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First described fiora a single male from Kulambangra 

 without the lateral pair of tail-feathers and some albinistic 

 white feathers on the head. The -vviiig measured 96*7 ram. 

 (not quite 98 as originally stated !). Afterwards we received 

 three specimens from Rendova with wings only 88-89 mm. 

 These three birds also have a whitish line along the shaft 

 near the tip of the outermost pair of rectrices, which are 

 wanting in the type of Rh. albina. Possibly they belong 

 to another smaller subspecies, but without more specimens 

 from Kulambangra it would be hazardous to separate them. 



EMpidura cockerelli lavellse, subsp. nov. 



Breast as in Rh. c. cockerelli. Upperside much more 

 greyish slate-colour, not so blackish ; white edges to inner 

 secondaries less wide, occupying less than or at the utmost 

 half the inner web. Outer pair of rectrices with a small 

 whitish spot near the tip. Wings 84-90 mm. 



Type : No. 3902, A. S. Meek Coll., 1. iii. 1908. 



Hab. Vella Lavella Island, Western Solomon Islands. 



Dr. E. Hartekt sent the following description of a new 

 race of Paradise Flycatcher : — 



The distribution of Tchitrea afjUnis or T. paradisi affinis 

 has been accepted as reacliing from the foot of the Eastern 

 Himalayas through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and 

 Borneo. Without being able to go into further details, 

 I can say with certainty that this is not quite correct, the 

 Bornean form differing from that of Assam, Burmah, and 

 the Malay Peninsula in the following points : — The bill is 

 considerably larger, especially deeper and wider at base ; in 

 the adult male the metallic-blue colour of the head is deeper 

 and of a more purplish tinge. The length of the tail is very 

 variable, but in India and the Malay Peninsula it appears 

 not to reach the tremendous length found in Bornean 

 examples, i. e. 459 ram. The shafts in the latter are black 

 or blaqkish quite or nearly to the end, while in 1. paradisi 

 affinis they are, as a rule, white for their terminal third and 

 only blackish again for 5 or 7 mm. before the tip. I propose 

 to call the Bornean form 



