45. KHIPIDURA. 



335 



with whito edgings ; " bill black ; legs black ; iris very dark brown " 

 (A. Everett). Total length 7"2 inches, culmen 0-55, wing3"3, tail 4, 

 tarsus 0"85. 



Half of the tail oi Rkipiditra /^/^rtiJorjitJs (reduced). 



Hah. Philippines : islands of Luzon, Cebu, Mindanao, Dinagat, 

 Negros, Bohol, and Palawan. 



a. (^ aJ. sk. Puerto Princesa, Palawan. Prof. J. B. Steere [C.]. 



45. Rhipidura pectoralis. 



Rhipidura fuscoventris, Si/kes, P. Z. S. lS'-'>2, p. 8o {7iec Frankl.) ; 



cf. Bhjth, Ibis, 1865, p. 42. 

 Leucocerca pectoralis, Jerd. III. Ind. Orti. text to pi. ii. ; Bhfth, J. 



A. S.B. xii. p. 935 (184.3) ; id. Cat. B. Mtis. A. S. B. p. 20(3; Bp. 



Cunsp. i. p. 323 : Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 453 ; Butler, S. F. 1875, p. 406 ; 



Hume, Nests ^-Eggs Ind. B. p. 203 ; id. S. F. 1876, pp. 413, 421. 

 Rhipidura pectoralis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 258 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 331, 



no. 4986. 

 Muscipeta leucogaster, Cuv. Mus. Paris; Pucker. Arch. Mus. vii. 



p. 3.33 (1854). 

 Leucocerca leucogaster, .B/yiA, Ibis, 1806, p. 371 ; Fairb. Sir. F. 1876, 



p. 257. 



Adult. General colour above earthy brown, the head blackish, as 

 also the sides of the face and ear-coverts ; over the eye a very broad 

 streak of white from the base of the bill ; \ving-coverts like the back, 

 the median series slightly tipped with fulvous spots ; quills brown, 

 rather more ashy brown on their edges ; tail ashy brown, be- 

 coming rather paler towards the tips of the feathers, which are 

 bully white, the latter colour more extended on the outer feathers ; 

 chin black ; throat white, some of the feathers with obsolete black- 

 ish margins : rest of rmder surface of body creamy buff, deeper on 

 the under tail-coverts, separated from the throat by a black collar 

 across the lower throat : the sides of the breast blackish also, the 

 lower part of the black barred with half- concealed ovate spots of 



