28 ( ATALOliUK OK BIRDS IKOM NEW (;UINEA. 



TCHITREA GaIMAKUI. 



Muscicapa {Tchitrea) Gaitnardi, Less. Tr. d'CJiii. \). 'M(t. 

 Ilab. New Guinea {Lesson) 



Rhipidura threnothorax. 



lihipidura threnothorax, Mvill. & Schl. Verh. Ellin, p. 18."). 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo {Midler). 



Rhipidura rufiventris. 



lihipidura rujiventris, Miill. & Schl. Verh. Ethn. ]). 18;*. 

 Hah. New Guinea ; hohn {Miiller). 



Rhipidura hyperythra. 



Rhipidura hyperythra, G. R.Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 17<J. 



Phunbeous ; head and throat black ; quills and tail fuscous black, 

 margined with plumbeous ; spot at the base ol' lower mandible, 

 which advances into two lines, one on each side of the throat, and 

 the tips of the wing-coverts and tail-feathers white ; breast and ab- 

 domen rusty red ; bill black, lower mandible yellow ; feet duskv olive. 



Length 6" 3'" ; wings 2" 9'". 



Hah. Aru Islands {Wallace). 



This may be the R. rufiventris, Miill. '] 



Rhipidura gularis. 



Rhipidura yularis, Miill. & Schl. Verh. Ethn. j). 185. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo, River Oetanata, and P. Mariannes 

 Straits (3/«7/e;-)- ^'^^.i^^-j Vvnx<Wtv vnv«<f^^.^W«^/.) 



Rhipidura assimihs. 



Rhipidura assimilis, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 17(3. 



Closely allied to R. isura, Gould (B. of Austr. ii. pi. 85), but 

 rather larger, with the breast paler ; under wing-coverts buft'y white, 

 and the outer tail-feather with less white than in the Australian 

 specimens. 



a. Ke Island. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



Rhipidura .maculipen^;-*^. 



Rhipidura maculipennis, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, ]). 17(). 



S . Deep black ; with aline from nostrils passing above the eyes, 

 and a broad line proceeding from the base of the bill on each side of 

 the throat, the tips of the feathers of breast, of tail, of the upper 

 and under wing-coverts, white. 



$ . Brownish l)laek ; but similarly marked in other resj)ects with 

 white ; upi)er mandible and feet black, lower white. 



Length 8" 8'" ; wings 3" '_'"'. 



rt, b. Aru Islands. Procured from Mi'. Wallace. 



