NO. 2268. BIRDS COLLECTED IN PULO TAYA—OBERHOLSER. 



273 



Juvenal male, No. 170838, U.S.N.M.; July 26, 1899. Length in 

 flesh, 216 mm. 



Juvenal female, No. 170839, U.S.N.M. ; July 26, 1899. Length in 

 flesh, 203 mm. " Iris red ; bill and feet black." 



Juvenal female, No. 170840, U.S.N.M. ; July 27, 1899. Length in 

 flesh, 203 mm. 



Juvenal female. No. 170812, U.S.N.M. ; July 27, 1899. Length in 

 flesh, 203 nmi. 



Two of the Juvenal females (Nos. 170839 and 170812, U.S.N.M.) 

 are just beginning to molt; the two other juvenal birds are in the 

 midst of the process, this affecting both quills and contour feathers, 

 and have acquired a considerable portion of their adult livery. 

 Measurements of the two adults are as follows: 



Mcasurenioits of sijcduicns of Lamprocorax panaycnsis richmondi. 



a Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



b Typo. 



Family NECTARINIIDAE. 



CINNYRIS ORNATA MICROLEUCA, new subspecies. 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Cinnyris omata ornata ( = Cin- 

 nyris pectoralis [Horsfield]) ^ from Java, but decidedly larger; 

 male with upper parts less golden (more grayish or brownish) ; 

 posterior lower surface averaging paler; outer pair of rectrices with 

 smaller white tips. Female also less golden (more grayish or 

 brownish) above than the same sex of Cinnyris ornata. ornata^ with 

 posterior lower parts averaging somewhat paler, and the outer 

 rectrices with less white on their tips. 



Description.— Type, adult male, No. 170843, U.S.N.M. ; Pulo Taya, 

 off the southeastern coast of Sumatra, July 26, 1899; Dr. W. L, 

 Abbott. Sinciput metallic dusky violet blue; rest of upper surface 

 citrine, the rump and upper tail-coverts more yellowish; tail brown- 

 ish black, the three outer rectrices tipped with white, most broadly 

 on the outermost; wings fuscous, the quills and all the coverts, ex- 



1 For this change of name, see Oberholsor, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 7, October 

 26, 1912, p. 18. 



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