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streaked with citrine drab; lower breast between primrose yellow and col- 

 onial buff; abdomen marguerite yellow; sides and flanks, citrine drab; 

 lower tail-coverts dull chamois, the centers of the feathers light brownish 

 olive; thighs citrine drab; lining of wing colonial buff; "iris gray; upper 

 mandible dark horn brown; lower mandible pale leaden ; feet fleshy brown." 



Measurements of type. — Total length (in flesh) 94 mm.;* wing, 90; 

 tail, 81; exposed culmen, 16; tarsus, 19; middle toe without claw, 12.5. 



Geographic distribution. — Anamba Islands to Sumatra. 



Remarks. — This new race is similar also to Iole olivacea charlottae from 

 Borneo t, but is less rufescent and somewhat paler above, as well as less 

 rufescent and less deeply yellowish below. Birds from Sumatra appear 

 to be identical with Iole olivacea crypta, though they vary somewhat indi- 

 vidually. 



•Measured by the collector. 



\Criniger charlottae Finsch. Journ. f. Ornith., XV, No. 1, January, 1867, p. 19 

 (Borneo). 



