REVIEW OF THE GENUS RHIPIDURA. 65 
NOTE IV. 
A REVIEW OF THE GENUS RHIPIDURA, 
WITH AN ENUMERATION OF THE SPECIMENS IN 
THE LEYDEN MUSEUM 
BY 
J. BÜTTIKOFER. 
When occasionally looking over the specimens of the 
genus Rhipidura in our Museum, there were so many 
puzzling questions which could not be satisfactorily dis- 
solved at once, that I decided to a comparative revision 
of the whole genus. This revision is not solely based upon 
our own material, but also on the rich and well-arranged 
collection in the British Museum, which I had the good 
fortune to look through during my recent visit to London, 
and amongst which I found several species, which were 
published after the issue of Dr. Sharpe’s excellent Cata- 
logue of the Muscicapidae. As in this catalogue the syno- 
nymy of each species is well-established up to the date of 
its issue, it would be of very little value to give it here 
once more, and I restricted, therefore, all synonymical 
remarks to those species about which I differ from the 
author of the Catalogue and to the species which were 
published afterwards. 
As to the limits of the genus, I agree with Dr. Sharpe 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
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