bangs: birds from the LIU KIU ISLANDS. 265 



Color. — Adult ^, head all round, throat, and jugulum blue black, rather more 

 purplish on throat than on crown ; back and scapulars glossy prune purple ; 

 upper tail coverts and tail blue black ; wings black edged with purplish brown ; 

 middle of belly and under tail coverts white; sides and flanks heavily washed 

 with dark purplish brown ; axillas dull brownish black with white tips ; under 

 primary coverts black ; under wing coverts white streaked with pale brown. 



Female, crown blue black ; sides of head and cervix dark gray; throat dark 

 gray becoming paler on jugulum ; back chestnut, many of the feathers glossy 

 purplish maroon at ends; tail dark purplish brown; wings hair brown edged 

 with hazel, deeply so on secondaries and tertials ; middle of belly and under 

 tail coverts white; sides and flanks washed with purplish brown; lining of 

 ■wing as in the ^, except primary coverts are hair brown instead of black. 



Measurements. — Adult ^, type, wing 88 ; tail, to end of middle rectrices 

 246.5, to end of longest other rectrices 113 ; greatest width of outer rectrix, 

 8.8 ; tarsus 14.4 ; exposed culmen 15.4. 



Adult 9 , topotype, No. 37,-364, wing 82 ; tail 80 ; tarsus 14 ; exposed cul- 

 men 15.4 ; width of outer rectrix 9.2. [In adult males of T.princeps the wing 

 ranges from 92 to 94, and the greatest width of the outer rectrix is 11.4. In 

 the adult females the wing measures from 88-90, and the greatest width of the 

 outer rectrix is 12.] 



Remarks. — This appears to be the first record of a Paradise Flycatcher from 

 the Liu Kiu Islands. Besides being considerably smaller than a T. princeps, it 

 diff'ers noticeably in its short, narrow, pointed primaries and narrow rectrices, 

 and in having the 4th primary longer than the 5th. Like so many of the 

 breeding birds of these islands, it is a well-marked island species. 



Zanthopygia owstoni,^ sp. nov. 



Type. — Mus. Comp. Zool., No. 37,367. 



One male from Ishigaki, June 20. 



Characters. — Nearest to Z. narcissina of Japan, but wing much shorter, 

 due chiefly to the shortening of the primaries ; v:ing formula different — 2nd 

 primary shorter than 6th, 3rd about equal to 5th, 4th longest. In Z. narcissina 

 the 2nd primary is much longer than 6th, 3rd equals 4th, these two longest and 

 longer than 5th. In color the island bird is very difi'erent, the back is dark 

 green, not black, the yellow frontal band extends all the way across base of 

 culmen, the throat and breast are clear gamboge yellow, not orange. 



From Z. zantliopyrjia (Hay) the species can be distinguished by its yellow 

 eyebrow (white in Z. zanthopygia') and diff'erently marked wing. 



Color. — Male, apparently fully adult (9 unknown), narrow frontal band, 

 extending directly across base of culmen and thence over eye to the supra- 

 auricular region, gamboge yellow ; pileum, cheeks, back, and scapulars dusky 



1 Named in honor of Mr. Alan Owston. 



