98 REVIEW OF THE GENUS RHIPIDURA. 
13. Rhipidura albifrontata Franklin. 
Three specimens from the Indian Continent. 
Distinguished from all its congeners by the very broad 
pure white front and superciliary stripes, leaving only a 
narrow space on the centre of the crown black; throat 
black, rest of under surface white. All but centre tail- 
feathers broadly tipped with white, outer web of outer- 
most pair entirely white. 
74, Rhipidura cockerelli Ramsay. 
Rhipidura cockerelli Ramsay, P.L.S. New South Wales, VI, p. 181 
(1881); Sharpe, Birds of New Guinea, Vol. II, pl. 28. 
Sauloprocta (?) cockerelli Salvadori, Orn. Pap. III, p. 531. 
An adult male from Guadalcanar, Solomon Islands. 
Upper surface, throat, chest and breast black, abdomen, 
under tail-coverts, numerous drop-shaped spots on the 
chest, a superciliary spot and the outer webs of inner 
secondaries pure white. Tail uniform black, nearly square. 
75. LRhipidura melaleuca (Quoy & Gaim.). 
Rhipidura tricolor (Vieill.) N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. XXL, p. 490; Sharpe, 
Cat. B. Br. Mus. IV, p. 339. 
Sauloprocta melaleuca Salvad. Orn. Pap. II, p. 48. - 
A series of about sixty specimens from Morotai, Halmahera, 
Ternate, Tidore, Motir, Batchian, Obi, Bouru, Amboyna, 
Ceram, Goram, Poulo Padjang, Aru, Mysol, Guebeh, 
Waigiou, New Guinea, Meosnoum, Duke of York, Cape York. 
This species being only black and white, [ fully agree 
with Count Salvadori, who rejected the oldest name (tri- 
color) in favor of the second (melaleuca), but on the 
other hand I could not find sufficient reason to separate 
it generically from /hipidura. 
Two nestlings of this species differ from the adult in 
having the upper wing-coverts narrowly tipped with brown 
and the superciliary streak as well as vent and under tail- 
coverts washed with fulvous. 
Leyden Museum, September 1892. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XV. 
