NO. 2262. BIRDS OF THE TAMBELAN ISLANDS— OBERHOLSER. 



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Adult male, No. 170898, U.S.N.M. ; Saddle Island, August 15, 1899. 

 Length in flesh, 407 mm. 



Adult male, No. 170897, U.S.N.M. ; Saddle Island, August 15, 1899. 

 Length in flesh, 413 mm. " Bill light blue, tip black. Crop filled 

 with wild nutmegs." 



Adult female, No. 170899, U.S.N.M.; Saddle Island, August 15, 

 1899. Length in flesh, 381 mm. " Upper mandible green at base, 

 black at tip ; lower mandible greenish leaden, black at tip." 



Adult female, No. 170885, U.S.N.M. ; Pulo Wai, August 13, 1899. 

 Length in flesh, 394 mm. 



These are apparently indistinguishable from specimens taken in 

 the Philippine Islands and on Celebes. Two— No. 170898, U.S.N.M., 

 male, taken, August 15, and No. 170885, U.S.N.M., female, taken, 

 August 13, are molting their contour feathers, mostly on throat, 

 breast, and hind neck. The three other examples are in excellent 

 plumage, though in places somewhat soiled, apparently from vege- 

 table juices. Doctor Abbott reported this species common on Saddle 

 Island, August 15, 1899; and fairl}' so on Pulo Wai, August 12-14, 

 1899. He saw it also on Pulo Bunoa, August 5-7, 1899. 



Measurements of these Tambelan Islands birds are given below. 



Measurcnicnts of spceiiacns of Myiinticivora bicolor. 



U.S.N. 

 M. No. 



170884 

 170S97 



170898 

 170899 

 170885 



Sex. 



Male.. 

 ...do.. 



...do... 

 Female. 

 ...do... 



Locality. 



Pulo Wai, Tam- 

 belan Islands. 



Saiidlo Island, 

 Tambelan Is- 

 lands. 



do 



do 



Pulo Wai, Tam- 

 belan Islands. 



Date. 



1S99. 



Aug.l2 



Aug. 15 



Collector. 



Dr. W.L.Ab- 

 bott. 

 do 



...do ..• do. 



...do. .1 do. 



Aug.lSj do. 



I 



0.3 



39 



34.5 



35 



1 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 

 •MUSCADIVORES AENEUS POLIUS Oberholcer. 



Muscadivores aeneus polius Obekholser, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 98, 

 June 30, 1917, p. IS (Pulo Siantan, Auamba Islands). 



This species was reported from the Tambelan Islands, as observed 

 between August 3 and 14, 1899, by Mr. C. B. Kloss.^ Although 

 Doctor Abbott preserved no specimens, the subspecies occurring here 

 seems to be without much doubt that of the Anamba Islands. 



1 Journ. Straits Branch Roy. Asiatic Soc, No. 41, January, 1904, p. 66. 



