Vol. 31, pp. 197-198 December 30, 1918 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW IOLE FROM THE ANAMBA 



ISLANDS. 



BY HARRY C. OBERHOLSER. 



A specimen of Iole olivacea from the Anamba Islands has 

 recently come to light in the collection of the United States 

 National Museum. When the writer reported on the collection 

 made by Dr. W. L. Abbott on these islands in 1899* this parti- 

 cular bird was not to be found. It adds a genus as well as a 

 species to the fauna of the Anamba group, making altogether 

 57 species and subspecies of birds now known from this archi- 

 pelago. 



Iole olivacea crypta, subsp. nov. 



Chars, subsp. — Similar to Iole olivacea olivacea, from the Malay Penin- 

 sula, but upper parts darker. 



Description— Type, adult male, No. 171,079, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Pulo 

 Jimaja, Anamba Islands, South China Sea, September 22, 1899; Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott. Pileum olive brown, slightly and obscurely streaked with a darker 

 shade; remaining upper surface between olive and brownish olive, rather 

 lighter and more rufescent on the rump, and passing on the upper tail- 

 coverts into a brown between Prout's brown and mummy brown; tail 

 olive brown, the outer margins of the feathers olivaceous; wings fuscous, 

 the inner edges of secondaries and of the basal portion of the primaries 

 dull cartridge buff, the edgings of the outer webs of primaries and secon- 

 daries, together with those of the tertials and greater wing-coverts, rather 

 light brownish olive, the median and lesser wing-coverts like the back; 

 lores and a very narrow superciliary stripe, olive buff; cheeks and auric- 

 ulars, between dark olive buff and citrine drab; a narrow postocular 

 stripe olive brown; a horizontal stripe above the last, of the same color 

 as the cheeks, but duller and darker; sides of the neck like the back; chin 

 and throat rather yellowish deep olive buff; jugulum and upper breast, 

 between deep olive buff and dark olive buff, broadly, though obscurely, 



• Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 98, June 30, 1917, pp. 1-75. 



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