RHIPIDURA CINEREA. 63 
Wiglesworth, Birds Celebes, I, 1898, p. 381). The amount of 
white on the outer web of the outer tailfeather varies much 
in the three specimens, and is even not the same on both 
feathers in the same bird. One of the specimens has on the left 
tailfeather the greatest amount of white, even a large white 
spot at the end of the inner web, whereas the white colour 
on the outer web of the right tailfeather is obsolete and 
wanting on the inner web. We have in the Leyden Museum 
two specimens from Ceram and one from Amboina, in 
which there is also a variation in the amount of white 
on the outer tailfeathers. The length of wing in the six 
specimens varies from 86 to 90 mm., that of the tail 
from 85 to 88 mm. The measurements given by Sharpe 
for the type of cinerea are: wing 3.3 inches (82.5 mm.) 
and tail 3.4 inches (85 mm.); those given by Blasius for 
the type of lenzi are: wing 93 mm, tail 90 mm. It seems 
to me that the birds with white on the outer tailfeathers 
are the same as the bird with uniform tail and are to be 
called Rhipidura cinerea Wallace; also Count Salvadori in 
the Aggiunte Orn. Pap. p. 78 hangs over to this opinion. 
Myzomela elisabethae nov. form. 
Ad. ©. Head, back, rump, upper tailcoverts, breast and 
upper vent scarlet; lores, wings, tail, sides of body, lower 
vent and under tailcoverts black; outer webs of remiges 
margined with olive; under wingcoverts and margins of 
the inner webs of the remiges white. Iris dark brown, 
bill and feet black, Culmen 13, wing 53, tail 32, tarso- 
met. 13.5 mm. 
Differs from Myzomela wakoloensis Forbes (Proc. Zool. 
Soc. London, 1883, p. 116) of Boeroe in having the smaller 
upper wingcoverts entirely black. 
Type collected at Wailakoné, West Ceram (+ 700 m.), 
27 May 1910. (Coll. van Dedem n°. 401). 
I have the honour to name this bird after Mrs. Elisabeth 
Baroness van Dedem. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXIV. 
