BIRDS OF THE ANAMBA ISLANDS. By 
ineligible pre-Linnaean work. This being the case, the species must 
take the name Gracula javana, because Eulabes javanus Cuvier! is the 
next available specific designation. This change Doctor Hartert has 
already explained. 
~+ LAMPROCORAX PANAYENSIS HETEROCHLORUS, new subspecies. 
Subspecific characters.—Similar to Lamprocorax panayensis striga- 
tus, from Java, but very much larger, and plumage of male through- 
out more bronzy or oily green. 
Description—Type, adult male, No. 170996, U.S.N.M.; Pulo 
Mobur, Anamba Islands, August 26, 1899; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 
Entire plumage, excepting the remiges and rectrices, metallic bottle 
green, with a slight bronzy tinge, the chin and throat with a some- 
what purplish sheen; remiges and rectrices biackish on upper sur- 
face, with steel greenish, bluish, and purplish reflections; lower 
surface of tail and wings blackish clove brown, the under wing- 
coverts and axillars margined with metallic green. 
This new race is very distinct and separable at a glance from 
Lamprocoraz panayensis strigatus of Java by the characters above 
given. It is, however, more closely allied to Lamprocorax panayensis 
panayensis, from which, in the male, as comparison with a large 
series of Philippine specimens shows, it differs in its more grassy; 
less oily or bronzy green upper parts, and particularly in its decidedly 
less bronzy lower surface, which is also much brighter green, par- 
ticularly on the posterior portions, where Lamprocoraz panayensis 
panayensis is nearly always distinctly grayish. 
Four specimens are in the collection, as follows: 
Adult male (type), No. 170996, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Mobur, August 26, 
1899. Length, 229 mm. 
Adult male, No. 170997, U.S.N.M.; islet near Pulo Mobur, August 
26,1899. Length, 216 mm. 
Immature male, No. 170933, U.S.N.M.; Pulo Siantan, August, 
1899. 
Immature male, No. 170998, U.S.N.M.; islet near Pulo Mobur, 
August 26, 1899. Length, 203 mm. 
The type (No. 170996) is in perfect plumage; and the other adult 
male (No. 170997) is nearly so, though molting the under wing- 
coverts, with some of the wing-quills and body feathers. One of 
the immature birds (No. 170998) is in the juvenal plumage, which 
closely resembles that of the adult female, but is molting many of 
the body feathers. The other immature is similar but is more 
extensively glossy green above, has the breast nearly solid green, 
and the posterior lower parts much more mixed with glossy green; 
it is molting wing, tail, and body feathers. 
1 Régne Anim., vol. 1, 1829, p. 377 (Java). 2 Novit. Zool., vol. 9, 1962, pp. 439-440. 
