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This race is distinguishable from Kittacincla melanura hypolisa, 

 of Simalur Island, and Kittacincla iiiclanura melanura, of Nias Island, 

 by its smaller size and much paler rufous of the posterior lower parts. 

 It is apparently confined to the Pagi Islands. 



The present species has an interesting geographical distribution, 

 since all the subspecies occur, so far as now known, only on islands 

 of the Barussan chain, off the western coast of Sumatra, and on 

 islands in the Java Sea. These races are as follows : 



1. Kittacincla melanura melanura Salvadori. Nias Island, Barussan Islands. 



2. Kittacincla melanura liypoliza Oberholser. Simalur Island, Barussan 

 Islands. 



3. Kittacincla melanura opisthochra Oberholser. Lasia and Babi Islands, 

 Barussan Islands. 



4. Kittacincla melanura pagensis Oberholser. Pagi Islands, Barussan 

 Islands. 



5. Kittacincla melanura nigricauda Vorderman. Kangean Islands and Pulo 

 Mata Siri, in the Java Sea. 



KITTACINCLA MALABARICA PELLOGYNA, subsp. nov. 



SuhspeciHc characters. — Similar to Kittacincla malaharica mala- 

 barica of India, but female darker. Resembling Kittacincla mala- 

 harica interposita/ but larger, especially the wing and bill ; and with 

 more white on the tail. 



Description. — Type, adult female. No. 173 176, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 Bok Pyim, Tenasserim, February 14, 1900 ; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Upper 

 parts blackish plumbeous, except the rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 which are white ; tail black, slightly brownish, the tips of the feathers 

 white; wings rather dark fuscous black, the edges of the primaries 

 and secondaries, with the greater and middle coverts, olive brown, 

 the lesser coverts between slate gray and dark plumbeous ; chin 

 between fuscous and hair brown; sides of tJie head and of neck, 

 together with throat and jugulum, fuscous black, overlaid somewhat 

 with blackish plumbeous ; breast, sides, and flanks, between cinnamon 

 •rufous and tawny, shading to nearly pure white on the middle of the 

 abdomen ; crissum between cinnamon buff and clay color ; thighs dull 

 white ; outer under wing-coverts blackish, margined with neutral 

 gray and whitish ; the remaining portion of lining of wing tinged on 

 the axillars and on the innermost coverts with buff. 



M easurements of type. — Wing, 86 mm. ; tail, 107.5 '■> exposed cul- 

 men, 13.5 ; height of bill at base, 5; tarsus, 24.5 ; middle toe without 

 claw, 16. 



^ Kittacincla malaharica interposita Robinson and Kloss, Journ. Fed. Malay 

 States Mus., X, No. 4, December, 1922, p. 262 (Daban, South Annam). 



