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BULLETIN 159, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Hypothymis azurea opisthocyanea of the intervening Anamba Islands, 

 though differing, of course, from the former in larger size. 



Three specimens are in Doctor Abbott's collection, as follows : 



Adult male (type), U.S.N.M. No. 174828; Bunguran Island, July 

 12, 1900. 



Juvenal male, U.S.N.M. No. 1 74829 ;Sirhassen Island, June 3, 1900. 



Juvenal [male], U.S.N.M. No. 174830; Pulo Lingung, near Bung- 

 uran Island, June 17, 1900. Length in flesh, 165 mm. 



The Juvenal birds are in molt and present a curiously mottled 

 appearance, with patches of blue among the brown feathers of the 

 upper parts and in the gray of the anterior lower surface. In color 

 all three examples are not distinguishable from Hypothymis azurea 

 prophata of Borneo and Sumatra, showing thus no approach to 

 Hypothymis azurea opisthocyanea, the form with bluish posterior 

 lower parts occurring on the Anamba Islands. 



Measurements are given in Table 16. 



Table 16. — Measurements of specimens of Hypothymis azurea gigantoptera 



1 Measured in tbe ilesh by the coUector. 



' Type. 



CULICICAPA CEYLONENSIS EOPHILA, new subspecies 



Suhspecific characters. — Resembling Culicicapa ceylonensis antio- 

 xantha, from Lower Siam, but with throat paler; yellow of posterior 

 lower parts lighter, less washed with olivaceous, particularly on the 

 breast, the crissum decidedly less golden, the abdomen somewhat so; 

 and upper surface somewhat darker, less golden (more greenish). 



Description. — Type, adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 174834; Gunong 

 Ranay, Bunguran Island, Natuna Islands, July 2, 1900; Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott. Pileum fuscous-black edged with deep neutral gray; 

 cervix deep neutral gray; remaining upper parts warbler green verging 

 slightly toward citrine, the rump paler; tail dark hair brown edged 

 with orange citrine; wings dark hair brown, edgings of the tertials 

 and of the inner secondaries, together with the tips of the greater 

 wing coverts, rather dark pyrite yellow, the other wing coverts like 

 the back; sides of head and of neck rather brownish deep neutral 

 gray; the subocular region somewhat darker; middle of throat and of 

 jugulum, between pale mouse gray and smoke gray, shading laterally 

 into the color of the sides of the neck; posterior lower parts rather 

 dull lemon chrome, shading on the breast and sides to warbler green; 



