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Female (one specimen) wing 83.5; tail 67.0; exposed culmen 20.5; 

 tarsus 31.0. 



Range. — Whitsunday and Akiaki Islands, Paumotu Islands. 



Remarks. — A male was taken on Akiaki, 30 October, and three 

 males and one female on Whitsunday Atoll 31 October. The dis- 

 tinctly yellow cast of the under parts serves to distinguish this form 

 from the other subspecies of Conopoderas atijpha at present known. 

 There is available only one bird from Akiaki and examination of more 

 material will show without doubt that birds from this island are 

 readily separable from those from Whitsunday. The single specimen 

 at hand, a male, differs from birds from Whitsunday in being distinctly 

 more buffy below, especially on the lower tail coverts. In addition 

 it has the rump paler and the tail more extensively tipped with white. 



66. Conopoderas atypha crypta, subsp. nov. 



Characters. — Similar to Conopoderas atypha atypha but distinctly 

 grayer above, and whiter, less buffy, below. 



f?/p6!.— U. S.N. M. 212,507. Male. Polynesia: Paumotu Islands ; 

 Makemo, 20 October, 1899. C. H. Townsend. 



Description. — Crown, hind neck, back, and scapulars hair-brown, 

 the feathers with paler tips and edgings; riimp dull avellaneous; 

 upper tail coverts drab; rectrices, remiges, and greater wing coverts 

 olive-brown; rectrices with slightly indicated pale margins, the four 

 outer pairs tipped with whitish; lesser and middle wing coverts 

 drab, margined indistinctly with pale drab-gray; primaries and 

 secondaries margined with pale drab-gTay; spot on lower eyelid and 

 superciliary stripe above eye ivory-yellow, the superciliary more or 

 less obscure anteriorly; loral feathers fuscous with pale tips; auri- 

 cular region between deep and dark olive-buff, becoming dark olive- 

 buff posteriorly; throat and breast whitish washed with marguerite- 

 yellow; this color becoming gradually buffy posteriorly until the 

 under tail coverts are light buflF; bend of wing, under wing coverts, 

 sides and flanks light buff. 



Measurements. — Males (three specimens) wing 89.5-90.0 (89.8); 

 tail 77.0-80.0 (78.1); exposed culmen 20.2-21.0 (20.5); tarsus 30.0- 

 31.0 (30.6). 



Range. — Makemo Island, Paumotu Islands. 



Remarks. — Three males, one specimen with sex not indicated, and 

 two birds preserved in alcohol, were secured on Makemo, 20 October. 



