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Measurements of specimens of Microtarsus chalcocephalus baweanus. 

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



MICROTARSUS ATRICEPS ABBOTTI.s new subspecies. 



Suhspecific characters. — Resembling Microtarsus atriceps atriceps ^ 

 from the type region (Smnatra), but upper parts duller olive green, 

 much less golden; lower surface paler, more greenish in tone. 



Description. — Type, adult male. No. 181549, U.S.N.M.; Bawean 

 Island, Java Sea, November 22, 1907; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Top and 

 sides of head, also chin and throat, brownish black, with a metallic 

 green or purplish sheen; cervix, back, scapulars, and rump, yellowish 

 ohve green, becoming stiU more yellowish on the last, where also the 

 feathers have partly concealed broad brownish black subterminal 

 bars; upper tail-coverts pyrite yellow; tail light yellowish olive, the 

 outer pair of rectrices dull grayish subterminaUy, all the rest broadly 

 barred subterminaUy with brownish black, and all of them tipped 

 broadly, the middle pair less so, with strontian yellow; wings fuscous, 

 the lesser coverts, median coverts, outer webs of greater coverts, and 

 outer webs of tertials, yellowish olive green, the greater coverts, ter- 

 tials, and secondaries margined externally with pyrite yellow, and all 

 the wing-quiUs more or less edged basaUy with brownish or yellowish 

 white; breast yellowish warbler green; passmg gradually into the 

 lemon chrome of abdomen and crissum ; sides and flanks like the last, 

 but shghtly washed with greenish; axiUars strontian yellow; under 

 wing-coverts pale primrose yellow; ''iris blue; bill and feet black." 



1 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



2 Molting. 



3 Named for Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



« The specific term of Microtarsus melarwcepholos, which is the Lanius mdanocephalos of Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 309, is preoccupied by Lanius melanocephalus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 

 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 301, a synonym of Pomatorhynchus sencgalus Linnaeus. The next available name for 

 the species is Turdus atriceps Temminck, Planches Colorizes d'Oiseaus, vol 2, livr. 25, August, 1822, 

 pi. 147 and text (Sumatra and Java). 



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