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PROCEEDINGIS OF TUE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. 54. 



The five birds, all adult, obtained by Doctor Abbott are in good 

 plumage, and show only slight individual variation. There seems to 

 be no difference in size between male and female. Two of the females, 

 No. 181426 U.S.N.M., December 12, 1907, and No. 181427 U.S.N.M., 

 December 10, 1907, are each molting one or two of the wing-quills. 

 The colors of unfeathered parts, taken from the fresh birds, and 

 given as the same on the labels of both sexes, are as follows: ''Eye- 

 lids and feet yellow; iris dark brown; bill greenish jade color, base 

 and cere green." Measurements of all the specimens are added 



below. 



Measurements of specimens of Butreron capellei passorhina. 



' Measured in the flesh bv the collector. 



2 Tv-pe. 



Family ALCEDINIDAE. 



SAUROPATIS CHLORIS CYANESCENS Oberholser. 



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

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



One immature female, No. 181491, U.S.N.M., taken, December 

 12, 1907. 



This is nearly adult, but still has the dull-colored upper surface and 

 dusky scale-hke markings on the lower surface. It is molting both 

 remiges and contour feathers. It is subspecifically the same as the 

 birds from Bawean Island. Its measurements are: Total length (in 

 flesh ^), 258 mm.; wing, 112; tail, 70; exposed culmen, 46; tarsus, 



15 5 



Family PYCNONOTIDAE. 



PYCNONOTUS BRUNNEUS ZAPHAEIIS, new subspecies. 



Suhspecific characters. — Similar to Pycnonotus hrunneus hrunneus * 

 from the Malay Peninsula, and of about the same size, but upper sm-- 



8 Measured by the collector. 



* For this use of Pycnonotus hrunneus Blyth, see Oberholser, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 98, June 30, 1917, 

 pp. 44-45. 



