146 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on Birds 



those from the Mimika, and have a similar wing-measure- 

 ment, 72-76"5 mm. 



All the adult birds killed in November and December are 

 in moult. 



Young birds are easily recognised by having the greater 

 secondary coverts tipped with whitish-buff, and the inner 

 quills narrowly margined with the same light colour. 



" The Mimika Flycatcher was only seen in the man- 

 grove-swamps on the coast, where it was tolerably common. 

 It had much the appearance and habits o£ the Common 

 Flycatcher."— a i:f.^.(y. 



*]V[yiagra sp. ind. an M. nitida Grould ? ; van Oort, p. 86 

 (1909). 



A female of this undetermined species was procured on 

 the Noord Eiver. 



Rhipidnra brachyrhyncha. 



Rhipidura hrachyrhyncha Schleg. ; Sharpe, Cat. iv. p. 31G 

 (1879) [female]. 



Rhipidura atra Salvad. ; Sharpe^ Cat. iv. p. 323 (1879) 

 [male] ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. x. p. 465 (1903), xx. 

 p. 495 (1913). 



Rhipidura meyeri Biittikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. xv. 

 pp. 81, 82, 113 (1893). 



a, h. ? et ? imm. Iwaka River, 3rd & 6th Feb, 1911. 

 [Nos.984, 1004, C.H.B. G.'] 



c. S vix ad. Camp 3, Utakwa River, 2500 ft., 4th Dec. 

 1912. [C.B.K.I 



d-h. S ? . Camp 6 A, Utakwa River, 2900 ft,, 6th-18th 

 Jan. 1913. [C.B.K.'] 



i. ? , Camp 6 c, Utakwa River, 5500 ft,, 25th Feb. 1913. 

 [C.B.K.-] 



Female. Iris brown ; upper mandible sooty, lower pale 

 horn -colour ; feet ash-colour. 



Immature female. As above, but with the tip of the lower 

 mandible dusky. 



Both Sharpe in the Catalogue and Count Salvadori (0, P, 

 ii. p. 72) have, in my opinion, correctly identified R. atra 



