A REVIEW OF THE SUBSPECIES OF THE EUDDY KING- 

 FISHER, ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA (LINNAEUS). 



By Harry C. Oberholser, 



Of the Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture. 



In order satisfactorily to identify some of the East Indian mate- 

 rial collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott it has been necessary to work out 

 the relationships of all the subspecies of Entomoihera coromanda 

 (Linnaeus). Since this has resulted in the necessity of recognizing 

 several additional races, and in changing the diagnoses and distribu- 

 tion of some others, it seems worth while to put these conclusions on 

 record. For this investigation there have been available some 60 

 specimens, including representatives of all the forms here admitted. 

 For the use of this material the writer is indebted to the authorities 

 of the United States National Museum, the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology in 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts ; and also to Mr. J. H. Fleming, of Toronto, 

 Ontario, Canada, whose collection of exotic birds far exceeds that of 

 any private individual in America. Furthermore, Dr. Leonhard 

 Stejneger, head curator of biology in the United States National 

 Museum, has kindly allowed me the use of his manuscript notes on 

 this species. 



The names of colors here employed are based on Mr. Robert Ridg- 

 way's recently published Color Standards and Color Nomenclature. 1 

 The measurements are all in millimeters, and are taken as explained 

 in a previous publication by the writer. 2 All the specimens examined 

 are entered in the tables of detailed measurements, and those used in 

 the diagnostic averages are indicated. 



The literature of Entomoihera coromanda is meager, and consists 

 chiefly of scattered notes and mention in faunal or systematic papers. 

 The most important notices of the latter kind are as follows : 



Sharpe, R. B. — Monograph of the Alcedinidae, vol. 2, 1870, pp. 

 155-157, pi. 57. 



Sharpe, R. B. — Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, 

 vol. 17, 1892, pp. 217-221. 



i Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, 1912 (= January 16, 1913), Washington, D. C 

 a Oberholser, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 86, April 6, 1914, p. 2. 



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