176 BIRDS FROM MAS. 



wing 

 A. sumatrensis 



a. Sumatra: 



8 males 15 — 15,3 cm. 



4 females 14,5 — 15,3 » 



h. Borneo: 



2 males and 1 fem. 14,3 — 15 » 

 A. Kannegieteri ... 17,2 » 



Aclult female. Entire head , 

 upper wiug-coverts , outer web of innermost secondaries, 

 chin , throat , chest and upper breast uniform light ashy 

 gray ; rump , upper tail-coverts , lower breast and rest of 

 the lower surface, including edge of wing, under wing- 

 coverts and thighs white, broadly barred with black, the 

 black bars as broad as the white interspaces; quills black, 

 primaries and primary coverts edged with ashy gray along 

 the outer web , outer secondaries partially dark ashy gray 

 on the outer web, which is narrowly fringed with white; 

 under surface of quills ashy gray, darker towards the tips , 

 and each feather rather broadly edged with white on the 

 inner web; tail-feathers black, the outer pairs gray at the 

 tip , which is narrowly fringed with white , the innermost 

 pair dark gray with a broad terminal part black. 



»Iris white, bill and feet black. Native name: ? ." 



A single specimen, an adult female (N". 239), was col- 

 lected at Lahagoe, February 15th. The male of this species 

 will probably be similar in color to that of A. sumatrensis. 



40. Irena criniger Sharpe. 



Irena cyanea Salvad. Ucc. di Nias, p. 541 ; Oust. I.e. pp. Ill, 120. 



Three adult males (Nos. 3, 11 and 80), a young male 

 in transitional stage (N°. 67) and five females (Nos. 4, 12, 

 16, 87 and ?), all from Hili Madjeio. 



»Iris light red , bill and feet black. Native name : Wadroe." 



1) The culracn is measured in a straight line from the extreme base to the tip. 

 Notes from the Leyden JMuseum, Vol. XV III. 



