RHIPIDURA ELEGANTULA. 23 



NOTE VII. 

 RHIPIDURA ELEGANTULA. 



On a new Rhipidura from the Island of Lettie. 



By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F. L. S. etc. 



It is much to be regretted that we do not know more 

 of the natural history of the island of Lettie, the little 

 that we do know tending to shew that its Ornithology 

 embraces some highly peculiar forms, witness the Ptilopus 

 cinctus letfiensis of Schlegel (Mus. Pays-Bas, Columbae, 

 p. 35). Lettie is a small island to the east of Timor. 



The species of Rhipidura found there is a very striking 

 one, and I propose to call it 



Rhipidura elegantida^ sp. n. 



R. affinis R. squamatae ex Banda , sed capite nuchaque 

 cinnamomeis dorso concoloribus , et pectore albo , nee nigro 

 alboque squamato , valde diversa. 



Hab. in insula 'Lettie' dicta. 



Adult male. General colour above bright cinnamon-rufous, 

 rather lighter on the back , rump , and upper tail-coverts : 

 wings ashy brown with reddish margins to the wiiig- 

 coverts and quills , a little plainer on the secondaries , the 

 greater coverts fulvescent at their tips: tail-feathers ashy 

 brown , rufous at the extreme base and for a little extent 

 of the margins of both webs , all tipped with white , in- 

 creasing in extent on the outer feathers , and extending 

 also some distance up the outer web of the exterior feather : 

 forehead conspicuously white, extending backwards above 



Notes from the Leyden ]Museuni, 



