326 MtTSCICAPlDJ5. 



a. Ad. sk. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 



b. Ad. s)f. Salwati. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 



31. Rhipidura maculipectus. 



Rhipidura maculipectus, Crray, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 17G; Finsch, Neu- 

 Guinea, p. 109 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 330, no. 49G0 ; Sahxul. 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vi. p. 311, ix. p. 2o, et x. p. 134. 



Rhipidura maculipennis (lapm), Gray, Cat. B. Nexv Guin. p. 28. 



Rhipidura satiu-ata, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 323. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above dull blackish 

 brown, the crown of head, nimp, and upper tail-covcrts blacker ; 

 wing-coverts slaty black, all minutely tipped with white; quills 

 blackish brown ; tail-feathers black, tipped with white, increasing 

 in extent towards the outermost ; sides of face black ; from the base 

 of the bill a distinct streak of white above the eye ; chin, a broad 

 moustache running down and widening out on the sides of the 

 throat, white ; centre of throat and under surface of body black, 

 rather more ashy on the abdomen ; feathers of the fore neck and 

 chest subterminally spotted with white ; under tail-coverts black, 

 tipped with white ; under wing-coverts and axiUaricH blackish, 

 broadly edged with white ; quills brown below, washed with ashy 

 on the edge of the inner webs ; " bill black, the lower manchble 

 white; feet black" (Wallace). Total length 7*7 inches, culmen 

 0-6, wing 3-1, tail 4-0, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 7'2 inches, 

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



Ohs. New-Guinea birds have larger and more numerous white 

 spots on the chest than those from the Aru Islands. 



Young female (\:y^e oi E. saturata). General colour above sooty 

 black, becoming deeper black on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; 

 wings rather browner than the back ; tail black, all but the two 

 centre feathers broadly tipped with white ; above the eye a 

 white streak; lores and sides of face black; chin and sides of 

 throat white, with black tips to many of the feathers ; centre 

 of throat and remainder of under surface of body sooty brown, 

 deepening into black on the under tail-coverts ; the breast-feathers 

 on being parted show concealed spots of white ; under wing- 

 coverts blackish, broadly tipped with white ; quills ashy blackish 

 below. Total length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-8, tail 3-9, 

 tarsus 0-85. {Mus. Lugd.) 



Ohs. I have examined the type of R. saturata in the Leiden 

 Museum. On moving the breast>feathers spots of white are plainly 

 to be seen, and I believe it to be only the young bird of li. maculi- 

 pectus. The bUl has a blackish spot at the tip of the otherwise 

 white under mandible ; and this I take also to be a sign of youth. 



Hah. Aru Islands and New Guinea. 



a,b. cJ ? ad. sk. Aru Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 



