20 BULLETIN 98, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
+ DENDROPHASSA VERNANS ADINA, new subspecies. 
Subspecific characters.—Similar to Dendrophassa' vernans vernans, 
from the Philippine [slands, but much larger; male duller, averaging 
less greenish above, and of a decidedly paler yellow on abdomen; 
female averaging duller, much less greenish (more plumbeous) 
above, and much paler, duller, less greenish and yellowish below, 
the center of abdomen generally whitish. 
Description.—Type, adult male, No. 171020, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Mata, 
Anamba Islands, August 29, 1899; Doctor W.L. Abbott. Pileum, sides 
of head, chin, and throat, plumbeous, rather darker on occiput, the 
post-ocular region washed with vinaceous; a collar around hind neck 
and jugulum, broadening on the sides of the throat and neck, vina- 
ceous heliotrope; interscapulum, back, scapulars, and rump, dull 
olive green, with a plumbeous wash, and rather brighter posteriorly ; 
upper tail-coverts isabella color, gradually merging into the olive 
green of rump; tail slate gray, with a broad subterminal band of 
black, and tipped narrowly with slate color; wing-quills, except ter- 
tials, slate black, the outer primaries brownish black distally, all the 
quills shading inwardly into slate gray basally; tertials and wing- 
coverts grayish olive green, like the back, the bend of wing washed 
with plumbeous, the greater coverts and tertials conspicuously mar- 
gined distally on outer webs with pale yellow; chest tawny ochra- 
ceous; lower breast and upper abdomen light yellowish apple green; 
sides deep plumbeous washed with greenish; lower abdomen and 
flanks sulphur yellow, the latter broadly streaked with greenish slate 
color; lower tail-coverts light reddish chestnut; under surface of wing, 
including wing-coverts and axillars, slate gray. 
Doctor Abbott obtained six males and five females from the islands 
of Siantan, Mata, Mobur, and a small islet near Pulo Mobur. The 
males show no differences in color between specimens from the differ- 
ent islands, although there is some individual variation in the depth 
of shades both above and below. The same is true of the females, 
but the individual variation in them is more marked. One female, 
No. 170928, U.S.N.M., from Pulo Siantan, is much more greenish 
above than any of the others, as well as darker below and washed with 
brownish across the breast; and it is evidently immature, as the 
tawny-tipped feathers on the sides of the neck dicate. According 
to data on the labels of the males, the iris is sometimes red, some- 
times in two rings, the inner blue, the outer pink; the feet ‘‘red” or 
“dark red;”’ ‘‘bill leaden; cere yellow.’”’ Females have the iris yel- 
low, the feet red. On the islet off the coast of Pulo Mobur, where 
Doctor Abbott took some of these birds, hundreds of them roosted 
regularly. 
1 For the change of the generic name Osmotreron Bonaparte to Dendrophassa Gloger, see Oberholser, 
Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 7, October 26, 1912, p. 2. 
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