A Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand. 441 



Genus KHIPIDURA. 

 Rhipidura Vigors & Horsfield, Trans, Linn. Soc. Lond. 

 vol. XV. 1826, p. 24G. 



Type (by subsequent designation) : R.fiahellifera (Gmelin). 



Rhipidura flabellifera flabellifera (Gmelin). South Island 

 Pied Fantail. 

 Muscicapa flabeUifera Gmelin, Syst. Nat. ] 789, p. 943 : 

 Dusky Sound, South Island. 



Synonyms : — 



3h(scicapa ventilahrum For.?ter, Descr. Anim. ed. Licht. 1844, 



p. 86 : Dusky Souud, Soutli Island. 

 Hhipidura jlabellifera Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 126 (part.). 



Range : — South Island (breeding). 



Rhipidura flabeUifera kempi, subsp. n. North Island Pied 

 Fantail. 

 Synonym : — 



Rhipidura Jlabellifera Buller, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 12G (part.). 



Range: — North Island (breeding). 



Note : — R. jlabellifera kempi is easily differentiated by the 

 much lighter coloration of the lower surface and by the 

 more extensive dark coloration of the tail-feathers ; this 

 occupies almost the whole of the outer web save on the two 

 central feathers and the outside pair. Type in the British 

 Museum. 



Rhipidura flabeUifera penitus Bangs. Chatham Islands^ Pied 

 Fantail. 



Rhipidicra flabeUifera penitus Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Wash. vol. xxiv. 1911, p. 41 : Chatham Islands. 



Range; — Chatham Islands (breeding). 



Rhipidura fuliginosa (Sparrman). Black Fantail. 



Muscicapa fuliginosa Sparrman, Museum Carlson, fasc. ii. 

 1787, no, xlvii. : Soutli Island. 

 Synonyms : — 



Muscicapa desei-ti Gmelin, Syst. Nat. J 789, p. 949 : new name for 



M. fuliginosa Sparrman. 

 Rhipidura melanura Gray in DiefFenbach's Travels in New 

 Zealand, vol. ii. 1843, p. 190 : Cook's Straits. 



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