GENUS RHIPIDURA. 83 
p. 316 (description of the female); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Ge- 
- nova, XIV, p. 500 (1879); Orn, Pap. II, p. 72 (Q). 
Rhipidura cinnamomea Meyer, Zeitschr. f. ges. Orn. III, p. 17, 
pl. III, fig. 3 (1886). 
A female collected by Bruyn, and an unsexed specimen 
collected by Woelders, both from Arfak, N. W. New Guinea. 
General color cinnamon, somewhat paler below than 
above, especially on chin and throat, which are pale ful- 
vous. Crown and hind neck tinged with olive; quills and 
wing-coverts dark brown, edged with the color of the 
back, under wing-coverts and inner edge of quills cin- 
namon. Three outermost pairs of tail-feathers uniform 
cinnamon, the fourth pair cinnamon on the outer, black 
on the inner web, the two innermost pairs entirely black. 
Bill very short, the bristles reaching beyond the tip, upper 
mandible black, lower white, feet pale flesh-color. Wing 
7,1 cm., tail 8, outermost pair 6, tarsus 2, culmen 1,2. 
In the distribution of the colors on the tail-feathers this 
species agrees with the two following: Rl. cyaniceps and 
albiventris, but there seems to occur some individual diffe- 
rence, probably due to age. While in our above described 
specimen the fourth tail-feather has the inner web entirely 
black, the other specimen has one of the feathers of the 
fourth pair nearly almost black on the inner web, while 
the other feather of the same pair has only a basal part 
of the inner web black and the whole rest cinnamomeous. 
In the specimen erroneously described by Dr. Meyer as 
R. brachyrhyncha (Sitzb. Wien, LXIX, p. 501) the black 
on the tail-feathers seems, on the other hand, to be more 
widely distributed, as it occupies not only the whole outer 
web of the fourth pair, but also the edge of the inner 
web of the third and the base of the inner web of the 
second, leaving only the first (outermost) pair entirely 
red. Dr. Meyer’s type is the first male which is as yet 
known of this hitherto wrongly understood species. 
Salvadori (Aggiunte Orn. Pap. 1890), considering A. 
cinnamoméa to differ specifically from what he says to be 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
