( y8o ) 



o~!. Rhipidura celebensis sixmbeusis sulis|i. nuv. 



Tlii-ee skins, all markuil "cf ," IVciiu .Siimba diftcr from Rh. celeben.sis Jiuttik. 

 IVoiu Jlakassai- (?), DjamiJea, and Kalao (cf. Buttik., .Xotes Lc'/Jen }his. XV. IsDl!, 

 p. T'J : (inti-(i, p. 173), in deckletlly longer wings and generall}' larger si/.e. I cannot 

 with conlidence state any constant diilerence in colonr, bnt the three skins from 

 tSnmba are not very good. AVhile the wings of the tyjic in the licydcn Museinn 

 measure 66 mm., and those of my four skins from Djampca and Kalao (ifi, 67, and 

 68 mm., those from Sumba have wings of 7'^ iind 7:! mm. Tlicir tails measures 

 90 — 98 mm., against about so. 



:>3. Terpsiphoue sumbaensis A. B. Meyer. 



T. s., Meyer in ././'. (J. 18'.I4, pp. im, 'Jo. 



7'. _/?oris (partim), Bllttikofer in AVeber's Jic/.si; Band II f. Oniith. Samml. 

 PI.. 203—298 (1893). 



Biittikofer separated from 7'. ujjinis a series of specimens from Sanibawu, 

 Flores, Sumba, and Ombay under the name 'I'.Jloris, tyf.e from Flores. A. B. 

 Meyer separated again 2\ sumkic/in/'n from Sumba. Doherty sent a fair series 

 of the latter. They are large birds, and have nothing to do with 7'. ajlhtig. In 

 ver\- old males the shafts of the rectrices are white towards the tij.s and they show 

 no black margins at all, while younger males have the shafts of the rectrices quite 

 black and black edges to all the rectrices. Young males have also much more black 

 on the remiges. Wings of adult male.s 100 — 103 mm., of females about 95. 

 Having seen no specimens from Flores, I cannot judge myself of the differences 

 between T.jloris and T. sumbaensis, which seem to be consj.icuous, though slight. 



34. Myiagra rufigula AVall. 



A series of both sexes. In some the beak is about one millimetre broader at 

 base than in our specimens from Djampea and Kalao, but there is no other difference 

 between them. " The iris is dark brown ; feet black : maxilla b)ai:k ; mandible slaty 

 blue with black tip." 



*3.j. Hirundo rustica guttwralis (8cop.). 

 Two females. " Iris dark brown ; beak Ijlack ; gape 3'ellowish ; feet black." 



30. Pitta maria Hartert. 



l89G. J', m., Hartert in Bui/, li. 0. C. V. p. 47. 



This Pitta has been compai'cd by me, I.e., witli /•'. irena, but perhaps looks 

 more like P. m/orsi. It agrees with that latter species in its narrow brownish 

 stripes ou the sides of the crown, which pass into a very pale bine behind, also in 

 having a smaller white speculum in tlie wing, and the deep brown underside. It 

 differs, however, from P. vif/oisi in having the whole cliin and throat black, this 

 colour rnnning downwards in a point. The red middle line ou the abdomen is not 

 mixed with black. From /■'. irciia it differs in its dee]ier brown underside, its small 

 white speculum in the wing (only a small concealed white sj)ot on the fifth qnilj I), 

 the much greater extension ol' the black throat, and the red ou the middle of the 

 abdomen not being mixed with hlack. (Julmeu 23 mm. ; wing 10!); tarsus 3.j-(l. 



One skin, not sexed, from the iutcrior of Sumba. 



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