45. RHIPlDtJRA. 333 



Leucocerca javanica, lilyth, Cut. B. Mm. A. S. B. p. 2UU; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 324 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Tli. i. p. 57; Bernst. J.f. O. 1859, p. 266 ; 



Salcad. Ucc. Born. p. 135; Tiveedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 316; IIu?ne if 



Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 226. 

 Rhipidura longicauda, Wall. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 476. 

 Leucocerca iufumata, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 455. 



Adult female (E. Java). General colour dark brown, very slightly 

 washed with rufous on the lower back ; least wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater series and quills dark brown, edged and 

 tipped with pale rufous-buff, the primaries obsoletely margined ; tail 

 dark brown, with reddish-brown shafts, all but the two centre 

 feathers tipped with white : crown of head, sides of face, and ear- 

 coverts ashy black ; the fore part of the cheeks and chin also black ; 

 over the eye a line of white ; entire throat white, extending upon the 

 sides of the neck : across the fore neck a band of black, washed 

 with grey on the sides ; remainder of under surface yellowish white, 

 deepening into light fawn-colour on the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts ; thigh-feathers brown, edged with fawn-colour ; sides of 

 body brown : under wing-coverts white ; axillaries dark brown, with 

 fawn-coloured edgings ; quills brown below, with ashy edges to the 

 inner webs. Total length 7"2 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-85, tail 3-5, 

 tarsus O'To. 



YouiKj. Browner than the adults, the feathers of the upper surface 

 obscurely edged with rufous, the wing-coverts tipped with dull 

 rufous ; eye-streak veiy indistinct ; band across the fore neck 

 browner than in the adult. 



Obs. Rhipidura loiujicauda of Wallace is this species, and is 

 apparently only the adult male. The latter sex I am unable to 

 describe with certainty, not one of the series in the British Museum 

 being determined by dissection. Mr. Wallace describes R. longicauda 

 as "very near R. Jauanico, from which it differs in the longer tail, 

 narrower white tips to only three outer tail-feathers, and the black 

 chin." Having not only Mr. Wallace's series, but a much larger 

 one besides in the Museum from Labuan, I am able to state posi- 

 tively that these differences are not specific. There is an example 

 from Labuan exactly agreeing with the type of R. loitgicauda, and 

 it is evidently of the same species as the other Labuan birds, which 

 again agree with Javan examples of R. javanica. At the same time 

 R. longicauda is probably the old male, as it is darker than the 

 female described, has the head blacker, the hind neck washed ^\ith 

 slat}' grey, the eyebrow very distinct, the under siirface white with 

 a slight tinge of fawn-colour, the chin with a very little black, the 

 collar on the throat intensely black, except at the sides, which are 

 slaty grey, the lateral breast-feathers mottled, half black and half 

 white : total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-G, -wing 3"25, tail 4-1, 

 tarsus U-9. The breadth of the tips to the tail-feathers varies 

 greatly, as does also the amount of black on the chin, which depend.s 

 very much on the way in which the skin is prepared. 



ifah. Indo-Chinese countries. Tenasserim, and Cochin China, 

 ranging down the Malayan peninsula to the Sunda Islands. 



