NO, 2175. THE BIRDS OF BAWEAN ISLAND— OBERHOLSER. 



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Adult male, No. 181444, U.S.N.M.; Bawean Island, Java Sea, 

 November 27, 1907; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Pileum creamy white, the 

 feathers of the central portion of crown and occiput with blackish 

 brown subterminal bars, these broken or incomplete on the crown; 

 cervix and rest of upper surface white with broad subterminal bars 

 of fuscous black, fuscous, and light clove brown, these bars shading 

 proximally into pale brown or buffy, very little of the Ught color 

 showing on the upper surface posterior to the hind neck; tail basally 

 pale clove brown, distally brownish black or blackish brown, crossed 

 by two broad bars of mottled wood brown, shading in same places to 

 avellaneous; wing-quills brown, varying from light to dark clove 

 brown and fuscous, the greater portion of inner webs together with 

 tips of all, white, barred throughout with blackish brown or brownish 

 black; superior wing-coverts, their bases (except for brown bars) 

 and their broad tips white, the lesser coverts more blackish; sides of 

 head white, the auriculars much mixed with fuscous; sides of neck 

 white, barred broadly with fuscous; lower surface white, posteriorly 

 more or less washed with buffy, and with a slight malar streak of 

 black, a few hastate markings of fuscous on breast, jugulum, and 

 abdomen, rather broad irregular bars of warm fuscous on sides and 

 flanks, narrow bars of same on thighs, and a few narrow more or less 

 hastate pale brown bars on crissum; lining of wing white; "bill 

 leaden, tip black; face yellow; iris pale greenish; feet brownish yellow." 



The specimens collected by Doctor Abbott are all included m the 

 following table of measurements : 



Measurements of specimens of Spilornis hassus baireamis. 

 [Collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott.] 



Family PHASIANIDAE. 



GALLUS VARIUS (Shaw). 



PhasianusvariusSuAw, in Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc., vol. 10, October, 1798, 

 text to pi. 353 ("probably India"; locality wrong: I substitute Java as the 

 type locality). 



Two specimens: 



Adult male. No. 181412, U.S.N.M.; November 28, 1907. Total 

 length (in flesh) 545 mm. "Iris yellow; a narrow yeUow line on 



I Measured in the flesh by the collector. 

 ''Type. 



