BIRDS OF THE AXAMBA ISLANDS. 



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The following measurements of the adults of this race are all that 

 eould be taken with any reasonable accuracy, owing to the molting 

 condition of the wings and tail, and it is possible that the wing and 

 tail dimensions here given are, for the same reason, somewhat less 

 than they should be. 



Measurements of specimens of Kittacincla malabariea ochroptila. 



1 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



2 Type. 



KITTACINCLA MALABARICA HETEROGYNA, new subspecies. 



Subspecijic characters. — Similar to Kittacincla malabariea ochrop- 

 tila, 3 but female very much darker, particularly on the throat, breast, 

 and upper surface. 



Description.— Type, adult female, No. 170918, U.S.N.M.; Pulo 

 Riabu, Anamba Islands, August 18, 1899; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Head, 

 neck, jugulum, back, scapulars, lesser and median wing-coverts, slate 

 black; rump and upper tail-covcrts pure white; greater wing-coverts, 

 primary coverts, and wing-quills, dark brown, between sepia and clove 

 brown, these coverts somewhat darker, the greater series narrowly 

 margined externally with tawny; tail clove brown, the three outer- 

 most pairs of rectrices with broad white tips on both webs, the fourth 

 pair with a broad white tip confined to outer web; posterior lower 

 surface tawny, the thighs and middle of abdomen somewhat whitish; 

 lining of wing tawny, a little mixed with whitish and dusky. "Iris 

 dark brown; feet fleshy white." 



Measurements {of type). — Wing, 92 mm.; tail, 97.5; exposed culmen, 

 15.5; tarsus, 24.5. 



Geographic distribution. — Pulo Riabu and Pulo Piling, in the 

 southern Anamba Islands. 



Unfortunately, we have no adult male of this new race, but the 

 female is easily separable, not only from Kittacincla malabariea 



" See, p. 5. 



