45. RHIPIDURA. 327 



I. Wallace, Esq. [CI. 

 I. Wallace, Esq. [C.I. 

 I. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Aril Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 



d. Ad. sk. Salwati. A. R. 



e. Adv sk. New Guinea. A. R. 



32. Ehipidura leucothorax. 



Rhipidura leucothorax, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vi. p. 311, vii. 

 p. 8:20, ix. p. 25, et x. p. 134. 



Adult. General colour above dark chocolate-brown, the rump 

 more dingy ; upper tail-coverts and tail blackish, all the feathers, 

 including the two centre ones, tipped with white, the outer ones 

 more broadly ; wings dark brown, the coverts minutely tipped with 

 white ; head darker than the back ; lores and sides of face blackish ; 

 over the eye a narrow line of white ; chin white ; cheeks and lower 

 throat black ; fore neck and chest black, with ovate subterminal 

 spots of white ; a triangular patch of white on each side of the lower 

 throat, widening out on each side of the neck and separated by the 

 mesial black throat which joins the fore neck ; centre of body white, 

 the feathers of the upper breast margined with smoky brown ; sides 

 of body smoky brown ; thighs and under tail-coverts black; under 

 wing-coverts white, with blackish bases ; quills dark brown, with 

 lighter brown edges to the inner webs ; " bill black above, white 

 below; feet and iris black" (Z>'^?ie?-<!s). Total length 6*5 inches, 

 culmen 0*6, wing 2-9, tail 3-5, tarsus (.>85. 



Hob. New Guinea : Xorth-west and South-eastern parts. 



a. Ad. sk. New Guinea. Purchased. 



33. Rhipidura bourouensis. 



Rhipidura bourueusis, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 29; Finsck, Neu- 

 Guinea, p. 109 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 331, no. 4967. 



Adult female (type of species). General colour above dark slaty 

 grey, the crown and sides of face slaty black, with a small streak of 

 white over the eye ; sides of neck like the back ; wings brown, the 

 coverts externally washed with slaty grey, the greater series with 

 obsolete white spots at the tip, the inner secondaries with lighter 

 edges ; tail dark brown, with a shade of slat}' grey on the outer 

 webs, the outermost feather bufly white along the outer web ; 

 throat white, the cheek-feathers black, tipped with white ; breast 

 slaty grey, the fore neck and chest with numerous ovate spots of 

 white ; sides of body slaty grey, mixed with ochre on the lower 

 flanks ; abdomen and under tail-coverts rich ochre, as also the 

 thighs ; under wing-coverts dull ochraceous, with ashy-brown bases ; 

 axillaries ashy brown, edged with ochraceous. Total length 7 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 3*4, tail 3'7, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. Island of Bouru, Moluccas. 



a, b. $ ad. sk. Bouru. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



(Tjrpes of species.) 

 c, d. Ad. sk. Bouru. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



