BIRDS OF THE ANAMBA ISLANDS. 



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with more or less metallic green gloss; primary coverts and exterior 

 greater coverts greenish slate with some metallic green on outer webs; 

 rest of wing-coverts metallic green like the back; crissum deep 

 maroon-chestnut; remainder of inferior parts cinereous with a slight 

 vinaceous tinge, particularly on lower breast and abdomen; under 

 surface of wing-quills fuscous; lining of wing plumbeous; "iris dark 

 red; eyelids deep red; bill leaden; cere purplish red; feet purplish; 

 claws leaden." 



This new subspecies is similar to Muscadivores aeneus chalyburus, 

 from the Philippine Islands, but differs in having the gray of the head 

 less sharply defined from the metallic green of the back; the posterior 

 lower parts less vinaceous (more clearly grayish) ; the upper surface 

 of the tail nearly always brighter, less glaucous, more bluish green. 

 All the Anamba Islands specimens are fairly uniform in characters, 

 though two of them, No. 170925, U.S.N .M. and No. 174669, U.S.N .M., 

 have the tail above less bluish than the others, thus approaching 

 Muscadivores aeneus chalyburus. Males and females are identical in 

 color. The colors of the soft parts in a male from Pulo Mata (No. 

 171019, U.S.N .M.) are given as follows: "Bill leaden, pale at tip, 

 dark at base; cere dull purple; feet purple." The same in a female 

 from Pulo Siantan (No. 17G924, U.S.N.M.) are: "Iris dark red; 

 eyelids red; feet purple, soles pale brownish; bill leaden; cere red- 

 dish." The weight in flesh of each of two males (No. 17G925, and 

 No. 170993, U.S.N.M.) is given as 1{ pounds. Doctor Abbott men- 

 tions that he found the species common in the forest on Pulo 

 Siantan, August 19 to September 13, 1899, and on Pulo Telaga, 

 September 14-15, 1899. He observed it also on Pulo Manguan, Sep- 

 tember 1-2, 1899, and on Pulo Jimaja, September 17-28, 1899. 



Measurements of all the specimens obtained are subjoined. 



Measurements of specimens of Muscadivores aeneus polius. 



1 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



'Type. 



