NO. 2262. BIRDS OF THE TAMBELAN ISLANDS— 0BERH0L8ER. 133 



Adult female, No. 170883, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Wai, August 13, 1899. 

 Length in flesh, 203 mm. 



Both of these examples are in worn summer plumage, and have ap- 

 parently not yet begun to molt. Doctor Abbott mentions seeing sev- 

 eral along the seashore of Pulo Wai. 



Family OEDICNEMIDAE. i 



ORTHORHAMPHUS MAGNIROSTUIS SCOMMOPHORUS. new subspecies. 



Orthorhamphus magnirostris magnirostris Mathews, Novit. Zoo!., vol. 18, 

 January 31, 1912, p. 22G (not Vieillot). 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Orthorham'phus magivrosfrh 

 magnirostris (Vieillot), from Australia, but upper and lower parts 

 paler. 



Description.— Ty^Q, adult male, No. 1T0879, U.S.N.M. ; Pulo 

 Wai, Tambelan Islands, South China Sea, August 13, 1899; Dr. 

 W. L. Abbott. Upper parts drab, slightly verging toward hair 

 brown, more grayish on rump and superior tail-coverts, the shafts 

 of the feathers fuscous (these markings most conspicuous on pileum 

 and cervix), the upper tail-coverts much mottled and irregularly 

 barred with smoke gray and light smoke gray; middle rcctrices like 

 the rump, barred and mottled terrainally with dull light smoke 

 gray; remaining tail-feathers basally drab, succeeded distallj' by a 

 very narrow bar of fuscous, then by a wide white subterminal band, 

 and finally by a broad terminal band of fuscous, varying to fuscous 

 black; five outer primaries largely fuscous, but first (outermost) 

 quill with a broad white subterminal band, connected by the broad 

 white inner margin with the white base of inner web; second quill 

 with a similar white bar, though only on inner web, and connected 

 with the white base of inner vane; third the same, but with the 

 white areas somewhat brownish; fourth and fifth quills with only 

 base of inner vane and outer two-thirds of middle portion of same 

 vane white; remaining primaries white, with subterminal mottling 

 of fuscous, chiefly on outer webs; outer secondaries basally white, 

 terminally fuscous, but exterior margins of outer vanes pale brown- 

 ish smoke gray ; inner secondaries drab, their outer margins broadly 

 pale smoke gray; tertials drab; innei-most rows of lesser wing- 

 coverts drab like the back, with darker shafts; several succeeding 

 rows of coverts fuscous, forming a conspicuous dark wing-bar, fol- 

 lowed by a narrower white bar; remaining lesser coverts, with 

 median and greater coverts, pale smoke gray, the shafts slightly 

 darker; superciliary stripe and subocular stripe, connected posteri- 

 ally Avith broad auricular stripe, white; lores, large malar spot, 

 broad stripe on side of crown above the Avhite superciliary, and 

 broad stripe on cheeks, meeting the last behind the white auricular 

 stripe, brownish black; lower cheeks, chin, and upper throat white; 



