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 87. Petrochelidon nigricans (Vieillot). 



llirumh) nitirimnx Vieillot, yum-. Dili. tVHisl. Xnl. xiv. p. 523 (1817: New Holland). 



IS, 1 J ? Roma, August lUn:.'. (Nos. 5366, 5383.) "Iris, feet ami bill 

 blaekisL."' 



MUSCICAPIDAE. 

 88. Miiscicapa griseisticta (Swinh.). 



Ilfiiiiihelidnii ririsehtictfi Swinhue, /'">■ W'A p. ?>'M) (China : terra typiea .\moy). 

 1 ?, Wetter, 2L'. x. 1902. (No. 5838.) 

 1 ?, Letti, 10. xi. 1002. (Xo. .5080.) 



80. Cyornis hyacinthina kuhni snlispec. nnv. 



[Miisrirnpa liijdi-inlhinu Temminck, PI. Oil. xxx. (Timor, Mus. Paris).] 

 C'l/in-iiis hi/ni liilhimi Finscb, Xnlfs Lri/iJeii Mim. .vxii. p. 2t)l (Wetter — errore). 



c? like the S of C /n/ae. hjamnthina, but the forehead and feathers above the 

 eye of a very different colour : not of a bright blue with a slight juirjilish tinge, 

 but light sky-blue with an almost whitish tinge ; ear-coverts lighter, more blue, 

 wing-coverts and outer edges of quills also different, of a much lighter blue : 

 abdomen a shade darker rufous cinnamon. ? like that of C. hi/ar. Iii/aciiith>»a, 

 but lines across forehead and lores to above the middle of the eye rufous-cinnamon 

 like the underside, which is a shade darker than in the Timor form. Dimensions 

 similar. 



Type 6 No. 5467, Wetter, 24. i.x. 1002. Kiihn coll. (Mus. Tring). 



Mr. Kiihn, who discovered this fine subspecies, and in whose honour it is 

 named, sent 



SS, 7 ? ?, Wetter, September, October 19o2. (Nos. .>4f)7, 5408, .5.574— 

 5570, 5660, 5670, 5736, 5737, seven without numbers.) 



c? ?. " Iris dark coffee-brown (blackish brown), bill black, feet blackish." 



This is a very pretty discovery, upon which Mr. Kiihn may be congratulated. 

 To the majority of ornithologists it will still be a "good species," but from a 

 modern point of view it is a " subspecies." Dr. Finsch noticed the cinnamon-rufou-i 

 forehead and lores, but he could not separate this form, as he had only two young 

 birds from \Vetter. The true li>/nciiifliiii'i is only found on Timor and Semao. 



oo. Muscicapula melanoleuca westermanni Sharjic. 



[Mnmicuimla mchninhwa Blytl), Join-n. As. Soc. Beitg. xii. p. 400 (1843: "Xepaul, Darjeeling").] 

 Musch-iii>iihi in'Hlrrmiinm Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 270 (Perak). 



(Cf Hartert, iVof. Zool. 1902. p. 551.) 



4 cJ(?, 1 ? , Wetter, October 1902. (Nos. 5646, 5832—5834, 5876.) 



01. Gerygone everetti wetterensis Finsch. 



Genjgune wetlerensis Finsch, Notes Leijden .\liis. xx. p. 132 (1808: Wetter) ; id., nj) ril. xxii. p. 252. 

 pi. IV. fig. 2. 



Differs from G. e. everetti only in the lesser extent of the black subapical 

 portion in the tail, ami even that runs very close in some specimens. The extent 

 of the white is not always less in extent, extending on the outer pair over both 

 webs in both forms. 



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