RHIPIDURA MEYERI. 113 
NOTE X. 
A COMPLEMENTARY NOTE 
TO MY REVIEW OF THE GENUS RHIPIDURA 
BY 
J. BUTTIKOFER. 
When, in my »Review of the genus Rhipidura”, I was 
to decide what to make of the two specimens from Mount 
Arfak, described antea, p. 82, species 43, I believed them, 
on the authority of Dr. A. B. Meyer, to be specifically 
distinct from his R. cinnamomea. 
Our Arfak birds, as well as the specimens mentioned by 
Dr. Meyer as R. brachyrhyncha, thus belonging neither to 
this latter species nor to the closely allied R. cinnamomea 
Meyer, nor being, in my mind, the females of R. atra 
Salvad., they were enregistered as a new species, which I 
named /. meyeri in honor of Dr. Meyer, who was the first 
to give a description of the bird and who only with some 
hesitation identified it with R. brachyrhyncha Schlegel. 
Afterwards, when making up the key to the species, I 
was quite unable to thoroughly distinguish R. meyeri mihi 
from the eastern form A. cinnamomea, so well agree ori- 
ginal description and measurements of this latter species 
with the two Arfak specimens in our Museum. 
Dr. Meyer admits that his R. cinnamomea is closely al- 
lied with the Arfak bird, but »weit lebhafter zimmetfar- 
ben und kleiner.” The expression »lebhafter zimmetfarben” 
is not strengthened by the figure of the bird on plate III, 
the color in this figure being darker, especially on the 
upper surface which differs so much from the lower, that 
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