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Adult female, No. 170833, U.S.N.M.; July 27, 1899. Length in 

 flesh, 273 mm. "Iris dark brown; bill black, fleshy white beneath 

 at base ; feet dark brown, soles pale." 



Adult female. No. 170834, U.S.N.M. ; July 28, 1899. " Iris dark 

 brown ; bill black, white beneath at base." 



One of these (No. 170836, U.vS.N.M., July 28, 1899) is just begin- 

 ning to show molt in the wings and tail. 



According to Doctor Abbott this kingfisher was fairly common on 

 Pulo Taya ; and Mr. Kloss reported it from the Nyamok Islets.^ 



Family GRACULIDAE. 



LAMPROCOKAX PANAYENSIS RICHMONDI, new subspecies.^ 



Subspeciflc cliaracters. — Resembling Lamprocorax panayensis stri- 

 {/atus, from Java, but decidedly larger; green of particularly the 

 lower parts more bronzy or yellowish (less bluish). 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 170841, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Taya, 

 July 27, 1899; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Upper and lower parts shining 

 metallic yew green, the former with a very slight, the latter with a 

 very decided, purplish bronzy sheen; tail browish black, the three 

 middle pairs of rectrices and bi^ad exterior margins of the rest, 

 metallic dull blue green; wings brownish black, the inner edges of 

 the quills paler and more brownish, both webs of tertials, with outer 

 webs of primaries and secondaries, metallic dull blue green ; greater 

 wing-coverts metallic duslry yellowish green; median and lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back; under wing-coverts fuscous black edged 

 with metallic dull bluish green. 



This new race is decidedly larger than Malay Peninsula specimens 

 of Lamprocorax panayensis afinis, especially in the bill, and is 

 usually more bronzy below. It is, in fact, most closely related to 

 Lamprocorax panayensis Tieterochlorus ^ of the Anamba Islands, but 

 is separable by its smaller size, particularly shorter tail, and by its 

 more bronzy plumage, especially below. So far as known, it is con- 

 fined to Pulo Taya. 



The reasons for the recognition of the genus Lamprocorax as dis- 

 tinct from Aplonis have already been set forth by the present writer.* 



Doctor Abbott reported Laniprocorax panayensis richmondi fairly 

 common on Pulo Taya at the time of his visit, and collected six speci- 

 mens there, as follows: 



Adult male, type. No. 170841, U.S.N.M., July 27, 1899. 



Adult male. No. 170837, U.S.N.M.; July 26, 1899. "Iris red; bill 

 and feet black." 



»Journ. Straits Branch Roy. Asiatic Soc, No. 41, January, 1904, p. 59. 



* Named in honor of Dr. C. W. Richmond, who first discovered its distinctness. 



* Lamprocorax panayensis heterochlorus Oberholser, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 98, June 

 30, 1917, p. 57. 



* Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.. No. 98. June 30. 1917. v. 58. 



