112 BULLETIN 159, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Geographic distribution. — Java, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula to 

 Tenasserim, Siam, and Cochin China. 



2. Chalcostetha calcostetha halitypa Oberholser. 



Chalcostetha calcostetha halitypa Oberholser, antea, p. 110. 



Geographic distribution. — Natuna Islands to Borneo and (?) Celebes. 



3. Chalcostetha calcosthitha pagicola Oberholser. 



Chalcostetha calcostetha pagicola Oberholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, 

 no. 7, p. 17, Oct. 26, 1912. ("North Pagi Island.") 



Geographic distribution. — Pagi Islands, western Sumatra. 



4. Chalcostetha calcostetha heliomarpta Oberholser. 



Chalcostetha calcostetha heliomarpta Oberholser, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., 

 vol. 13, no. 11, p. 229, June 4, 1923. ("Simalur Island, western Sumatra.") 



Geographic distribution. — Simalur Island, western Sumatra. 



•CHALCOPARIA SINGALENSIS BORNEANA KIoss 



Chalcoparia singalensis borneana Kloss, Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., 

 vol. 10, pt. 3, p. 209, June, 1921. ("Bukar, Sumarahan, Sarawak.") 



Tliis species has been recorded by Doctor Hartert ^'^ from Bunguran 

 Island. It is apparently referable to the Bornean race, though we 

 have examined no specimens. 



CINNYRIS ORNATA ZAPEGA. new subspecies 



Subspecific characters. — Resembling Cinnyris ornata ornata,^^ from 

 Java, but upper parts (of male) duller, much less yellowish (more 

 brownish or olivaceous). 



Description. —Type, adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 174865, Pulo Subi, 

 Natuna Islands, June 13, 1900; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Sinciput shin- 

 ing metallic bluish black; rest of upper surface citrine,^^ somewhat 

 brighter and more yellowish posteriorly; tail black with a metallic 

 blue sheen, the three outer pairs of rectrices tipped with white, very 

 broadly on outer pair, less so on the other two pairs; wings fuscous, 

 broad tips of the lesser coverts, together with narrow exterior margins 

 of median and greater coverts, tertials, secondaries, and inner prima- 

 ries, citrine; cheeks, chin, middle of throat, and jugulum, shining 

 metallic raisin black; sides of throat and jugulum, shining metallic 

 dark delft blue; lores black; postocular region and sides of neck, 

 citrine; breast and abdomen, gamboge yellow, a few flecks of bay just 

 where this yellow joins the raisin black of the jugulum; tufts on sides 

 of breast cadmium yellow; sides and thighs washed wdth olivaceous; 

 crissum empire yellow; lining of wing white, washed with pinard 

 yeUow. 



« Nov. Zool., vol. 1, no. 2, p. 475, Apr. 16, 1894. 



»• Cinnyris ornatus Lesson, Dictionnaire des sciences naturclles, vol. 50, p. 15, Nov., 1827. (Type locality, 

 Java.) 

 »' In this specimen the anterior upper parts are considerably dulled by wear. 



