GENUS RHIPIDURA. 81 
feathers have the color of the accompanying parts of their 
webs, but the red on the basal part is running, though 
not very far, into the black terminal third. Chin and 
upper throat pure white, a rather narrow black bar with- 
out any white edgings to the feathers, across the chest, 
centre of breast and abdomen pale fulvous with a rather 
whitish tinge, rest of under surface cinnamon. Bill black- 
ish, whitish at base, feet pale brown. Wing 6,9 cm, . 
centre tail-feathers 8, outermost 6, tarsus 1,9, bill from 
front 1,2. 
I am much pleased to name this fine species after its 
discoverer, the late Mr. Teysmann, who, besides his well- 
known botanical investigations throughout the Indian Ar- 
chipelago, spent much time in enriching the ornithological 
collections of the Leyden Museum. 
41. Rhipidura lepida Hartl. & Finsch. 
An adult female from Pelew (Museum Godeffroy). 
42. Rhipidura brachyrhyncha Schlegel. 
Rhipidura brachyrhyncha Schleg. Ned. Tijdschr. voor de Dierk. IV, 
p. 42 (1873). 
Rhipidura rufa Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, VII, p. 923 (1875); 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. IV, p. 323; Salvad. Orn. Pap. II, 
p. 71 (1881). 
A female, collected by von Rosenberg at Hattam, North 
West New Guinea, 1870. 
As I have already pointed out when treating of R. atra, 
the birds considered to be R. brachyrhyncha by Meyer, 
Salvadori and Sharpe are not identical with R. brachy- 
rhyncha Schleg., and it is by mistake that Salvadori states 
to have examined the type of the latter, which is still 
preserved unstuffed in the margazines of the Leyden Mu- 
seum. Most likely Salvadori took our stuffed female of 
R. meyeri mihi for the type of Schlegel’s R. brachyrhyncha, 
as this specimen bears the latter name in his hand-writing. 
Although Schlegel’s description of R. brachyrhyncha is very 
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