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Fantail.
Rhipidura spilodera verreauxi Marie
Range.- New Caledonia, Lifu.
Description.- A fantail with large triangular spots on the feathers of the breast, wing-coverts with white tips, belly buffy, white edges of outer tail-feathers gradually merging into the grayish centers; back washed with rufous.
Habitat.- Forest
Collecting.- No specimen from Lifu in any collection, so far as I know, never compared with verreauxi from New Caledonia. Series desirable.
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