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20. Hypothymis puella blasii snbsp. nov. 



A series of 14 skins from Sula Besi ami Snla Mangoli are at a glance 

 distinguished from Hypothymis puella puella oi' C'elebes, of which I have 22 

 before me, by their much deeper aziire-blue colour on the entire upper surface as 

 well as on the throat and fore-neck. This difference has alread}- been noticed 

 by Sharpe (of. Cat. ]i. Brit. Mm. IV. \>. 277). It is very constant. Judging 

 from two poor native-made skins from Peling and Banggai, the birds inhabiting 

 tliese islands belong also to //. p. bla.w. They certainly are not //. pm-lln, puidla. 

 This subspecies is named after Prof. Wilhelm Blasius, who wrote several very 

 careful articles on the birds of Celebes, and first drew attention to the differences 

 of Celebensian Cinnyris frenata. 



The iris of Hyjiothymis puella l/lasii is " dark brown ; feet dark slaty blue ; the 

 bill blue, with black tip and nostrils." 



21. Rhinomyias colonus sp. nov. 



(J ad. Above rufous brown, more olive on the head, and with the forehead 

 indistinctly showing some of the pale basal shaft-stripes. Upper tail-coverts 

 rufous. Wings dark brown, with rufous outer webs and narrow buff borders to 

 the inner webs, innermost secondaries rufous on lioth webs. Rectrices bright rnfons. 

 Sides of the head pale brown, lores whitish. Throat and middle of abdomen whitish. 

 Breast and sides of body light brown. Under tail-coverts pale rusty buff. " Iris 

 brown ; feet very pale purplish, claws darker : bill dull brown, culmen deep brown." 

 L. t. ca. 170 mm., a. 77 — 78, c. 65 — 67, t. 18, r. (from end of feathering) 11 mm., 

 culm, (from base of forehead) is-o mm. ? ad. Like the male, but smaller, wing 

 only about 73 mm., and darker below. The darker colour below seems to be also 

 due to immaturity. 



Doherty collected this most interesting new species in Sula Mangoli and Sula 

 Besi. It is not without some hesitation that I place it in the genus Rhinomyias, for 

 its tail is rather long, its bill somewhat slenderer than in most species of that genus ; 

 the distribution too does not extend so far east to our knowledge, but there is no 

 other genus into which it fits. Rhinomyias insii/nis Grant also differs somewhat from 

 other species of the genus. 



22. Monarcha inornatus (Garn.). 

 Common in Sula Besi and Sula Mangoli. 



23. Pachycephala lineolata Wall. 



Two skins from Sula Besi, both evidently adult birds, one marked J, the other 

 ? , both with brown iris, feet and bill blackish. Both are ashy grey above, white 

 below, with a faint buff tinge in the middle of the abdomen, flanks somewhat 

 brownish, breast distinctly washed with pale brownish grey in the nurle, less 

 distinctly in the J emale. Quills deep blackish brown, with jiale ashy outer edges 

 and buff inner borders. 



There is some difficulty about the name which this bird should bear. Messrs. 

 Salvador! (Orn. Papuas. II. p. 22'.») and Gadow {Cat. B. Bnt. Mus. VIII. j). 217) 

 call it F. qriseonota (iray. His tyjie, however, seems \o be an immature bird, and 

 its locality is donbtl'til. In iidditinn to this it seems very probable tlial the ditfereut 



