( 585 ) 



32. Rhipidura celebensis sumbensis subsp. nov. 



Three skins, all marked "cf ," from Sumba differ from Rh. celebensis Biittik. 

 from Makassar (?), Djampea, and Kalao (cf. Biittik., Notes Leyden Mus. XV. 1893, 

 p. 79 ; antea, p. 173), in decidedly longer wings and generally larger size. I cannot 

 with confidence state any constant difference in colour, but the three skins from 

 Sumba are not very good. While the wings of the type in the Leyden Museum 

 measure 66 mm., and those of my four skins from Djampea and Kalao 66, 67, and 

 68 mm., those from Sumba have wings of 72 and 73 mm. Their tails measure 

 90 98 mm., against about 85. 



33. Terpsiphone sumbaensis A. B. Mey 



er. 



T. s., Meyer in J.f. 0. 1894, pp. 90, 93. 



T. floris (partim), Btittikofer in Weber's Reise Band III. Ornith. Samml. 

 pp. 293298 (1893). 



Blittikofer separated from T. affinis a series of specimens from Sambawa, 

 Flores, Sumba, and Ombay under the name T.floris, type from Flores. A. B. 

 Meyer separated again T. sumbaensis from Sumba. Doherty sent a fair series 

 of the latter. They are large birds, and have nothing to do with T. affinis. In 

 very old males the shafts of the rectrices are white towards the tips and they show 

 no black margins at all, while younger males have the shafts of the rectrices quite 

 black and black edges to all the rectrices. Young males have also much more black 

 on the remiges. Wings of adult males 100 103 mm., of females about 95. 

 Having seen no specimens from Flores, I cannot judge myself of the differences 

 between T.floris and T. sumbaensis, which seem to be conspicuous, though slight. 



34. Myiagra rufigula Wall. 



A series of both sexes. In some the beak is about one millimetre broader at 

 base than in our specimens from Djampea and Kalao, but there is no other difference 

 between them. " The iris is dark brown ; feet black ; maxilla black ; mandible slaty 

 blue with black tip." 



*35. Hirundo rustica gutturalis (Scop.). 

 Two females. " Iris dark brown ; beak black ; gape yellowish ; feet black." 



36. Pitta maria Hartert. 



1896. P. m., Hartert in Bull. B. 0. C. V. p. 47. 



This Pitta has been compared by me, I.e., with P. irena, but perhaps looks 

 more like P. vigorsi. It agrees with that latter species in its narrow brownish 

 stripes on the sides of the crown, which pass into a very pale blue behind, also in 

 having a smaller white speculum in the wing, and the deep brown underside. It 

 differs, however, from P. vigorsi in having the whole chin and throat black, this 

 colour running downwards in a point. The red middle line on the abdomen is not 

 mixed with black. From P. irena it differs in its deeper brown underside, its small 

 white speculum in the wing (only a small concealed white spot on the fifth quill !), 

 the much greater extension of the black throat, and the red on the middle of the 

 abdomen not being mixed with black. Oilmen 23 mm. ; wing 109; tarsus 35'6. 



One skin, not sexed, from the interior of Sumba. 



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