224 PACIIYCEPHALA VANDEPOLLI. 



NOTE XXXII. 



ON THREE APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES OE BIRDS 

 EROM THE ISLANDS BATÜ, SÜMBAWA AND ALOR 



BY 



Dr. O. PINSCH. 



1. Pachycephala Vandepolli, n. sp. 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown ; head 

 above darker; lores and ear-region lighter and more 

 greyish brown ; chin whitish grey, throat and breast ashy 

 grey, remainder underparts, axillaries and greater under 

 wing-coverts white, the smaller ones along the carpal 

 margin grey ; sides washed with grey ; quills blackish , 

 margined on the outer web with dark brown (a little lighter 

 and more olive than the back) broadest ou the seconda- 

 ries; tail blackish brown. Bill and feet black. (» Iris brown; 

 bill black ; feet grey". Kannegieter). 



Hab. Batoe Islands: Pulu tello. 



There are three males (precisely alike) collected in July 

 and August 1896 by Mr. J. Z. Kannegieter, the able col- 

 lector of Mr. Neervoort van de Poll at Zeist , well known 

 in science , especially as an Entomologist , after whom I 

 have the honour to name this species. 



Nearly allied to P. grisola Blyth (184:3 ^ » Pachycephala 

 philomela, Temm." Mus. Lugd.) from Java, Borneo and 

 Lombok , but distinguished in being darker above , espe- 

 cially on the head , and having the throat and breast dark 



J<Jotes from th.e Leyden MLuseum , Vol. XX. 



