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Measurements of the specimens examined are given in the sub- 

 joined table : 



Measurements of specimens of Sauropatis chloris amphiryta. 



a Measured la the flesh by the collector. 



6 Type. 



Not used in measurement averages. 



SAUROPATIS CHLORIS VIDALI (Sharpe). 



Halcyon chloris subsp. j8. vidali Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol, 17, 1892, 

 p. 278 (Ratnagiri and Kelsi Creek, South Konlian, Western India). 



Suhspecific characters. — Similar to Sauropatis chloris cyanescens, 

 but lower parts with more creamy tinge ; black nuchal band obsolete 

 or absent ; and auriculars green. 



Measurements. — Both sexes ^: Wing, 111-115 nun.; tail, 70-76; 

 culmen, 53; tarsus, 15-16.5. 



Type locality. — Kelsi Creek, South Konkan, western India.^ 



Geographic distribution. — Konkan, western India. 



Remarks. — Although not examined, this form, as its isolated range 

 would indicate, appears to be separable from both Sauropatis chloris 

 cyanescens and Sauropatis chloris armstrongi. It is decidedly larger 

 than the latter, and it seems not to be the same as the new race above 

 described from Simalur Island, western Sumatra, Sauropatis chloris 

 chloroptera., since it differs in its more bluish wings, obsolescence or 

 lack of the black nuchal band, and wholly green auriculars. 



Mr. C. Chubb informs me ^ that the male type of this race in the 

 British Museum is from Kelsi Creek, South Konkan, western India; 

 and that the female type came from Eatnagiri, South Konkan. The 

 former should, therefore, be considered the type, and Kelsi Creek 

 consequently the type locality. 



1 Two specimens, measured by Sharpe. 



* Type of male in British Museum ; according to Mr. Charles Chubb. 



* In a letter. 



