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a Measured in the flesh by the collector. 

 SAUROPATIS CHLORIS AMPHIRYTA, new subspecies. 



SuhspecifiG characters. — Similar to Sauropatis chloris chloroptera^ 

 but slightly smaller; male with upper surface lighter, more clearly 

 greenish (not so dull or olivaceous) ; sides and flanks much less 

 tinged with buff; female with superior parts lighter, less brownish 

 or olivaceous (more clearly greenish) ; and auriculars more greenish 

 (less blackish). 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 179765, U.S.N.M.; Lafau, 

 Nias Island, western Sumatra, March 21, 1903; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Back, scapulars, and pileum, sea green, darker and somewhat brown- 

 ish on the last; a large, almost concealed patch of white on the oc- 

 ciput ; a narrow blackish nuchal band, somewhat washed with green ; 

 a broad white cervical collar; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts, dull bluish beryl green; wings fuscous, the lesser coverts 

 mostly green like the back, the greater coverts and exposed portions 

 of wing-quills, excepting the tips, deep turquoise blue, in places some- 

 what more greenish; tail of the same color; lores black; supraloral 

 spot creamy white, a narrow line over the eye and a spot on lower 

 eyelid white; remainder of sides of head dull sea green, the posterior 

 auriculars black; entire lower surface white, the sides of body 

 washed with buff. 



