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on February 13th and 15th 1876. The female has some 
rusty red feathers on the breast and near the base of the tail. 
Unfortunately for the synonymy of this and other spe- 
cies, a great confusion was caused by the statement of 
Beccari’s, that the specimens of R. atra Salvad. were nothing 
but the black males and the specimens of B. brachy- 
rhyncha auct. recent. (nec Schleg.) the red females of 
one and the same species, which ought to bear, as the 
older, the name R. brachyrhyncha. Although this point of 
view he agreed with by our most eminent recent Ornitho- 
logists, I feel, after a near examination of the matter, 
quite unable to share this opinion. It is a rather strange 
supposition that, in only one species of such a large 
genus, male and female would be so strikingly different in 
color, the more as in our Museum as well as in the series 
treated of by Salvadori in the second volume of his Orni- 
thologia delle Papuasia, one of the black specimens is said 
to be a female. The same is, moreover, the case with the 
only specimen of this species, found in the collections of 
the British Museum, being a black female from the Arfak 
Mountains. 
Very curious is the fact that the red birds, which were 
considered, first by Dr. A. B. Meyer and afterwards by 
Dr. Sharpe and Count Salvadori, to belong to A. brachy- 
rhyncha Schleg., are quite different from this latter species. 
They cannot be identified either with R. brachyrhyncha 
nor &. atra, of which they were believed to be the fema- 
les, but belong to a quite different species, which is iden- 
tical with R. cinnamomea, described by Dr. A. B. Meyer 
in Zeitschr. f. Ges. Orn. 1886, p. 17, pl. III, fig. 3. 
15. Rhipidura albicollis Vieillot. 
Rhipidura albicollis Vieill. N. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. XXVII, p. 13. 
Rhipidura atrata Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, XIV, p. 203 (1879). 
Rhipidura vidua (nec Salvad.) Schleg. in Snelleman, Sumatra Exp. 
Aves, pl. II (1884). 
Three specimens from the Indian Continent and one 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
