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86. Macropygia amboinensis cinereiceps Tristr. 



D'Entrecasteaux Islands and British New Gninea. 



The bars on the chest are very little marked, or quite obsolete ; the forehead iu 

 the adult males pale ashy-grey or whitish, in yonuger ones rusty Iraff. 



We have at present the following specimens : — 



1 S fully ad. Fergussou Island (A. S. Meek coll.) (Nov. Zool. III. p. 249). 



1 S not fully ad., crown moulting, Goodenough Island (A. S. Meek coll.). 

 " Iris with an inner pale blue ring, a median black and an outer light red ring ; feet 

 dark smoky red, bill dark brown." 



1 S ad. Milne Bay (A. S. Meek coll.). 



1 ? ad., 1 ? juv. Fergnsson Island (A. S. Meek coll.). 



We have, besides these specimens, examined the types (several of them are 

 marked as types) of (Jonnt Salvadori's Macropygia (johliei in the British Museum, 

 and we found the males to be less mature birds than what is called M. cinereiceps in 

 the same Museum. We have a specimen moulting from the rnsty-buff forehead 

 of the so-called '■'■ yohhei" into the greyish one of cinereiceps ; therefore M. goldiei 

 is clearly a synonym of J/, amboinensis cinereicejis. 



87. Macropygia amboinensis cunctata Hart. 



Differs from M. amboinensis cinereiceps in having the chest much darker, more 

 brownish and distinctly barred ; the wing is longer (cf. Nov. Zool. VI., pp. 83, 214). 

 Louisiade Islands. We have : — 



1 $ ad., 1 ? , 2 juv. Rossell Island (tyi)e) (A. S. Meek coll.). 

 1 S Sudest Island (A. S. Meek coll.). 

 3 fairly adult males, (S/emales and young birds from St. Aignan (A. S. Meek coll.). 



88. Macropygia ruficeps ruficeps Gray. 



With this form we have come to a small group which we regard as one species 

 separable into three subspecies. 



The typical ruficeps inhabits the Greater Sunda Islands (Java, Sumatra, 

 Borneo), and the Malay Peninsula. 



We have the following specimens : — 



3 c?, 5 ?, 1 S pull. Kina Balu, Borneo (John Whitehead and A. Everett coll.). 



4 ? , 2 (? jun. Padangsche Bovenlanden, Sumatra. 



1 S immature, Gunong Ijau, Perak, 4000 feet (A. L. Butler coll.). 

 We are sadly in want of perfectly adult males, and our series is not snfficient 

 to say if those from the various islands differ. 



89. Macropygia ruficeps assimilis Hume. 



This is a mucji larger race, which replaces the typical rnfircjis iu Tenasserim 

 and Burma. 



We have 1 S ad., Thoungyeen Valley, Tenasserim (Col. Bingham coll.). 

 ? ad., Salwcen Hills, 2000 ft. (Col. Bingham coll.). 



9n. Macropygia ruficeps orientalis Hart. 

 Also larger, mncii darker below, especially on the under tail-cororts, and the 

 females and young birds almost without black spots on the chest. Heiilaces the 



