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Measurements of type.—Wing, 57.5 mm.; tail, 45.5; exposed culmen, 19; 
tarsus, 14.5; middle toe without claw, 10. 
So far as known, this race is confined to the island of Simalur. It is dis- 
tinguishable from Chalcostetha calcostetha pagicola by its somewhat larger 
size, and, in the female, by lighter throat and darker abdomen. 
Cinnyris ornata heliobleta, subsp, nov. 
Subspecific characters.—Similar to Cinnyris ornata? microleuca from Pulo 
Taya, off southeastern Sumatra, but somewhat smaller; the male with upper 
surface darker, more greenish (less golden); yellow of posterior lower surface 
paler, more greenish (less golden), and flanks more greenish; the female 
above less golden in hue, and below paler, less golden, posteriorly. 
Description.—Type, adult male, No. 175122, U. 8. Nat. Mus.; Tanjong 
Dungun, Trengganu, Federated Malay States, September 21, 1900; Dr. W. 
L. Abbott. Upper parts dark citrine; tail brownish black, the three outer 
rectrices tipped with dull white, most broadly on the outermost; wings 
fuscous, the quills and all the coverts, except the primary series, narrowly 
margined externally with dark citrine; lores of the same color as the crown; 
center of chin, of throat, and of jugulum, raisin black; sides of chin, of throat, 
and of jugulum, together with the anterior part of the checks, metallic 
indigo blue; remainder of the sides of head, and the sides of neck, dark 
citrine; a narrow, somewhat broken, line across the breast at the posterior 
edge of the raisin black jugulum, prouts brown; pectoral tufts cadmium 
yellow; breast and abdomen, strontian yellow, the crissum paler; sides and 
flanks, wax yellow, washed with olivaceous; lining of wing white, washed 
with barium yellow; bill and feet black. 
Measurements of type-—Wing, 51 mm.; tail, 35; exposed culmen, 17; 
tarsus, 13.5; middle toe without claw, 8.5. 
Cinnyris ornata proselia, subsp. nov. 
Subspecific characters.—Resembling Cinnyris ornata heliobleta, from the 
Federated Malay States, but somewhat smaller; male with upper parts 
darker, more golden olive, and. yellow of posterior lower parts darker, more 
golden; female darker, more golden (less grayish) above, and darker, more 
golden posteriorly below. 
Type.—Adult male, No. 178889, U. 8. Nat. Mus.; Car Nicobar Island, 
Nicobar Islands, January 21, 1901; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 
Measurements of type.—Wing, 49 mm.; tail, 34.5; exposed culmen, 16.5; 
tarsus, 14.5; middle toe without claw, 8.5. 
This form is apparently confined to the island of Car Nicobar. It differs 
from Cinnyris ornata klossi (Richmond), from the other Nicobar Islands, 
in its smaller size; also, in the male, in much less golden (more grayish) 
upper surface, and rather lighter posterior lower parts; and, in the female, 
in the less golden hue of the upper parts, and lighter, less golden tint of the 
yellow of the posterior lower surface. It is, of course, readily distinguish- 
able from Cinnyris ornata blanfordi (Baker)* by its much smaller bill. 
2 For the change of the name of this species from Cinnyris pectoralis to Cinnyris 
ornata, cf. Oberholser, Smithson. Misc. Coll., LX, No. 7, October 26, 1912, p. 18, foot- 
note. 
3 Cyrtostomus pectoralis blanfordi Baker, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, XLI, No. CCLVI, 
January 27, 1921, p. 71 (‘‘Kondol Is., Nicobars’’). 
