( 470) 



■i-^. Culicicapa ceylonensis sejuncta Hart. 



(See Nov. Zool. III. p. 5^4, uo. 31, sid Kominc ('. ceylonensis, IV. p. 526.) 

 Two mnles from Waingapo. " Iris brown ; bill dark brown, basal half of 

 mandible paler ; legs sienna-brown." 



33. Rhipidura semicollaris Mull. & Sclileg. 



(Vol. III. p. 585, sub )i07nine Rh. cclebensis sumhensig.) 



I find now that the width of the black collar differs a little inJividaally, and 

 that the wider black collar 1 thought was present in the Sumba specimens is due 

 to preparation. The wings of the Snmba skins collected by Everett measure : 

 6S 70 — 75, ? ? 08 — 70 mm. I cannot, therefore, see any reason to keep the 

 Sumba skins separate from Rh. semicollaris. 



34. Tei-psiphone fioris sumbaensis A. B. Meyer (III. p. 585, IV. p. 520). 



As I have said before, T.Jlorisfloris and T.Jloris sumbaensis are best separated 

 subspecifically onl}-. It is, on the other hand, jiossible to distinguish the vwleH in 

 nearly all cases. The wing of T.Jloris from Flores, Sambawa, and Alor measures 

 (adult 7nales only measured) 95 — 100 mm., that of Snmba birds (adnlt inales only) 

 101 — 104 mm. The feathers of the back in T.Jloris jiori.n have all black shafts in all 

 ages, the secondaries black lines along the shafts, while these characters are only to be 

 found in younger individuals of T.Jloris SKmljdrnsi.f, the perfectly adnlt males having 

 no black sluifts on the feathers of the back, and only the shaft itself of the secondaries 

 narrowly black along the middle. The remiges have wider black tips in T. Jioi-is 

 Jloris. In both forms the perfectly adult males liave the tips of the shafts of the 

 rectrices white, and in both forms the blackisli edges of the rectrices disappear with 

 age. Everett collected a fine series near Waingapo. 



35. Myiagra rufigula Wall. (III. p. 585). 

 Both sexes from 'Waingapo. 



30. Hirundo javanica Sparnn. 

 Two males, AVaingapo, September. 



37. Hirundo striolata (Temm. * Schleg.). 

 S ad. AVaingapo, September. 



38. Pitta maria Hart. (III. p. 585). 



The Sumba Pitta has been described from a single skin given to Mr, Doherty 

 by Miss Maria de Korte, who had received it alive from the interior of Sumba. 

 The ne.xt record I was able to give was the occurrence of a male in South Flores. 

 "When recording this (Nov. ZooL. IV. p. 520) I could not help feeling somewhat 

 uncertain about this locality, and I should not have mentioned it at all if I had not 

 known Mr. Everett's care and trustworthiness. Mr. Everett, after reading my note, 

 told me himself that the specimen was brought in by his men in Flores, and that 

 he knew it to be P. maria before it had been skinned. Ho did not think it was 

 of regular oicurrenci' in Flores, but considering the small distance from Sumba 



