NO. 2282. BIRDS FROM SIMALUR ISLAND— OBERHOLSER. 



477 



and brownish black; chin and upper throat creamy white; lores, 

 cheeks, auriculars, lower portion of sides of neck, together with lowei- 

 throat and breast, neutral gray, with in places a wash of olivaceous; 

 posterior lower parts hair brown medially, shading to chaetura drab 

 laterally and on crissum, everywhere conspicuously barred with 

 white or creamy white, these bars widest and farthest apart on sides 

 and flanks, and inclined to merge on middle of lower breast and 

 abdomen, so that these parts present a noticeably whitish appear- 

 ance; lining of wing between hair brown and chaetura drab, con- 

 spicuously barred with white ; " iris pale yellow brown ; bill dark 

 brown, red beneath and at base." 



Of this new race there is but a single specimen in the present col- 

 lection, an adult female. No. 179539, U.S.N.M., taken at Sibabo Bay 

 on October 26, 1902. The colors of the soft parts in this example 

 are given by the collector as follows : " Iris red ; bill pinkish red, tip 

 horn brown; feet dull brownish purple." It agrees essentially in 

 color with the type, the only observable difference of note being its 

 rather lighter lower surface, posteriorly somewhat less heavily dark- 

 marked. 



This new race is apparently confined to the Barussan Islands. It 

 differs from Hypotaemdia striata albiventris (Swainson),^ from 

 India and the Malay Peninsula, in having its median posterior lower 

 parts darker, more heavily barred with blackish (less uniformly 

 whitish or buffy) ; more white on back and scapulars; and usually 

 more black on center of pileum. There is in this species, as, of course, 

 is v;ell known, much individual ^■ariation m the size and number of 

 the white markings on the upper surface, so that this character is 

 perhaps of least value in the diagnosis above given. Measurements 

 of the Simalur Island specimens are given herewith : 



Measurements of specimens of Ilypotaenidia striata reliqua. 

 [Collector, Dr. W. L. Abbott.] 



a Measured in the flesii bv the collector. 



^ Type. 



The following subspecies of Hypotaenidia striata seem now to be 

 recognizable : 



Ilypotaenidia striata striata (Linnaeus).— Philippine Islands, 

 Celebes, Borneo, and (?) Sumatra. 



^Rallua alMvenier Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1837, p. 337 (India). 



