NO. f) NEW EAST INDIAN BIRDS OP.EKHOESER 9 



Description. — Type,.adult male, No. 95332, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Quay- 

 mos, Choung, Thoiingyin River. Tenasserim, February 2, 1880 ; C. 

 T. Bingham, original number, 295. Pileum deep mouse gray ; upper 

 parts, including the edges of the wing-coverts, yellowish warbler 

 green, the rump and upper tail-coverts being most yellowish ; tail 

 between hair brown and fuscous, the feathers edged with yellowish, 

 between aniline yellow and sulphine yellow ; wings fuscous, the edges 

 of the primaries, secondaries, and tertials between sulphine yellow 

 and lemon chrome; side of the head and of neck like the cervix; chin 

 and throat, light mouse gray, but the middle of throat and of jugulum 

 pale mouse gray ; posterior lower parts rich lemon chrome, a little 

 dull, the sides of the body washed with olivaceous ; lining of wings 

 between penard yellow and picric yellow. 



Mcasnrcmcnis of type. — Wing, 61.5 mm.; tail, 55.5; exposed cul- 

 men, 7; tarsus, 13 ; middle toe without claw, 7.5. 



This subspecies ranges from middle Tenasserim north apparently 

 to Nepal. How far east or west it extends we are not, with our 

 present material, able to determine. 



CULICICAPA CEYLONENSIS ANTIOXANTHA, subsp. nov. 



Suhspecific characters. — Similar to Culicicapa ceylonensis calo- 

 chrysea, from northern Tenasserim, but darker above, including the 

 pileum ; back usually less yellowish ; and throat darker. 



Type.- — Adult male. No. 169979, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; Khaw Sai Dow, 

 Trang, Lower (PVninsular) Siam, February 8, 1899; ^^- ^- L. 

 Abbott. 



Measitrcnients of type. — Wing, 60 mm. ; tail, 48.5 ; exposed cul- 

 men, 8.5 ; tarsus, 10.3 ; middle toe without claw, 7. 



This race occupies probably all the southern portion of the Malay 

 Peninsula. Birds from southern Tenasserim' seem also referable 

 here, though verging toward Culicicapa ceyloiioisis calochrysea. 



CULICICAPA CEYLONENSIS PELLOPIRA, subsp. nov. 



Siihspecitic characters. — Resembling Culicicapa ceylonensis anti- 

 o.vantha, from the Malay Peninsula, but with the yellowish edgings 

 of tail darker, more olivaceous; posterior lower i)arts more richly 

 golden yellow ; sides and flanks more strongly tinged with olive. 



Type. — Adult male. No. 220127, U. S. Nat. Mus.; Tjibodas, Mt. 

 Gede, 4,500 feet altitude, Java, September 3, 1909; William Palmer. 



Measurements of type. — Wing, 61 mm.; tail, 51.5; exposed cul- 

 men, 8.5 ; tarsus, 12.3 ; middle toe without claw, 7.8. 



