62 RHIPIDURA DEDEMI, 
Rhipidura dedemi nov. sp. 
Ad. 4. Forehead, crown, lores, earcoverts, sides of neck, 
hind-neck and upper back brown; superciliary stripe white, 
margined above and below with black; behind the eye a 
large white spot; lower back, rump and upper tailcoverts 
rusty red; chin and throat white; fore-neck black; breast- 
feathers black, broadly margined with white; vent white; 
erissum and under tailcoverts rusty red; sides of body 
brown; upper wingcoverts brown, the median ones with 
white tips; remiges brown, outer webs edged with rusty 
red, inner webs edged with pale rufous; inner secondaries 
rusty red with black shaftstripe, tailfeathers rusty red for 
the basal half, brown black in the distal half, tipped with 
rufous, the outer ones wholly rusty red, paler at the tip, 
with a blackish brown patch at the distal part of the 
inner web. Iris dark brown, bill and feet light horn-colour. 
Culmen 10.5, wing 76, tail 83, tarso-met. 17.5 mm. 
Type collected at Kairatoe, West Ceram, 4 April 1910. 
(Coll. van Dedem n°. 280). 
Two further specimens are collected, one (unsexed) at the 
same spot, the other, also an adult male, at Ahiolo at an 
elevation of about 700 m.; they agree with the described 
one. According to Bn. van Dedem the bird is common. 
Rhipidura cinerea Wallace. 
Three specimens, males, collected by Bn. van Dedem in 
West Ceram (near the coast and at about 700 m. above 
sea-level) agree with the description of Rhipidura cinerea 
Wallace (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, p. 477. — Cat. 
B. Br. M. IV, 1879, p. 328), with the only exception of 
the tail, which is not uniform in colour, but has the outer 
web of the outer feather more or less white; they therefore 
should belong to Zh. lenzi Blasius (Journ. f. Orn. 1883, 
p. 145; cf. also Salvadori Agg. Orn. Pap. I, 1890, p. 77; 
Biittikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. XV, 1893, p. 92; Meyer & 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV. 
