648 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.48. 



ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA PAGANA, new subspecies. 



Chars, subsp. — Similar to Entomothera coromanda neophora, from 

 Sumatra, but wing and tail averaging longer; lower parts and also 

 upper parts darker. 



Description.— Type, adult male, No. 179762, U.S.N.M.; North 

 Pagi Island, western Sumatra, January 4, 1903; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Upper surface, 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 brightly on 

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

 stripe on the middle of the rump and lower back, silvery bluish 

 white; lower parts chiefly cinnamon rufous, paling somewhat medially 

 on the posterior portion, passing into ochraceous buff on the chin, and 

 deepening to tawny on the breast and Hning of wings; the breast 

 somewhat washed with magenta; "bill and feet coral." 



Measurements. — Male: 1 Total length (in flesh), 260 mm.; wing, 

 107; tail, 62.5; exposed culmen, 50; tarsus, 15; middle toe, 19.5. 



Female: 2 Total length (in flesh), 253-270 (average, 261.5) mm.; 

 wing, 105-106 (105.5); tail, 64-66.5 (65.3); exposed culmen, 52.5-53 

 (52.8); tarsus, 16; middle toe, 18.5-20 (19.3). 



Type-locality. — North Pagi Island, Pagi Islands, northwestern 

 Sumatra. 



Geographical distribution. — The Pagi Islands and the Batu Islands, 

 of the Barussan chain, off western Sumatra. 



Remarks. — Additional material and a better understanding of the 

 various forms of Entomothera coromanda, particularly those from 

 Sumatra, Singapore, and the Malay Peninsula, show that the bird from 

 the Pagi Islands, probably including also that of the Batu Islands, 

 off the western coast of Sumatra, is an undescribed subspecies. 

 The only example from the Batu Islands is in post-juvenal plumage, 

 but it seems to belong to the same race as birds from the Pagi Islands. 

 It is practically identical in color with a bird from the Andaman 

 Islands (No. 19248, J. H. Fleming, Kutland, South Andaman Island, 

 October 9, 1905), in corresponding plumage, though if anything 

 rather darker. 



The present subspecies is, in both adult and juvenal plumages, 

 practically identical in color with Entomothera coromanda mizorhina 

 of the Andaman Islands, but is distinguishable by its much smaller 

 size, particularly of the bill. 



1 One specimen, from North Pagi Island, western Sumatra. 



2 Two specimens, from North Pagi Island, western Sumatra. 



