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pectoralis. Also, Chibia Iwttentotta appears to be generically distinct 

 from the other members of the group, as contended by some recent 

 authors. It has a relatively more slen.der bill, much longer hair-hke 

 frontal plumes, and different wing-formula, the secor.d primary 

 (counting from the outemiost) being decidedly longer than the 

 eighth, instead of equal or shorter. As Chihia liottentotta is the type 

 of Chibia Hodgson, the remaining species will take the generic name 

 Dicruropsis Salvador!.^ 



Measurements of the series of the present new subspecies are as 

 follows : 



Measurements of specimens of Dicruropsis pectoralis solombensis. 



Family ARTAMIDAE. 



ARTAMUS LEUCORYN AMYDRUS, new subspecies. 



Suhspecijic characters. — Much like Artamus leucoryn leucoryn,* but 

 paler on upper parts and jugulum. 



Description.— Type, adult male, No. 181532, U.S.N.M.; Solombo 

 Besar Island, Java Sea, December 4, 1907; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Pile- 

 um and anterior hind-neck dark quaker drab; upper tail-coverts 

 creamy white; remainder of upper surface dark grayish brown, the 

 middle of the back dusky drab: wings and tail sooty black, the outer 

 webs of the secondaries mostly glaucous slate gray, the inner mar- 

 gins of all the wing-quills more or less brownish, and some of the 

 rectrices with very narrow pale brownish tips ; lores and a narrow ill- 



1 Dicruropsis Salvadori, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 88 (type by monotypy, Dicrurus megalornis 

 Gray). 



2 Measured in the flesh by the collector. ^ Type. 



* Lanius leucoryn. Linnaeus, Mantissa Planlarum, 1771, p. 524 (Manila, Luzon I., Philippine Islands). 

 While the original spelling of the specific name here given is evidently an abbreviation, it is practically 

 impossible to determine how Linnaeus would have spelled the remaining portion of the word. In view 

 of at least four such possibilities, it seems much better to use the specific term as he left it, and write now 

 Arlamus leucoryn (Linnaeus). 



