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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. 54. 



Measurements of specimens of Kakatoe pariulus abbotti. 



1 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



'■ Type. 



Family ALCEDINIDAE. 



SAUROPATIS CHLORIS CYANESCENS Oberholser. 



Sauropatis chloris cyanescens Oberholser, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 52, Feb- 

 ruary 8, 1917, p. 189 (Pulo Taya, off the southeastern coast of Sumatra). 



One adult male, No. 181492, U.S.N.M., taken, December 4, 1907. 



This does not differ from Bawean Island birds. It is in worn 

 plumage, and shows evidence of molt among the contour feathers and 

 rectrices. It measures: Total length (in flesh), 263 mm.; wing, 110; 

 tail, 71.5; exposed culmen, 48; tarsus, 16. 



Family CAMPEPHAGIDAE. 



PERISSOLALAGE, new genus.^ 



Generic characters. — Similar to Lalage Boie, but bill, in both verti- 

 cal and horizontal aspects, longer and relatively more slender (more 

 turdine); culmen less conspicuously curved, and more sharpely 

 ridged; tail decidedly longer; lower tail-coverts much shorter, cover- 

 ing only about basal one-third of rectrices; spurious (first) primary 

 relatively as well as actually much shorter and narrower; third and 

 fourth (counting from outermost) primaries longest, the second 

 shorter, equal to the fifth and very much longer than the sixth. 



Type. — Perissolalage clialepa, new species. 



PERISSOLALAGE CHALEPA. new species. 



Specific characters. — Female similar to same sex of Lalage nigra 

 (=terat), but the terminal portion of tail-feathers more extensively 

 white ; the lesser wing-coverts conspicuously edged with cinnamome- 



3 From TTtpiaabs, rairabilis; and Lalage (XaXa-yij, loquacitas). 



