GENUS RHIPIDURA. 93 
Dr. A. B. Meyer, in his above quoted paper, developes 
the reasons for which he does not believe in Celebes being 
the habitat of A. lenzi, and not having seen any speci- 
mens of this species himself, he utters some doubts as to 
its specific value, the more as it is closely allied to R. 
buruensis and R. cinerea. I fully sbare Dr. Meyer’s doubts 
as to the localities and believe Amboyna to be the only 
well-ascertained habitat of this species. Whether our two 
Ceram birds, which were acquired more than fifty years 
ago, are really from Ceram or not, is hard to say, and 
therefore I should not lay too much weight upon this 
locality, which, moreover, is the habitat of the very clo- 
sely allied species A. cinerea Wall. This latter species, 
the type and only known specimen of which I examined 
in the British Museum, has the whole tail plain sooty 
black (all the twelve tail-feathers are present), whereas 
R. lenzi differs from it in having the terminal half of 
the outer web of the outermost tail-feather white. 
R. lenzi in the British Museum differs from the speci- 
mens in our Museum in having the tip of the inner web 
of the outermost tail-feather also white. Count Salvadori, 
l. ¢., leans to the opinion that A. lenzi might be identical 
with R. cinerea, but for the above mentioned reason, I 
hardly think that this opinion will turn out to be correct. 
60. Rhipidura hoedti, n. sp. 
An adult female from the Island of Lettie, Timor group 
of islands, collected by the Dutch Naturalist Hoedt, May 
24th 1866. 
Closely allied to A. tenkatei, from which it differs, 
however, by the longer white tips to the two outermost 
pairs of tail-feathers and the pure white throat. It stands 
also near R. isura, from Australia, but is so much darker 
that it cannot be confounded with this latter species. 
Above dark gray, darker on the head and nearly black 
on the front, back faintly tinged with brown, upper tail- 
coverts and tail sooty brown, tip of the outermost pair 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
