202 Ant. Reichenow und Herman Schalow: 



continuing upon the abdomen, which is rufoiis like the flanks 

 and under wing-coverts; thighs rufous; under tail-coverts white. 



Total length 5,7 inches, culmen 0,5, wing 2,75, tail 3,1, 

 tarsus 0,75. 



Hab.: Island of Taviuni (Fiji group). 



Rhipidtira saturata. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (1879), p. 311. 



Similar to R. albiscapa of Australia, but rather larger and 

 everywhere much darker, the head blacker, the sides of the 

 neck and throat-collar deeper black and the entire under surface 

 richer orange-fulvous; tail blackish, the outer webs and tips of 

 the external feathers smoky brown, dull white towards the base 

 of the outer web of the outermost lectrix; wing - spots much 

 smaller. Total length 6.2 inches, culmen 0.35, wing 2,9, tail 3,55, 

 tarsus 0,65. 



Hab. : Tasmania. 



Siphia siimatrensis. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus, Vol. IV (1879), p. 451. 



Similar to S. banyumas, but having the underparts entirely 

 white, with the exception of the throat and fore neck. Length 

 5,2 inches, culmen 0,5, wing 2,7, tail 2,35, tarsus 0,6. 



Hab. : Sumatra. 



SymmorpMis (Lalage) affinis. 



Tristram, Ibis 1879, p. 440. 



(f S. affinis S. leucopygio, sed uropygio albo et colore 

 rectricis extimae distinguendus. 



Q mari similis quoad distributionem colorum, sed brunnea 

 nee nigra. 



Hab.: Solomon Islands. 



Terpsiphone erythroptera. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. Vol. IV (1879), p. 357. 



Above chestnut; crown of head and ehest, sides of head 

 and entire throat glossy steel-green ; fore neck and breast light 

 ashy grey, the rest of the under surface, including the under 

 tail-coverts, white; tibial plumes and sides of body washed with 

 pale rufous; under wing-coverts chestnut, with broad margins 

 of hoary white. Length 15,7 inches, culmen 0,8, wing 3,65, 

 tail 4,3. 



The female differs in not having the long tail, in being 

 duller white below and in having the throat dark gTey, with a 

 steel-green gloss. — Hab.: Senegambia. 



LANIIDAE. 



Pachycephala uniosnotnensis. 



T. Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova Vol. XV, 1879, 

 18. November, p. 46. 



