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The remaining 45 species and subspecies may properly form the 

 basis of our faunal deductions. There are not yet sufficient data for 

 entirely satisfactory comparison of the birds of the various islands 

 or groups of islands in the Anamba archipelago; but so far as I can 

 see from our present knowledge there is very little difference between 

 the individual islands, or between the islands of the eastern and 

 western or northern and southern parts of the group. My treatment 

 here is, therefore, of the Anamba Islands as a faunal whole. 



Fifteen species, or rather their subspecific representatives, are pe- 

 culiar to the Anamba Islands, as follows: 



Muscadivores aeneus polius. 



Dendrophassa vernans adina. 



Gollocalia vestita amechana. 



Artamides sumatrensis calopolius. 



Gyornis banyumas lampra. 



Pycnonotus plumosus chiropletJiis. 



Pycnonotus simplex halizonus. 



Pycnonotus brunneus zapolius. 



Mixornis pileata zopJiera. 



Kittacincla malabarica heterogyna. 



Gracula javana prasiocara. 



Dissemurus paradiseus microlophus. 



Anthreptes malacensis anambae. 



Ginnyris brasiliana eumecis. 



Dicaeum trigonostigmum liypochloum. 



Of these, the nearest relatives of 7 are found in the Malay Penin- 

 sula; of 4 on Sumatra; of 4 on Borneo; of 2 on Java; and of 1 in Indo- 

 China. 1 



Subspecies of 6 other species are, outside of the Anamba Islands, 

 confined to some of the other small islands of the South China Sea, 

 chiefly the Natuna Islands, the Tambelan Islands, Pulo Tioman, and 

 Karimata Island. These subspecies are: 



Hypurolepis javanica abbotti. 



Hypothymis azurea opisthocyanea. 



Aegithina viridissima thapsina. 



Kittacincla malabarica ochroptila. 



Lamprocorax panayensis Tieterochlorus. 



Aethopyga siparaja ocliropyrrha. 



Of these, 6 find their nearest relatives in the Malay Peninsula, 

 1 on Sumatra, 1 on Borneo, 1 on Java, and none in Indo-China. 1 



The remaining 24 Anamba birds belong to more or less wide 

 ranging Asian, Indo-Malayan, East Indian, Polynesian, Australian, 

 Old World tropical, or tropicopolitan species. Twenty-two of these 



1 In this, as in the following enumeration, it is necessary to explain that the nearest relative of some of 

 the Anamba birds occurs in more than one of the five areas above mentioned. 



