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from the large series before me match them in the above characters ; 

 the bills also seem to be a little larger. This has led me to believe 

 the Javan bird to be separable and I have named it Excalfactoria 

 chinensis 'palnien^'^ in honor of the late William Palmer, who col- 

 lected the type. 



The two Celebes males are small, the wings contain some rufous,, 

 but not to the same extent as the Javan race; the back is like the 

 Philippine bird but not quite so dark, and they appear to be lighter 

 below. They apparently represent a recognizable race that Gould ^* 

 named and which will stand as above. 



I have seen no males from Australia, but judging from the plate in 

 Mathew's Birds of Australia " it is a very dark richly colored bird 

 with no rufous in the wing and well worthy of subspecific recogni- 

 tion, if these characters hold good. 



The females show considerable individual variation and the racial 

 differences are not so well marked. The mainland bird appears ta 

 be lighter than the island forms represented in my series. One 

 Australian female before me is very dark, but not as dark as the 

 bird represented by Mathews.^* It can be almost matched by a speci- 

 men from Mindanao (No. 191942) ; in fact, the Philippine bird is 

 possibly a little darker. 



One of the females taken at Toli Toli, December 16, is a bird of 

 the year still in the streaked plumage below. 



The series available before me averages as follows : 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



One from Malay Peninsula 



Two from Java 



Nine from Luzon 



Three from Mindanao (2) and Basilan (1) _ 

 Two from Celebes 



FEMALES. 



Four from Tenasserim (1) and Malacca (3) 



Three from Java 



Four from Luzon 



Three from Mindanao 



One from Celebes 



One from New South Wales 



mm, 

 18 



18.2 

 16.4 

 16. 8 

 16.2 



16.7 

 17.7 

 16. 2 

 16.2 

 16. 5 

 15. 5 



^ Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. 32, 1919, p. 93. 

 isproc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, p. 128. 

 »*Vol. 1, pt. 1, 1910, pi. 12. 



