BIRDS OF THE ANAMBA ISLANDS. 35 



Description. — Type, adult female, No. 171023, U.S.N.M.; Pulo 

 Mata, Anamba Islands, August 29, 1899; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Sides of 

 head and neck, pileum, cervix, back, and scapulars, slate gray; 1 

 rump and upper tail-coverts varying from slate gray to gray No. 8, 1 

 broadly and boldly barred with white and black, the white predomi- 

 nating on the shorter coverts ; tail slate black, irregularly tipped with 

 white; wings slate black, all the quills tipped, the secondaries broadly, 

 the primaries narrowly, margined exteriorly with white, and all the 

 remiges broadly edged interiorly on basal portion with white; lesser 

 and median wing-coverts, with outer webs of tertials, gray, like the 

 back; greater coverts slate gray, narrowly margined with whitish; 

 primary coverts and alula slate color, narrowly edged and broadly 

 tipped with white; chin, throat, and jugulum gray No. 6, 1 slightly 

 and obsoletely barred imperfectly in places with paler gray; rest of 

 lower surface white, boldly barred with black, these bars much nar- 

 rower on the crissum; lining of wing white, narrowly barred with 

 black; ''iris gra}^; bill black; feet dull black." 



Measurements of type. — Total length, 292.1 mm.; wing, 160; tail, 

 112.5; exposed culmen, 26.5; tarsus, 27. 



The female type above described is the only specimen obtained by 

 Doctor Abbott. It is about the size of Artamides sumatrensis bun- 

 gurensis (Hartert), 2 from the Natuna Islands, but differs from the 

 same sex of that race in the absence of ashy clouding on the posterior 

 lower surface; the white and black bars being sharply contrasted, even 

 more so than in Artamides sumatrensis sumatrensis; white bars of 

 lower surface apparently broader; and lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts more sharply banded with black and white. This new 

 race may be distinguished from Artamides sumatrensis difficilis (Har- 

 tert), 3 from Balabac Island, Philippine Islands, by its larger size, and 

 in the female by the wider white bars on the posterior lower surface. 



Our single specimen of Artamides sumatrensis calopolius is appar- 

 ently not fully adult, for the outer tail-feathers are tipped and sub- 

 terminally mottled with dull white, and most of the primaries, all the 

 secondaries, tertials, and primary coverts are broadly margined with 

 white; while on the throat are seen some faint remnants of dark and 

 light barring. 



Family MUSCICAPIDAE. 



CYORNIS BANYUMAS LAMPRA, new subspecies. 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Cyornis banyumas philippinensis r 

 but the male with upper parts of a lighter, brighter blue; anterior 

 lower surface paler, more ochraceous (less tawny); posterior lower 



1 Of Mr. Robert Ridgway's Nomenclature of Colors for Naturalists., 18S6. 



2 Qraucalus bungurcnsis Hartert, Novit. Zool., vol. 1, 1894, p. 477. 



8 Graucalus sumatrensis difficilis Hartert, Novit. Zool., vol. 2, 1895, p. 470. 



