NO. 6 NEW EAST INDIAN BIRDS OBERHOLSER 7 



McasiirciiicHts of type. — ^^ ing, 43 mm. ; tail, 43 ; exposed culmen, 

 13 ; height of bill at base, 3 ; tarsus, 20 ; middle toe without claw, 9.5. 



No specimens of this species from the island of Sumatra have been 

 examined, but this is probably the subspecies occurring there. 



PYCNONOIIDAE 



AEGITHINA TIPHIA MICROMELAENA, subsp. nov. 



Subspccific characters. — Similar to Acgitliina tiphia tiphia, from 

 Bengal, India, but with black of upper surface confined to pileum 

 and cervix; remainder of upper parts darker; and size somewhat 

 smaller. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 180548, U. S. Nat. AIus. ; 

 Tanjong Tedong, Banka Island, June 5, 1904; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Pileum, cervix, and scapulars (excepting the white inner tuft), 

 glossy, slightly bluish black ; back olive green ; upper tail-coverts 

 bluish black ; tail black with a slightly bluish sheen ; primaries and 

 secondaries, fuscous black, their inner margins basally white, the 

 outer webs black on their basal portion, the median area somewhat 

 narrowly edged with yellowish white ; rest of the wing black with a 

 slight bluish sheen, but 1;he middle and greater coverts broadly tipped 

 with white, and the tertials edged externally with yellowish white 

 and warbler green, internally with white ; lores, a narrow super- 

 ciliary stripe to the middle of the eye, all the anterior lower parts to 

 the breast, inclusive, together with the sides of the head and of neck 

 up to the middle of the eye, rich gamboge yellow ; rest of lower parts 

 lemon yellow, but the f^ank tufts white, the sides tinged and mixed 

 vdth olive green ; posterior lower part of thighs washed with yellow ; 

 rest of thighs dull yellow ; lining of wing white, but the inner edge 

 light lemon yellow. 



Measurements of type. — Wing, 61.5 mm.; tail, 47.5; exposed cul- 

 men, 16.5 ; tarsus, 19 ; middle toe without claw, 11. 



So far as now determinable, this new race is confined to the island 

 of Banka, off the eastern end of Sumatra. 



AEGITHINA TIPHIA DAMICRA, subsp. nov. 



SuhspeciHc characters. — Resembling Aegithina tiphia microme- 

 laena, from the island of Banka, but smaller; pileum and cervix, 

 olive green like the back, instead of black; and yellow lower parts 

 duller, more tinged with greenish. 



Type. — Adult male. No. 178144, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Smitau, Kapuas 

 River, southwestern Borneo, December 14, 1893; J. Biittikofer. 



