that island. 



