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28. POLIOLIMNAS CINEREUS OCULARIS Ingram.^s 



One female, Toll Toli, December 10, 1914; and one male, Tandjong 

 Penjoe, February 16, 1915. 



The two specimens are darker on the head and back than three 

 specimens from Java before me. Philippine birds are dark above 

 like the two Celebes specimens and it seems very probable that this 

 species breaks up into a number of local races. 



29. AMAURORNIS PHOENICURA LEUCOMELANA (S. Muller). 



One male, Kwala Besar, August 24, 1914 ; one male, Toli Toli, De- 

 cember 17, 1914; one immature male, Laboea Sore, December 14, 

 1916; two males and two females, Rano Lindoe, March 6-19, 1917. 



Stresemann has revised the forms of this species ^^ but the material 

 available does not permit me to go very deeply into the subject, and 

 my only object is to find an available name to use for the bird in- 

 habiting Celebes, I have compared my Celebes specimens with birds 

 from the surrounding region. I have only a pair of birds from 

 Java, which seem to have the black line on the sides of neck less 

 pronounced than in Celebesian specimens. Philippine and Bornean 

 skins are somewhat intermediate between those from Java and 

 Celebes, but probably incline more toward the former. In the 

 Celebes series the white frontal band is very narrow, almost absent 

 in the majority of the specimens; this also occurs in one specimen 

 from the Philippines and one from Borneo. It may be a question of 

 age as it is always absent in undoubted immature specimens but this 

 seems to be approaching the adult condition in Celebes birds. Of 

 undoubted A. />. leucomelana, I have no specimens for comparison, 

 but as the Celebes bird can not be referred to the race occurring to 

 the north or west, the only logical thing to do is to refer it for the 

 present to the southern form. Stresemann seems to regard it as a 

 sort of intermediate between A. p. javanica and leucoTnelana^ with 

 leanings toward the latter. 



Oberholser *'' described Amauromis phoenicura cleptea, which 

 Stresemann*^ places in the synonymy of A. p. javanica, but the 

 series before me seems to show that this disposition of it is incorrect. 

 The type oi A. p. cleptea is a female and somewhat aberrant, as two 

 othei" specimens from the same island have the lower abdomen and 

 anal region tinged with isabella color and the lack of olive above 

 is due to the worn condition; the females in all the races of the 

 species are considerably smaller than the males. A small series from 



^ See Stresemann, Nov. Zool., TOl. 21, 1914, p. 54. 

 =»Nov. Zool., vol. 20, 1913, pp. 303-305. 

 *" Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, no. 7, 1912, p. 2. 

 "Nor. Zool., vol. 20, 1913, p. 303. 



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