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Rhipidura albo-limbafa lorentzi nov. subsp. 



Coll. LOREXTZ : 



N°. 442. çf, Hellwig Mountains, 6 September 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Upper surface dull black, some of the feathers of the lovver back tipped with ' rufous ; 

 head deeper black; wings black with large white tips to the greater coverts and smaller white 

 tips to the médian ones; under wingcoverts black with white tips; tail black, the two outer 

 pairs of feathers with large white tips, the third pair with a very small white tip; a broad 

 superciliary stripe white ; lores and earcoverts black, among the latter some white feathers ; chin 

 dull black ; throat white ; chest deep black ; breast, vent and sides of body slaty grey, but 

 the feathers in the centre of the breast with broad dull white tips; under tailcoverts white. 

 Wing 83, tail 93, tarso-met. 18.5, culmen damaged. This new subspecies is allied to Rh. albo- 

 limbata Salvadori (= Rh. concinna De Vis?) and to Rh. auricularis De Vis, but may easily be 

 distinguished by its larger size and différent coloration of the back. 



Rhipidura tricolor (Vieillot). 



Muscicapa tricolor Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. XXI, 1818, p. 430. 

 Rhipidura tricolor, Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. M. IV, 1879, P- 339- 

 Sauloprocta melaletica, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1SS1, p. 48, 



Coll. LOREXTZ : 



N°. 139, çf, Noord River, 25 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 140, çf, Noord River, 25 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 154, Q, Noord River, 26 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 155, Q, Noord River, 26 May 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 259, Q, Noord River, 15 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 

 X°. 261, çf, Noord River, 16 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 

 N°. 459, (not sexed), Noord River, 8 July 1907. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



Rhipidura threnothorax S. Millier. 



Rhipidura threnothorax S. Mùller, Verh. Land- en Volkenk., 1839-44, p. 185. — Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Br. M. IV, 1879, p. 325. -- Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 54. — Buttikofer, Notes 

 Leyden Mus. XV, 1893, p. 86. 



Coll. LORENTZ: 



N°. 232, çf, Van Weel's kamp, 12 June 1907. Iris dark brown, bill black, lower mandible white 

 with black tip, feet black. 



Rhipidura hyperytlira G. R. Gray. 



Rhipidura hyperytlira G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858, p. 176. — Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 M. IV, 1879, P- 33 8 ' — Salvadori, Orn. Pap. II, 1881, p. 65. 



Coll. LORENTZ : 



N°. 423, çf, Resi kamp, 2 September 1907. Iris dark brown, upper mandible dark brown, 

 lower mandible dull yellow, feet pale brown. 



