80 REVIEW OF THE 
brown, white at the base of the lower mandible, feet 
dark brown. Wing 6,6 cm., centre tail-feathers 8,5, outer- 
most pair 6,2, tarsus 2, culmen 1,3. 
39. Rhipidura rufidorsa Meyer. 
A male from Karons, North West New Guinea, Coll. 
Bruyn. 
40. Rhipidura teysmanni, n. sp. 
An unsexed specimen, collected by Teysmann at Ma- 
cassar, Celebes, 1878. 
This species belongs to the group with the forehead, 
back and base of tail-feathers cinnamon-red, and R. ruji- 
frons from Australia may be considered its nearest ally. 
From this latter, as well as from the other species of the 
mentioned group, it differs principally in the red of the 
basal part of the tail being much more widely distribu- 
ted, fully occupying the two basal thirds and being as 
plainly visible on the under surface as on the upper, while 
in all the other species the tail, when closed, hardly will 
show any red region beyond the under tail-coverts. 
Crown, sides of head, the neck and upper part of 
mantle olive-brown, front, back, rump, flanks, thighs, 
upper and under tail-coverts, the two basal thirds of all 
the tail-feathers above and below, cinnamon red. Upper 
wing-coverts and quills sepia-brown, the first broadly edged 
with olive-brown, the latter, with the exception of the 
outermost, broadly fringed with cinnamon, innermost se- 
condaries olive-brown, both webs fringed with cinnamon, 
under wing-coverts fulvous, quills very broadly edged on 
the inside with vinaceous, especially the secondaries; the 
terminal third of tail-feathers about an inch in length in 
the innermost and somewhat less in the outer pairs, sepia- 
brown, for about half their length fringed on the inner 
and outer webs with the color of the basal two thirds, 
the two innermost pairs very narrowly, the outermost 
broadly tipped with ashy fulvous. The shafts of the tail- 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
