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the central pair, broadly tipped with cinnamon; darker on 

 the middle ones. Throat white, with a black patch across 

 the crop; remainder of under surface rufous-buff, the sides 

 washed with brown ; under tail-coverts and thighs cinnamon. 

 Wing 68, tail 80, tarsus 18, culmen 13 mm. 

 ? smaller, wing about 62 mm. 

 Hah. Mt. Mada, Buru (3000 feet). 



Pachycephala melanura buruensis, subsp. n. 



The Thickhead, with golden-yellow under surface in the 

 male, from Buru, has hitherto been considered the same as 

 P. clio from the Sola Islands, but it differs considerably from 

 the latter species in being of a much deeper dark greenish- 

 olive colour on the upperside and in having all the upper 

 wing-coverts pure black with narrow olive edges. The golden- 

 yellow collar on the back of the neck is unbroken, the pectoral 

 pure black collar being very wide and broadly united with 

 the black sides of the head. The remiges are edged with the 

 colour of the back ; the tail black. The female diflers also 

 from that of P. clio of the Sula Islands in tlie colour of the 

 under surface, which is pale huffish brown, lighter in the 

 middle of the abdomen, darker and browner on the chest, and 

 becoming more greyish on the throat. Under tail-coverts 

 butfy yellow. The young male is more rufous below and 

 darker on the back than the female, which is olive-brown 

 above. (^ ad. Wing 93, tail 73, culmen 18-19 mm. 



$ ad. Wing 89 mm. 



Hab. Buru. 



I consider all these yellow Thickheads to be geographical 

 representatives of one species. 



Columba mada, sp. n. 



(^ . Bill yellow, red at base. Top of head and neck pure 

 grey, merging into the colour of the rest of the upper surface, 

 which is slate-colour with light grey borders to the feathers. 

 Rectrices deep slaty brown, with narrow pale brownish tips. 

 Bare skin round eyes red. Sides of head, throat, chest, 

 and breast buff, palest on the throat. Abdomen brownish 



