190 Richmond Eight New Birds from Sumatra. 



a shorter wing and tail, and a narrower black band across the fore-neck; 

 the abdcmen appears to be of a rather deeper blue. 



Length (in the flesh), 165 mm.; wing, 68; tail, 68; tarsus, 16; culmen, 

 12, (bill, from gape, 18). 



Malacopteron no tat urn sp. nov. 



Type. Adult male, No. 179,346, U. S. National Museum, Pulo Bang 

 Karu, Banjak Islands (west coast of Sumatra), January 17, 1902, Dr. W. 

 L. Abbott. 



Top of head, including nape, sooty black; lores, a narrow line round 

 the eye, cheeks, entire underparts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries, 

 white, the feathers of cheeks, throat and chest obscurely streaked with 

 dusky; ear-coverts, smoke gray; sides of neck and mantle brownish 

 drab-gray (each feather white at base), shading into wood brown on 

 back, rump and tertiaries; wing-coverts and edges of primaries and 

 secondaries rather grayer in color; upper tail-coverts deep cinnamon- 

 rufous, the feathers white at their bases; tail Prout's brown, the inner 

 webs of the feathers edged with pale rufous; wing feathers dusky, with 

 white edges on lower surface of inner webs. 



Length, 178 mm.; wing, 77; tail, 69; tarsus, 23.5; culmen, 17 (bill, 

 from gape, 21.5). 



This species is related to M. affine (Blyth.), but has a sooty blackcap 

 instead of a brownish black one, and there are other minor differences 

 of color. It differs from M. cantori (Moore) in having a distinct cap, in 

 lacking a decided malar stripe, etc. 



Stachyris banjakensis sp. nov. 



Type. Adult male, No. 179,344, U. S. National Museum, PuloTuanku, 

 Banjak Islands (west coast of Sumatra), January 24, 1902, Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott. 



Similar to S. maculata, from Borneo, but larger, and color of nape and 

 back grayer. 



Length, 200 mm.; wing, 87; tail, 71; tarsus, 27; culmen, 22 (bill, from 

 gape, 27). "Iris brownish yellow; feet, leaden; bill, black, leaden be 

 neath; naked skin on sides of neck pale blue." 



