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Habitat. — Yap Islands, Western Carolines. 

 Measurements. 



4h 



* indicates the type specimen. 



Remark. — The subspecies is known only from Yap Islands, 

 but I may say that it probably occurs also on the Mackenzie group 

 (one of the small groups of islands in Western Carolines). 



A list of the subspecies o^ Aplonis opaca in the islands of Mic- 

 ronesia. 



1. Aplonis opaca opaca (Kittlitz). Type loc. Kusaie, Eastern 

 Carolines. 



Habitat. — Caroline Is.: Kusaie, Ponape (not typical). 



2. A. opaca ain^a Momiyama, subsp. nov. Type loc. Toroas, 



