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scapulars between Saccardo's olive and brownish olive, barred with 

 brown, between buckthorn brown and old gold ; rump and upper tail 

 coverts dark Saccardo's olive, barred with light olive lake; tail sepia, 

 more olivaceous basally, and barred with tawny-olive; wing quills and 

 primary coverts brownish olive, verging toward sepia, more brownish 

 externally, barred with clay color, honey yellow, and chamois, and on 

 the inner edges of the \ving quills with colonial buff; lesser wing coverts 

 like the back, but with very slightly paler tips, remaining upper wing 

 coverts between brownish olive and sepia, barred with tawny-olive; 

 auriculars and sides of the head rather rufescent light brownish olive; 

 sides of the neck like the back, but rather more greenish; malar stripe 

 between nopal red and Brazil red, a spot on each side of the jugulum 

 buff-yellow; chin ochraceous-tawny barred with fuscous; upper throat 

 chamois, barred with fuscous-black; jugulum and upper breast between 

 fuscous-black and fuscous, barred mth chamois and deep colonial 

 buff; lower breast medal bronze, barred with tawny-olive; abdomen, 

 flanks, and thighs, buffy citrine verging toward Dresden brown and 

 barred with dull and rather brownish old gold ; sides between brownish 

 olive and olive, barred with colonial buff, deep colonial buff, chamois, 

 and dull primrose yellow; crissumof the same color as the sides, and 

 barred with honey yellow, chamois, colonial buff, and intermediate 

 shades; lining of wing varying from honey yellow to chamois. 



From the recently described Meiglyptes tukki percnerpes Oberhol- 

 ser ^^ of Borneo, the present race may readily be distinguished by its 

 larger size ; darker, decidedly more yellowish (olivaceous) upper sur- 

 face ; more rufescent head ; and by having the lower parts somewhat 

 darker, less dull, and more yellowish (olivaceous), and noticeably more 

 extensively and distinctly barred, almost all the posterior parts, even 

 the middle of the abdomen, being thus marked. It differs from 

 Meiglyptes tukki brunneus of the Malay Peninsula in larger size, more 

 rufescent head, more yellowish olivaceous upper parts (except head), 

 also more extensively barred, darker, and more yellowish olivaceous 

 lower surface. 



Although we have not examined Meiglyptes tukki pulonis Chasen and 

 Kloss,83 from Banguey Island, north Borneo, the present bird appar- 

 ently may readily be separated from that island race by reason of its 

 more yellowish oUvaceous (less brownish) upper surface, more exten- 

 sively barred, darker, and more yellowish lower parts. 



The specimens collected by Doctor Abbott are as follows: 



Adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 174690, Bunguran Island, June 27, 

 1900. "Iris dark red; feet dirty brownish olive." 



Adult male (type), U.S.N.M. No. 174694, Bunguran Island, July 

 10,1900. "Iris dull red." 



" Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 14, no. 13, p. 301, July 19, 1924. 

 »3 Journ. f. Cm., ErgSnzungsband 2, p. 112, Oct. 29,1929. 



