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HYPOTHYMIS AZUREA (Boddaert). 



MmcicapaazuveaBoimx^^T, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, p. 41 ("Philippines"). 



Five specimens, from Tapanuli Bay, Pulo Tuangku, and Bangkaru. 

 Males from the Banjak Islands (length, 165; wing, 72-T3) are just a 

 tritle larger than those from Tapanuli Bay (length, 162; wing, 71-72). 

 and have a bhiish wash on the under tail-coverts. This species is 

 reported as common on the Banjak Islands. 



"Feet dull leaden blue; bill blue; tip black; inside of mouth yellow- 

 ish green.'' 



HYPOTHYMIS CONSOBRINA Richmond. 



Hypothymis comobrina Richmond, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XV, August 6, 1902, 

 p. 189 (Simalur Island, west coast of Sumatra). 

 Two adult males, from Simalur, where it was "common." //. 

 tytleri has reen recorded from Engano by Salvadori, but the bird from : 

 that island will doubtless prove to be B. consohrina. 



"Bill blue, black at tip; inside of mouth yellow; feet leaden blue." 



RHIPIDURA JAVANICA (Sparrman). 

 Mxiscicapa javanica Sparrman, Mus. Carls., Pt. 3, 1788, pi. lxxv (Java). 

 One adult male, from Loh Sidoh Bay. 



TCHITREA PROCERA, new species. 



Tyj)e.—X^\\\i male, No. 179415, U.S.N.M.; Simalur Island, west 

 coast of Sumatra, December 12, 1901; Dr. W. L. Abbott. This 

 species closely resembles T. nicobarica in the white plumage, but has 

 shorter wings, and the color of the head is glossy blue black, without 

 a greenish sheen. 



Length, 445; wing, 86; tail, 320; tarsus, 17.5; culmen, 17 (bill, fromi 

 gape, 26.5) mm. "Iris dark brown; eyelids blue; inside of mouth 

 green; bill ])lue, tip and commissure black; feet leaden blue." 



The central rectrices m jjrocera are broad, as in nicobarica and/w/s, 

 not much narrowed as in affinis and incH. The wings of nicobarica^ 

 affinis^ incii, Jloris, sumbaensis, and insularis are 90 mm. or over; m 

 lyrocera they vary from 81 to 87 (both sexes). In affinis, incii, nico- 

 barica, and Jlor is (I have not seen the others) the head is of about the 

 same shade of glossy greenish black, but it is glossy bluish black in 

 procera. In nicobarica the feathers of the mantle are white, almost to 

 the base, with narrow black shaft lines; in proce'r a they are similar, 

 but a little darker at the base; in affinis and incii these feathers are 

 largely dark gray at the base, with the shaft stripes broader and more 

 pronounced in the last-named. It has been stated that T. incii has no 

 white plumage, but we have several in this phase from the Malay 

 '\Miinsula. and one from north China. 



