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MUSOICAPIDiE. 
Rhipidura melanura Gray, in Dieffenbach’e Travels in New Zealand, vol. ii. 
P* 190, 1843, mid-Jan.: Cook’s Straits, New Zealand. 
Rhipidura tristis Pucheran, Voy. Pole Sud, Zool. vol. iii. p. 76, pi. 2. fig. 5, Oct. 
10th, 1853 : Otago, South Island. 
Distr. —New Zealand (South Island, only a recent settler in the 
North Island). 
Rhipidura kubaryi Finsch. (4-314.) Caroline Island Fantail. 
Rhipidura hubary i Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1875, p. 644: 
Ponapg. (Fig. Journ. Mus. God., Bd. xii. pi. 2. fig. 2.) 
Distr. —Caroline Islands. 
Rhipidura lepida H. & F. (4-322.) Pelew Island Fantail. 
Rhipidura lepida Hartlaub & Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1868, 
p. 6 : Pelew Islands. (Fig. Mus. God. viii. pi. 4. tigs. 2 & 3.) 
Distr .— Pelew Islands. 
Rhipidura montana Mathews. Mountain-Fan tail. 
Rhipidura montana Mathews, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. xlviii. p. 92, 
April 24th, 1928: Mt. Albert Edward, S.E. New Guinea. 
Distr. — S.E. New Guinea. 
Rhipidura devisi North. Southern Fantail. 
Rhipidura devisi North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. xxii. p. 444, 
1897 : South-East New Guinea (new name of Rhipidura albi - 
cauda De Vis (not North, 1895), Ibis, 1897, p. 375). 1 
Distr .— New Guinea. 
Rhipidura hyperythra Gray. Reddish Fantail. 
Distr. —New Guinea and Aru Islands. 
Rhipidura hyperythra hyperythra Gray. (4-338.) 
Rhipidura hyperythra Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1858, p. 176: 
Aru Islands. (Fig. Gould, N. G. ii. pi. 33.) 
Distr. —Aru Islands. 
Rhipidura hyperythra mulleri Meyer. (4-338.) 
Rhipidura mulleri Meyer, Sitzungsber. K. Ak. Wiss. Wien, vol. Ixix. 
p. 502, 1874: Lobo, New Guinea (new name for R. rufiventris 
Muller, not Vieillot). 
Distr. —New Guinea (SAW)* 
Rhipidura hyperythra castaneothorax Rams. 
Rhipidura castaneothorax Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. vol. iii. 
p. 270, 1879: Goldie River, New Guinea. 
Distr. —New Guinea (S.E.). 
