370 THE OBUISE OF THE ' CUEAQOA.' 



PLATE IX. 



BHIPIDUBA SPILODEEA. 



(Rhipidura spilodera, G. R. Gr. Ann. and Mag. of N. H. 1870, p. 330.) 



Fuscous black ; eyebrows white ; throat and breast white, each 

 feather triangularly marked in the middle with black ; abdomen 

 pale fulvous white ; qiuUs dark fuscous black ; tail fuscous black, 

 with the tips and inner margins more or less white. 



Length 7", wings 3", bill 7'", tarsi 12'". 



' Eyes black. Contents of stomach, insects. Female.' 



This bird, of which there is only one example, was obtained at 

 Vanua Lava, Banks' Group. It is like Rhipidura pectoralis, 

 Homb. & Jacq., of the island of Vanikoro ; but the spots on the 

 breast extend up to the chin. 



