-io. KUIPIDUKA. 337 



Streaks becoming browner and narrower towards tbe abdomen 

 wbich IS unspotted; sides of body brown ; thighs brown; -under 

 tail-coverts white, the longer ones dull brown with whitish tips • 

 under wiug-coverts and axillaries brown, with light ochraceous or 

 whitish edgings ; " biU black ; leg« dark brown ; iris brown " (La,/ard) 

 lof^al length 6-5 mchos, culmen (j-45, wing 3-2, tail 3-65, tarsus 0-75 



} ouny. Coloured as in adult, but much duUer, with the back 

 washed with rusty and ^^ ith rust-coloured edges to the wing-coverts 

 and secondaries ; below, the streaks much more obscure : white 

 streaks on the sides of the head indistinct. 



Hah. Fiji group of islands : Ovalau, Yiti Leva. 



u. S ad. .sk. Ovalau, Xov. 4, 1874 R. B. Sharpo, Esq. rP-l 



{E. L. Lm/ard). i L j 



b. 2juv.sk. Ovalau, Dec. 10,1874. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. fP.^. 



f. c?ad. sk. \itil.eyn{Klc{nschmidt). Godeffi-oy Museum. 



47. Rhipidura erythronota. (Plate X. fig. 1.) 

 Rhipidura albicollis, Lmjard, Ibis, 187G, p. 392 (pt.). 



Achdt female. Similar to R. hufar./l, from Ovalau and Viti Levu 

 but diftcring in its rufous back (not to be confounded with the youn<^ 

 plumage of /i" la>jardi): wing-coverts and quills blackish brown" 

 externally sbghtly washed with the same colour as the back some 

 ot the median and greater coverts with remains of whitish tips • 

 under surface of body as in li. lai/ardl, but rather richer ochi-aceous' 

 the black streaks few in number, broader and not extending below 

 the upper breast ; under wing-coverts nifous ; tail as in R. lamtrdi 

 lotal length 6-1 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-2, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-85 ' 



Hab. iiji group ; island of Vanua Levu. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Vanua Levu, Oct. 23, 1875 Godeffi^oy Museum. 



{Kleinschmidt). 



b. ^d. sk. Savu Savu Bay, Eeb. 3, 1877. Dr. Smith [0.1 



c. $ juv. sk. Savu Savu Bay, Jan. 17, 1877. Dr. Smith [C.]. 



48. Rhipidura rufilateralis. (Plate X. fig. 2.) 



Rhipidura albicoUis, Lcujanl, Ibis, 1870, pp. 149, 392 (pt.). 



Adult male. Resembling R. erijthromUi in having the upper sur 

 tace rufous-brown, but the head only a little duUer than the back 

 whereas m both species from the other Fiji islands the head is ashy 

 and contrasts with the back. Underneath, the white of the throat 

 occupies ako the fore neck and chest, the dusky spots bein^ few in 

 number, terminal and triangular, and not continuing upon°the ab 

 domen, which is rufous like the flanks and under wino-coverts ■ 

 thighs rufous ; under tail-coverts white ; " bill black the lower 

 mandible white; legs horn-brown; iris brown" {E L Lui/ard) 



'^""^^l H?,r1^ ''''' '°'''"''' '''^™''" ^■^' "^"'g -■'■^- t«ii ;>1, tarsus U-75 



Obs. iliis IS a smaUer species than the other iiifous-back Fiji'in 



Rhipidora: ; and I may mention, in case it may be supj.osed to be an 



