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areas than even the female of Kittacincla malabarica heterogyna-"^ 

 from Pulo Riabu in the Anamba group. In fact, the female of this 

 new subspecies is of almost the same color as the male, except for 

 lighter posterior lower parts; but it is decidedly smaller, as the meas- 

 urements in Table 29 show. 



The female in what appears to be first autumn plumage is very 

 much lighter and duller throughout than the adult, the upper surface 

 and anterior lower parts being brownish slate, the wings dull brown 

 with tawny feather tips on the greater and median coverts. 



The immature male is in process of change from the juvenal to the 

 first autumn plumage, although there is little evidence of molt except 

 on the upper surface. In color it is much like the immature female 

 above described, but the upper parts are somewhat lighter; the middle 

 of the throat is buffy, leaving only an irregular band of brownish slate 

 color across the jugulum; there are roundish buff spots on the tips of 

 the scapulars, greater and median coverts; the posterior lower parts 

 are paler, and the middle of abdomen more extensively whitish. 



Doctor Abbott found this species inhabiting the dense jungle here, 

 as elsewhere. 



Table 29. — Measurements of specimens of Kittacincla malabarica eumesa 



Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



« Type. 



The apparently recognizable races of Kittacincla malabarica number 

 19, as follows: 



1. Kittacincla malabarica malabarica (Scopoli). 



Muscicapa malabarica Scopolt, Deliciae florae et faunae insiibricae, pt. 2, p. 96, 



1786. ("China.") 

 Kittacincla macroura indica Baker, Fauna of British India, Birds, vol. 2, p. 118, 



Apr.. 1924. ("Bhutan Duars.") 



Geographic distribution. — Ceylon, north to northern India and Assam, 

 •east to Yunnan in China, and to Burma. 



2. Kittacincla malabarica inter posita Robinson and Kloss. 

 Kittacincla malabarica interposita Robinson and Kloss, Journ. Federated 



Malay States Mus., vol. 10, pt. 4, p. 262, Dec, 1922. ("Daban, South 

 Annam.") 



« Oberholser, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 98, p. 53, June 30, 1917. ("Pulo Riabu, Anamba Islands.") 



