no. 2090. REVIEW OF ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA— OBERHOLSER. 647 



Female: 1 Total length (in flesh), 251 mm.; wing, 103-111 (aver- 

 age, 107 2 ); tail, 58.5-62.5 (60.5); exposed culmen, 52.5-54.5 (53.5); 

 tarsus, 17; middle toe, 19.2-20.5 (19.9). 



Type-locality. — Tapanuli Bay, northwestern Sumatra. 



Geographical distribution. — Sumatra; and probably also the island 

 of Banka. 



Remarks. — This new race is readily distinguishable from Ento- 

 mothera coromanda mizorhina, of the Andaman Islands, by reason of 

 its much smaller size, decidedly paler lower parts, somewhat lighter 

 upper surface, and less heavy magenta wash on the breast. These 

 color differences appear to obtain in both young and adult. The 

 juvenal plumage appears to be very similar in color to the same stage 

 of Entomothera coromanda coromanda. One specimen, from Sumatra, 

 but without date, in the United States National Museum (No. 1 13027) , 

 is in rather peculiar transition plumage. It is apparently a male, 

 which has acquired the dark under surface, magenta-washed breast, 

 heavily magenta-tinged cervix, back, and sides of neck, which charac- 

 terize the adult; but still retains the deep blue rump, dull brownish 

 crown, dull brownish wings and scapulars of the juvenal plumage. 



Specimens of Entomothera coromanda from Sumatra have heretofore 

 been considered identical with those from Borneo, but present com- 

 parison shows them to be subspecincally different. Since the type 

 locality of apparently the only name that could by any possibility 

 apply to the Sumatra form, Alcedo coromanda minor Temminck and 

 Schlegel 3 , is Borneo, as hereinafter shown, 4 the Sumatra bird requires 

 a new designation, which we have provided above. 



Measurements of specimens 



of Entomothera coromanda 



, neo 



phon 



I. 























3 





CD 



Museum and No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



1 



tab 









O 













+j 



H 



a 



a 





T3 













o 





cs 



« 



03 















Eh 



& 



H 



w 



Eh 



a 













mm. 



mm. 



vim. 



mm. 



mm. 



mm. 



U.S.N.M. 179191 «. 



Male?... 



Tapanuli Bay, 

 western Su- 

 matra. 



Feb. 19, 1902 



W. L. Ab- 

 bott. 



254 



100 



62 



50 



14.8 



17 



U.S.N.M. 181097«. 



...do 



Rupat Strait, 

 eastern Su- 

 matra. 



Mar. 2,1906 



do 



255 



103.5 



58.5 



51.5 



15.8 



19.5 



U.S.N.M. 1791926. 



Female, 

 vixad. 



Tapanuli Bay, 

 western Su- 

 matra. 



Feb. 20, 1902 



do 



251 



111 



62.5 



54.5 



17 



19.2 



U.S.N.M. 1810966. 



Female, 

 juv.s 



Aru Bay, eastern 

 Sumatra. 



Dec.ll, 1905 



do 





103 



58.5 



52.5 



17 



20.5 



U.S.N.M. 113027.. 



[Male, 

 vixad.] 



Sumatra 









99 



58 



52.3 





















1 Two specimens, from western Sumatra and eastern Sumatra. 



2 Probably much too high, due to the abnormally large size of one of the two specimens measured, 

 s Fauna Japonica, 1842, p. 76. 



* See p. 650. 



6 Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



9 Used in measurement averages on pp. 646-647. 



1 Type. 



8 Full-grown, though in juvenal plumage. 



