NO. 6 NEW EAST INDIAN BIRDS — ORERHOLSER 5 



This form of the species occupies at least the northern and middle 

 portions of the Malay Peninsula. Examples from Johore are inter- 

 mediate between Kittacincla malabarica peUogyna and the Sumatra 

 race described below, but are referable to the former. As in many 

 of the subspecies of Kittacincla nialnharica, the racial characters are 

 more evident in the female than in the male. 



KITTACINCLA MALABARICA LAMPROGYNA, subsp. nov. 



Siibspccific characters. — Similar to Kittacincla malabarica pcllo- 

 gyna, from the Malay Peninsula, but female with upper parts lighter, 

 more grayish ; the throat, jugulum, breast, and sides of body, lighter. 



Type. — Adult female, No. 173173, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; St. Luke 

 Island, Mergui Archipelago, January 21, 1900; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



Measurements of type. — Wing, 87 mm.; tail, 11 7.5; exposed cul- 

 men, 13 ; height of bill at base, 5 ; tarsus, 25 ; middle toe without 

 claw, 16. 



Although apparently confined to the Mergui Archipelago, this race 

 is in color somewhat intermediate between Kittacincla malabarica 

 malabarica, of India, and Kittacincla malabarica pellogyna, of the 

 Malay Peninsula. From the former it differs in the darker colors of 

 the female. 



KITTACINCLA MALABARICA MALLOPERCNA, subsp. nov. 



Siibspecific characters. — Allied to Kittacincla malabarica pellogyna, 

 of the Malay Peninsula, but female with upper parts darker, and with 

 more metallic sheen ; breast and sides more deeply rufescent. Male 

 very much like the same sex of Kittacincla malabarica pellogyna, 

 except that the rufous of lower parts is somewhat darker. 



Type. — Adult female. No. 178969, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Sing Kep 

 Island, Berhala Strait, off southeastern Sumatra, May 18, 1901 ; Dr. 

 W. L. Abbott. 



Measurements of type. — Wing, 85 mm.; tail, 99; exposed culmen, 

 15 ; height of bill at base, 6; tarsus, 24; middle toe without claw, 16.5. 



This is apparently the form of Kittacincla malabarica that inhabits 

 the mainland of Sumatra as well as the islands along its eastern side, 

 with the exception of Banka and Billeton. 



KITTACINCLA MALABARICA ABBOTTI,' subsp, nov. 



Siibspecific characters. — Similar to Kittacincla malabarica mallo- 

 percna, but posterior lower parts much darker and more uniformly 

 rufous. 



' Named for Dr. W. L. Abbott. 



