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with metallic greenish and margined externally with shinmg metallic 

 deep blue-violet; wmgs blackish fuscous (between fuscous and fuscous 

 black), the inner margins basally paler, the wing-quills, greater cov- 

 erts, and to a slight extent the primary coverts, margmed externally 

 with citrme; median coverts and longest scapulars chestnut; lesser 

 coverts shming metallic blue-violet; sides of head between citrine 

 and orange citrme ; malar stripe, prolonged down the side of the neck, 

 shining metallic violet ultramarme; sides of neck shining metallic 

 dark green, mixed more or less with the amethyst violet of the back; 

 chin and throat reddish brown, between kaiser brown and hazel; 

 breast, sides, and upper abdomen lemon chrome, slightly inclining 

 toward light cadmium, anteriorly somewhat tinged with brownish 

 olive; lower abdomen and thighs picric yellow; lower tail-coverts 

 pale lemon yellow; flanks, between lemon yellow and pyrite yellow, 

 but much nearer the former, i. e., pale lemon yellow only washed 

 with olivaceous; axillars picric yellow; under wing-coverts baryta 

 yellow, mixed with whitish. 



The male of this new form, as is frequently the case in races of 

 Anthre'ptes malacensis, is not with certamty distinguishable, though 

 it seems to be more clearly yellov/ on the breast than is usual in exam- 

 ples of Anthreptes malacensis malacensis. The female, however, 

 shows differences, as above set forth, which apparently indicate 

 subspecific distinction. Comparison has been made with series of 

 specimens of all the forms of the species. Both of the individuals 

 obtained by Doctor Abbott on Bawean Island are adults in perfect 

 plumage, and their measurements are as follows: 



Measurements of specimens of Anthreptes malacensis baweanus. 

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



CINNYRIS ORNATA ORNATA3 Lesson. 



Cinnyris omatus Lesson, Diet. Sci. Nat., vol. 50, 1827, p. 15 [Java]. 



One adult male, No. 181595, U.S.N.M., taken, November 22, 1907. 

 Length (in flesh), 120 mm. 



It is apparently identical with birds from Java. Some of the con- 

 tour feathers are in process of molt. 



1 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



2 Type. 



" For the change of name of this species from Cinnyris pectoralis Horsfleld to Cinnyris ornata Lesson, see 

 Oberholser, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 7, October 26, 1912, p. 18. 



