540 oberholser: pycnonotine family of passeriformes 



cyanea from the Malay Peninsula, and must therefore stand as 

 Glauconympha cyanea crinigera. Its name criniger is a Latin 

 adjective (not a noun, as some authors apparently think) of 

 which the feminine nominative is crinigera, as above written. 

 Birds of this species from the Barussan Islands, off the western 

 coast of Sumatra, are found to differ subspecifically from the 

 typical race of the mainland, and as they are apparently unde- 

 scribed, may be called : 



Glauconympha cyanea megacyanea, subsp. nov. 



Subspeciftc characters. — Similar to Glauconympha cyanea cri- 

 nigera from Borneo and Sumatra, but larger; female with both 

 upper and lower parts darker, more bluish (less greenish). 



Description. — Type, adult female, No. 179254, U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 Pulo Tuanku, Banjak Islands, January 23, 1902; Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott. Upper surface dusky green blue No. I, 4 but the tips 

 of most of the feathers chessylite blue, and the interscapulum 

 with a more greenish shade, the upper tail-coverts dark chessy- 

 lite blue; tail brownish black, the middle pair of rectrices and 

 outer webs of the three adjoining pairs, dark green blue slate; 

 wings blackish fuscous, the lesser coverts dusky green blue No. 

 1, the broad edgings of median and greater coverts and ter- 

 tials, and narrow margins of primary coverts, secondaries, and 

 a few of the inner primaries, dark greenish blue like the inter- 

 scapulum; lores and nasal feathers between neutral gray and 

 deep neutral gray; sides of head and neck like the interscapu- 

 lum; throat greenish blue, between dark gobelin blue and terre 

 verte green; breast dull jouvence blue; abdomen dull, somewhat 

 greenish capri blue; crissum dark orient blue; lining of wing 

 fuscous, the outer feathers edged with greenish blue; "iris red; 

 bill and feet black." 



Measurements. — Male: 5 wing, 115-124 (average, 119.9) mm.; 

 tail, 82.5-91 (86.6); exposed culmen, 21-23.5 (22.3); height of 



4 The colors here mentioned are based on Mr. Ridgway's "Color Standards 

 and Color Nomenclature." 



5 Eleven specimens, from South Pagi Island, Nias Island, Pulo Mansalar. 

 the Batu and Banjak Islands, western Sumatra. 



