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from Maar in the Ceram-laut group evidently belongs to the 
new form, and so do apparently three specimens from Pulo 
Babi in the Aru group. 
Type: ¢ from Kilsoein, Koer group, 2.vii. 1892. H. Kiihn 
col!., No. 1287 (Tring Museum). 
Ta ‘The Ibis,’ Suppl. 2, p. 149 (1915), Mr. Ogilvie-Grant 
named a Rhipidura from Rendova in the Solomon Islands 
Rhipidura harterti, but, as Mathews, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 319 
(1912), had already named a “Rhipidura flabellifera harterti,” 
Mr. Ogilvie-Grant’s name cannot be used, and as the Rendova 
bird is, in my opinion, undoubtedly a subspecies of Rhipidura 
rufifrons (Lath.) from Australia, I hereby call it 
Rhipidura rufifrons granti, nom. nov. 
The differences from rubrofrontata pointed out by 
Mr. Ogilvie-Grant are quite conspicuous. We had failed 
to notice them, as we had no topotypical specimens of 
rubrofrontata from Guadalcanar. I accept Mr. Grant’s 
diagnosis, and designate as the type of R. r. granti a male 
from Rendova, 27.11.1904, No. A. 1381, A.S. Meek coll., in 
the Tring Museum. 
The wings of R.r. granti measure: 12 ¢ ¢ 74-78,7 2 2 
68°5-72 mm. 
Rendova, Gizo, Vella Lavella, and Kulambangra Islands, 
é 
Rhipidura rufifrons commoda, subsp. nov. 
Specimens from Bougainville, again, differ from granti in 
having the ear-coverts brown as in #. 7. rubrofrontata, and 
in being much smaller. They differ from R.r. rubrofrontata 
‘in having nearly the basal half of the middle tail-feathers 
rufous as in granti. The rufous colour extends also further 
up the back. The colour of the back and rump is also much 
darker in rubrofrontata. Wings: 4 ¢ ¢ 68-70'5,3 9 2 64— 
65 mm. 
Bougainville. Two specimens from Choiseul appear to be 
inseparable from the Bougainville ones. 
Type: ¢ ad. Bougainville, 26.xii.1907. No. 3669, 
A. S. Meek coll. 
