82 REVIEW OF THE 
clear, and sharply pointing to the characters which make this 
species a near ally of A. lepida, I redescribe it here in extenso : 
Head, mantle and lesser wing-coverts dusky fulvous, 
superciliary streak and nuchal region tinged with ferru- 
gineous, back, rump and upper tail-coverts deep ferrugi- 
neous, quills and greater wing-coverts sepia-brown, both 
margined with the color of the back, giving the whole 
wing a rusty appearance. Tail dark brown, with glossy 
red shafts, extreme base of the centre tail-feathers and 
of the outer web of the others ferrugineous, with which 
color the outer webs of all the tail-feathers are fringed 
nearly down to the end; tips of all the tail-feathers at 
the length of about half an inch deep bay, making the 
tail, when seen from underneath, like that of R. lepida, 
with the exception that in the latter the red tips are 
longer and the red is running along the whole outer edge 
of the outermost pair, while in R&R, brachyrhyncha the 
outermost pair is not edged with red exteriorly. The un- 
derparts of the bird are pale grayish fulvous, more inten- 
sely fulvous on breast and abdomen, and cinnamomeous 
on the under tail-coverts. Under wing-coverts fulvous, 
inner lining of the quills vinous bay, bill very short and 
pale, lower mandible, with the exception of the darker 
tip, white, feet and claws pale yellow. Wing 6,4 cm., 
tail 8,7, tarsus 1,9, culmen 1,1. 
The essential differences between R. brachyrhyncha Schl. 
and A. meyert mihi (= R. brachyrhyncha auct. nec Schl.) 
are to be sought for in the color of the tail, which in 
the first species is dark brown with red base and red tips, 
while in the second the centre tail-feathers are entirely 
black, the outer entirely cinnamomeous. 
43. Rhipidura cinnamomea *) Meyer. 
Rhipidura brachyrhyncha (nec Schleg.) Meyer, Sitzb. k. Akad. d. 
Wiss. Wien, LXIX, p. 501 (1874); Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. IV, 
1) See the observations about this species antea, under the heads R. atra 
and brachyrhyncha. 
INotes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
