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with ashy, loral plumes white, extending above the fore part of 

 the eye; feathers in front of and round the eye and the ear- 

 coverts blackish, the latter with a white spot above them; chin 

 and Upper throat white, extending backwards along the cheeks; 

 rest of under surface of body light ochraceous bufl", the white 

 throat separated from the breast by a greyish-black band, the 

 sides of the breast washed with grey; thighs brown; under tail- 

 coverts white; axillaries dusky, edged with ochraceous buff; 

 under wing-coverts light ochraceous, dusky at base, the greater 

 series white; quills ashy brown below, lighter along the inner 

 web ; bill blackish, lighter at the base of the lower mandible. — 

 Length 5,8 inches, culmen 0,4, wing 2,9, tail 3,2. — Hab.: New 

 Hebrides. 



Rhipidura erythronota. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (1879), p. 337. 



Similar to R. layardi from Viti Levu but diifering in its 

 rufous back (not to be confounded with the young plumage of 

 R. layardi)\ wing-coverts brown, externally slightly washed with 

 rufous, some of the median and greater coverts with remains 

 of whitish tips; under surface of body as in R. layardi but 

 rather richer ochraceous, the black streaks few in number, 

 broader and not extending below the upper breast; under wing- 

 coverts rufous; tail as in R. layardi. Length 6,1 inches, 

 culmen 0,5, wing 3,2, tail 3,5, tarsus 0,85. 



Hab.: Fijigroup; Island of Vanua Levu. 



Rhipidura melanolaema. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (1879), p. 313. 



Above chocolate - brown, of an ochraceous cast, upper tail- 

 coverts more rufous; wing-coverts darker brown, the least and 

 median series with small, nearly obsolete, white tips ; tail-feathers 

 dark brown, tipped with white; a narrow frontal line, lores, fore 

 part of cheeks and ear- coverts black; frontal feathers brown, 

 tipped with white, extending backwards and forming a white 

 spot over the fore part of the eye ; hinder part of cheeks white ; 

 entire throat black; ehest scale - like, the feathers being black, 

 broadly margined with white; remainder of under surface below 

 white, flanks brown. Total length 5,9 inches, culmen 0,5, 

 wing 2,8, tail 3,3, tarsus 0,8. 



Hab.: Vanikoro, New Hebrides. 



Rhipidura ru/ilateralis. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (1879), p. 337. 



Resembling R. erythronota in having the upper surface 

 rufous-brown, but the head only a little duller than the back, 

 whereas in both species from the other Fiji Islands the head is 

 ashy and contrasts with the back. Underneath, the white of 

 the throat occupies also the fore neck and ehest, the dusky 

 spots being few in number, terminal and triangulär and not 



