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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. 48. 



as compared with, even the largest forms of the species that we have 

 no hesitancy at all in separating it subspecifically. In color, however, 

 it superficially very much resembles Entomothera coromanda rufa, 

 from Celebes, much more so, indeed, than it does Entomothera coro- 

 manda coromanda from the adjacent Malay Peninsula. To this 

 resemblance Doctor Hartert has already called attention. 1 



The juvenal plumage of Entomothera coromanda mizorhina is much 

 darker, both above and below, than that of Entomothera coromanda 

 coromanda. 



The difference between birds from the Andaman Islands and the 

 mainland of India (Sikkim and Tenasserim) has already been noted 

 by Hume. 2 



Measurements of specimens of Entomothera coromanda mizorhina. 



Museum and No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 







■a . 



s| 





i 













* 



03 



En 



*3 



03 

 EH 













mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



J. H. Fleming 



[Male]*.. 



North Andaman 



Jan. — , 1905 



C Ander- 



114 5 



67 



58 



17.5 



20 



19247.3 





Island, Andaman 

 Islands. 





son. 













J. H. Fleming 



Juv 



Rutland, South An- 



Oct. 9, 1905 



B.'B. Os- 



111 



68 



59 



19 



21.5 



19248. 





daman Island, An- 

 daman Islands. 





maston. 













3 Used in measurements on p. 645. 



4 Type. 



ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA NEOPHORA, new subspecies. 



Chars, subsp. — Resembling Entomothera coromanda coromanda, but 

 wing and tail decidedly shorter; lower parts darker; and breast more 

 washed with magenta. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 179191, U.S.N .M.; Tapanuli 

 Bay, northwestern Sumatra, February 19, 1902, Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Upper parts, including sides of head and neck, rather dull cinnamon 

 rufous, the wings and tail darker, between hazel and chestnut brown ; 

 everywhere more or less suffused with magenta, most conspicuously 

 on cervix, back, scapulars, and wing-coverts; a long, broad stripe on 

 the median portion of rump and lower back, silvery bluish white; 

 breast and lining of wings cinnamon rufous, the former slightly washed 

 with magenta; chin light ochraceous buff; remainder of lower surface 

 light cinnamon rufous, palest on the middle portion of abdomen; "iris 

 dark brown; eyelids red; feet and bill red." 



Measurements. — Male: 5 Total length (in flesh), 254-255 (average, 

 254.5) mm:; wing, 100-103.5 (101.8); tail, 58.5-62 (60.3); exposed 

 culmen, 50-51.5 (50.8); tarsus, 14.8-15.8 (15.3); middle toe, 17-19.5 

 (18.3). 



i Vogel pal. Fauna, vol. 2, pt. 1, February, 1912, p. 887. 



* Stray Feathers, vol. 3, January, 1874, p. 169; October, 1874, p. 494. 



6 Two specimens, from western Sumatra and eastern Sumatra. 



