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Type.— Adult male, No. 180883, U. S. N. M. ; Teliwaa, Nias Is- 

 land, March 5, 1905 ; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



DISSEMURUS PARADISEUS PACHISTUS, new subspecies 

 Resembling Dissemurus paradiscus adelphus, from Nias Island, 

 but with frontal crest and antrorse bristles shorter, and racket 

 smaller. Like Dissemurus paradiscus paradiscus from eastern Su- 

 matra, but much larger, and with shorter racket. Wing (of type), 

 155.5 mrn - » ta ^> 37°; total culmen, 33.5 ; height of bill at base, 12.5 ; 

 tarsus, 25.5. 



Type. — Adult male, No. 179239, U. S. N. M. ; Pula Lasia, January 

 5, 1902 ; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



DISSEMURUS PARADISEUS ELASSOPTERUS, new subspecies 

 Resembling Dissemurus paradiseus pachistus, from Pulo Lasia, but 

 wing and tail shorter, bill larger, racket narrower, and frontal crest 

 somewhat longer. Wing (of type), 152.5 mm.; tail, 367; total cul- 

 men, 34; height of bill at base, 13; tarsus, 24.5. 



Type. — Adult male, No. 179238, U. S. N. M. ; Pulo Babi, January 

 11, 1902; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Family ORIOLIDAE 

 ORIOLUS MACULATUS RICHMONDI, 1 new subspecies 



Similar to Oriolus maculatus maculatus, but wing shorter ; bill 

 rather longer ; male with secondaries and tertials much less broadly 

 edged with yellowish. Resembling Oriolus maculatus iiiuiidus Rich- 

 mond, but bill somewhat smaller ; male with posterior upper parts less 

 purely yellow (more tinged with olive), as in Oriolus maculatus 

 maculatus; secondaries and tertials more broadly margined with 

 yellowish. 



Type.— Adult male, No. 179886, U. S. N. M. ; North Pagi Island, 

 December 31, 1902; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Family GRACULIDAE 2 

 GRACULA JAVANENSIS MIOTERA, new subspecies 



Like Gracula javanensis javanensis but smaller, and with a slenderer 

 bill. 



1 Named for Dr. Charles W. Richmond, as a slight token of the author's 

 regard. 



" By the change of the generic name Eulabes Cuvier to Gracula Linnaeus, 

 the name of the family becomes Graculidae in place of Eulabetidae. 



