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tainly suggests reversion to a white-tailed ancestor and indicates 

 that the black tail of the island form is a recently acquired char- 

 acter. 



It gives us much pleasure to name this fine shama for our col- 

 league, Dr. Thomas Barbour, to whose generosity and foresight 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology is indebted for the collection 

 from Maratua Island. 



Artamus leucorhynchos leucorhynchos (Linn6). 



Three adults — one male and two females. 

 Cinnyris sperata (Linne). 



One adult male; two adult females. 



Comparison with a series of ten adult males from the Philip- 

 pines reveals no characters on which we can base a separation. 

 In the absence of Philippine females suitable for comparison, we 

 are unable to comment on the two adults of that sex sent in by 

 Mjoberg from Maratua Island. 



Cinnyris hasselti (Temm.) of Borneo is a very different species 

 and requires no comparison. 



Anthreptes malacensis mjobergi, subsp. nov. 

 Twenty-eight specimens: adults and immatures, both sexes. 



Type. — No. 235952, Museum of Comparative Zoology, adult male, from 

 Maratua Island. Collected March, 1926, by E. Mjoberg. 



Characters. — Adult male : similar to that of A.m. borneensis Riley, of northern 

 Borneo, but much larger; cheeks and postocular region without a trace of 

 olivaceous but nearly concolor with throat; maroon on wing-coverts and 

 scapulars deeper and more extended; yellow of under parts more intense. 

 Similar also to A. m. wigelsworthi Hartert, of the Sulu Islands, but slightly 

 larger; much brighter yellow below; and lacking the broad olive edges of the 

 secondaries. Adult female: similar to the female of borneensis, but larger, and 

 with the median under parts more brilliantly yellow. 



Measurements . 



No. 



Sex 



Wing 



Tail 



Tarsus 



Bill to base of forehead 



235930 



Male 



75 



49 



18 



22 



235935 



n 



70 



50 



19 



21 



235943 



a 



71 



51 



19 



21 



235947 



a 



73 



53 



19 



22 



235948 



it 



71 



52 



19 



21 



235950 



" 



72 



51 



20 



23 



235951 



<( 



71 



53 



20 



21 



235952 1 



'type) 



74 



52 



19.5 



21 



235953 



it 



70 



53 



19 



20 



235955 



n 



71 



51 



18.5 



21 



235929 



Female 



66 



48 



19 



20 



235934 



(i 



66 



46 



19 



19.5 



235946 



it 



66 



45 



18 



20 



