240 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 



All the upper surface, ear-coverts, and a band across the 

 chest sooty black, slightly tmged with olive, the tail, crown of 

 the head, and pectoral band being rather the darkest ; stripe 

 over the eye, lunar-shaped mark behind the eye, throat, tips 

 of the wing-coverts, margins of the secondaries, shafts, outer 

 webs, and tips of all but the two middle tail-feathers white ; 

 under surface buff; eyes black ; bill and feet brownish black. 



Sp. 135. RHIPIDURA PREISSI, Cabanis. 



Preiss's Pantail. 

 Rhipidura Preissi, Cab. Mus. Hein., Theil i. p. 57. 



This is the bird I have alluded to in my account of B. 

 alhiscapa. As I have now no specimens in my collection, I 

 am unable to institute a comparison and form an opinion as to 

 its specific value ; it is, therefore, given on the authority of the 

 learned Berlin Professor, who has named it in honour of Dr. 

 Preiss, an ardent collector of natural history, who spent some 

 years in the neighbourhood of Swan River. If not identical, 

 it is very closely allied to H. albiscccpa. Its habitat is Western 

 Australia. 



Sp. I86-. RHIPIDURA RUFIERONS. 



Rufous-fronted Pantail. 



Muscicapa rufifrons, Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl., p. \. 

 Orange-rumped Flycatcher, Lewin, Birds of New Holl.^ pi. 13. 

 Rufous-fronted Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 220. 

 Rhipidura rufifrons, Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 248. 

 Bur-ril, Aborigines of New South Wales. 



Rhipidura rufifrons, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. ii. pi. 84. 



The Rufous-fronted Pantail is one of the most beautiful 

 and one of the oldest known members of the group to which 

 it belongs, having been originally described by Latham in 

 his ' Index Ornithologicus,' and included in the works of 

 nearly every subsequent writer on ornithology. In Mr. 



