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



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Family TRERONIDAE. 



MYRISTICIVORA BICOLOR (Scopoli). 



Coliimha hicolor Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Fauu. lusubr., pt. 2, 1786. p. 94 (New- 

 Guinea). 



Four specimens : 



Adult female, No. 170823, U.S.N.M. ; Pulo Taya, July 27, 1899. 



Adult female. No. 170824, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Taya, July 27, 1899. 

 " Iris dark brown ; bill leaden blue, black at tip ; feet pale blue." 



Adult female. No. 170825, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Taya, July 27, 1899. 

 " Bill leaden blue, black [at] tip ; feet light blue; claws black." 



Adult female, No. 170826, U.S.N.M. ; Pulo Taya, July 27, 1899. 

 " Iris dark broAvn ; eyelids leaden." 



All these examples, as is so frequently the case with this species, 

 are more or less adventitiously stained, apparently by fruit juices, 

 about the head, and some of them also on the under parts. They ap- 

 parently do not differ in either color or size from specimens of this 

 species taken in other localities. Doctor Abbott found this pigeon 

 numerous on Pulo Ta3'a. Measurements of the specimens collected 

 are given herewith : 



n Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



Family ALCEDINIDAE. 



SAUROPATIS CHLORIS CYANESCENS Obcrholser. 



Sonropatis rhloris cyancscen.s Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, 

 February 8, 1917, p. 1S9 (Pulo Taya, off the southeastern coast of 

 Sumatra). 



Four specimens : 



Adult male. No. 170835, U.S.N.M., type of subspecies; July 28, 

 1899. Length in flesh, 260 mm. 



Adult female, No. 170836, U.S.N.M.; July 28, 1899. Length in 

 flesh, 270 mm. " Iris dark brown; bill black, white beneath at base; 

 claws black." 



