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2. Rhipidura tenkatei, u. sp. 



Closely allied to R. buruensis , but diflfers principally in 

 having the abdomen paler and the outer tail-feathers 

 broadly tipped with white. 



General color above dark slaty gray , somewhat tinged 

 with olive-brown , crown and sides of the head much 

 darker, a concealed patch of silky white feathers above the 

 eye, wing-coverts like the back, the greater ones and the 

 primary coverts tipped with dirty white , probably indi- 

 cating a certain stage of immaturity, quills sooty brown, 

 the secondaries on the outside very narrowly fringed and 

 more broadly tipped with brownish white, upper tail- 

 coverts glossy brownish black like the crown; tail black, 

 the terminal third (2,3 cm.) of the outermost pair of tail- 

 feathers pure white, which color occupies also the outer 

 web and the shaft nearly up to the base , the second pair 

 with an oval white terminal spot of the length of 1,5 

 cm., leaving, on the outer web, a black edge nearly 

 reaching down to the tip , third pair with a wedge-shaped, 

 narrow white spot at the tip , three innermost pairs uni- 

 form brownish black. Chin , throat and chest dark ashy 

 gray, the first minutely, the two latter largely spotted 

 with white on the centre of the feather, as is the case 

 in R. buruensis ; breast , abdomen and flanks very pale 

 fulvous, under tail-coverts almost pure white, under wing- 

 coverts dark ashy , broadly tipped with the color of the 

 breast, inner edge of quills pale ashy, bill and feet 

 black. 



Wing 7,6 cm., central tail-feathers 8, outermost 7, 

 culmen 1,6, tarsus 1,6. 



Hab. Rotti. One specimen. 



3. Dicaeum mackloti Mull. & Schl. 



A young bird , probably a female , showing on the 

 lesser wing-coverts some glossy feathers of the plumage 

 of the adult stage ; rump and upper tail-coverts lively 



Notes from tlie E-ieyclen Aluweuin, Vol. XIV. 



