28 CATALOGUE OF BIROS FROM NEW GUINEA. 



TCHITREA GAIMARDI. 



Muscicapa (Tchitrea) Gaimardi, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 386. 

 Hab. New Guinea (Lesson). 



Rhipidura threnothorax. 



Rhipidura threnothorax, Mull. & Schl. Verh. Ethn. p. 185. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo {Mutter). 



Rhipidura rufiventris. 



Rhipidura rufiventris, Mull. & Schl. Verh. Ethn. p. 185. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo (Mutter). 



Rhipidura hyperythra. 



Rhipidura hyperythra, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 176. 



Plumbeous ; head and throat black ; quills and tail fuscous black, 

 margined with plumbeous ; spot at' the base of lower mandible, 

 which advances into two lines, one on each sid.e of the throat, and 

 the tips of the wing-coverts and tail-feathers white ; breast and ab- 

 domen rusty red ; bill black, lower mandible yellow ; feet dusky olive. 



Length 6" 3'" ; wings 2" 9'"- ' 



Hab. Aru Islands (Wallace). 



This may be the R. rufiventris, Mull. 1 



Rhipidura gularis. 



Rhipidura ffularis, Mull. & Schl. Verh. Ethn. p. 185. 

 Hab. New Guinea ; Lobo, River Oetanata, and P. Mariannes 

 Straits (Mutter). 



Rhipidura assimilis. 



Rhipidura assimilis, # G . R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 176. 



Closely allied to R. isura, Gould (B. of'Austr. ii. pi. 85), but 

 rather larger, with the breast paler ; under wing-coverts buffy white, 

 and the outer tail-feather with less white than in the Australian 

 specimens. 



a. Ke Island. Procured from Mr. Wallace. 



Rhipidura maculipennis. 



Rhipidura maculipennis, G. R. Gray, Proc. Z. S. 1858, p. 176. 



(S . Deep black ; with a line from nostrils passing above the eyes, 

 and a broad line proceeding from the base of the bill on each side of 

 the throat, the tips of the feathers of breast, of tail, of the upper 

 and under wing-coverts, white. 



5 . Brownish black ; but similarly marked in other respects with 

 white ; upper mandible and feet black, lower white. 



Length 8" 8'" ; wings 3" 2'". 



a, b. Aru Islands. Procured from Mr. "Wallace. 



