BIBDS OP THE ANAMBA ISLANDS. 

 Measurements of specimens of Antfireptes malacensis anambae. 



63 



U.S.N.M. 

 No. 



171009... 

 171037... 

 171102... 



170985... 



Sex. 



Male 



...do.... 

 ...do.... 

 ...do.... 



170984. ...!.. .do. 

 171051.... ...do. 



Locality. 



Pulo Mobur, Anam- 



ba Islands. 2 

 Pulo Kelong, An- 



amba Islands. 

 Pulo Jimaja, An- 



araba Islands. 

 Pulo Siantan, An- 



amba Islands. 



do 



Pulo Manguan, An- 



amba Islands. 



171052.... I... do do. 



Average of 7 males 

 170983.... 

 171099.... 

 171100.... 



Average of 3 females 



Date 



Aug. 25,1899 



Aug. 30,1899 



Sept. 26,1899 



Sept. 8,1899 



Aug. — ,1S99 

 Sept. 1, 1899 



do 



Collector 



Female..' Pulo Siantan, An- 



aniba Islands. 

 ..do J Pulo Jimaja, An- 



amba Islands. 

 ..do I do : Sept. 21,1S99 



Aug. 24, 

 Sept. 18,1899 



1 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



Type. 



CINNYRIS BRASILIANA EUMECIS, new subspecies. 



Subspecijic characters. — Similar to Cinnyris brasiliana orasiliana l , 

 from the Malay Peninsula, but larger, particularly the bill; female 

 lighter above, and paler, more greenish (less golden) yellow below. 



Description.— Type, adult male, No. 170974, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Sian- 

 tan, Anamba Islands, September 6, 1899; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Pileum 

 metallic grass green ; lores black ; sides of head and neck with hind neck 

 and upper back, velvety black; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and lesser wing-coverts, metallic deep verditer blue, with a pro- 

 nounced violet sheen, this almost absent on upper tail-coverts; tail 

 metallic indigo blue, with a violet tinge; wings clove brown, the greater 

 and median coverts, together with the tertials, velvety violet black; 

 throat metallic violet; jugulum, breast, and upper abdomen maroon; 

 rest of abdomen and crissum brownish black, the latter with the 

 feathers margined with paler brownish; lining of wing black. 



The following six specimens are in the collection : 



Adult male, No. 171096, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Jimaja, September 18, 



1899. 



Adult male (type), No. 170974, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Siantan, Septem- 

 ber 6, 1899. 



Immature male, No. 170975, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Siantan, September 



6, 1899. Length, 95.5 mm. 



i For the change of Cinnyris hasseltii to Cinnyris braiiliana, see Oberholser, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 60. 

 No. 7, October 26, 1912, p. 18. 



