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It is in a state of nearly completed molt, from ju venal to adult 

 plumage, the only remaining traces of the former being the rusty 

 inner secondaries. There remains little trace of molt among the 

 contour feathers, but some of the wing quills are only partly grown. 



Family TURDIDAE 



•PETROPHILA SOLITABIA PHILIPPENSIS (Muller) 



Turdus Philippensis Mulleb, Linn^ Vollstandigen Natursystems, Supplements- 

 und Register-Band, p. 145, 1776. (" Philippinischen Inseln.") 



Recorded from Bunguran Island by Hartert,^° under the name 

 Monticola cyanus solitaria. 



KITTACINCLA MALABARICA EUMESA, new subspecies 



Subspecific characters. — Similar to Kittacincla malabarica suavis, 

 from eastern Borneo, but in both male and female with posterior 

 lower parts verj^ much darker, outer pair of tail feathers with con- 

 spicuous blackish bases, and upper parts rather more metallic (less 

 velvety). 



Description.— Type, adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 174742, Bunguran 

 Island, Natuna Islands, July 14, 1900; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Head, 

 neck all around, and upper parts, somewhat shiny bluish black; the 

 rump and upper tail coverts wliite; middle tail feathers black, the 

 rest of the tail white; wings brownish black, their exposed portions 

 less brownish, the lesser coverts edged with the color of the back, the 

 middle and greater coverts narrowly edged with the same; breast 

 burnt sienna; abdomen, sides, and flanks, Sanford's brown; crissum 

 dull Sanford's brown; axillars Sanford's brown; under wing coverts 

 cinnamon-rufous. 



Doctor Abbott sent the following 4 examples: 



Adult male (type), U.S.N.M. No. 174742, Bunguran Island, 

 July 14, 1900. Length in flesh, 273 mm. 



Juvenal male, U.S.N.M. No. 174743, Bunguran Island, July 19, 1900. 



Adult female, U.S.N.M. No. 174741, Bunguran Island, July 14, 

 1900. Length in flesh, 242 mm. 



Female in first autumn plumage, U.S.N.M. No. 174744, Pulo 

 Lingung, June 14, 1900. Length in flesh, 222 mm. 



The male of the Natuna Islands race differs conspicuously from 

 Kittacincla malabarica ochroptila-^ from the Anamba Islands in its 

 much darker posterior lower parts; while the adult female is much 

 darker both above and below than the female of the Anamba bird, 

 as well as being much more metallic on throat, jugulum, and upper 

 parts, including the wings. It is much darker throughout, except, of 

 course, the white rump, and much more metallic on the blackish 



" Nov. Zool., vol. 1, no. 2, p. 469, Apr. 16, 1894. 



« Oberholser, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 98, p. 51, June 30, 1917. ("Pulo Siantan, Anamba Islands.") 



