no. 2090. REVIEW OF ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA—OBERHOLSER. 651 



Measurements of specimens of Entomoihera coromanda minor. 



Museum and No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



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U.S.N.M. 1816962 

 U.S.N.M. 1704482 



U.S.N.M. 159082. 

 U.S.N.M. 1819062 

 U.S.N.M. 1451362 



Male 



...do.... 



[Male]... 



Female . 



[Female] 



Female 

 Juve- 

 nal. 3 



Pasir, eastern 

 Borneo. 



Selitar, 9 miles 

 from Singa- 

 pore, Singa- 

 pore Island, 

 Straits Settle- 

 ments. 



Singapore, Sing- 

 apore Island. 



Segah River, 

 eastern Bor- 

 neo. 



Labuan Island, 

 northern Bor- 

 neo. 



Tataan, Tawi 

 Tawi Island, 

 Philippine Is- 

 lands. 



Jan. 15, 1909 

 May 18, 1899 



Dec. 3,1912 



,1877 



Oct. 30, 1891 



W. L. Ab- 

 bott. 

 do.... 



U.S. Expe- 

 dition to 

 Japan. 



H.C.Raven 



H. Low . . . 



mm. 

 247 



254 



mm. 

 98.5 



99.5 



103 

 100 



104 

 102 



mm. 

 59 



60 



61.5 



58 

 62 

 59.5 



mm. 

 49 



52.5 



48.5 

 51.5 

 51 

 49.5 



mm. 

 15.7 



16 



15 

 15.5 

 16 

 17 



mm. 

 17.5 



18.5 



17.5 

 19.5 

 19.3 



U.S.N.M 



D. C. Wor- 

 cest er 

 and F. S. 

 Bourns. 





18 



i Measured in the flesh by the collector. 2 Tj sec j ra measurement averages on p. 649. 3 Full grown. 

 ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA RUFA (Wallace). 



Halcyon rufa Wallace, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, p. 338 (Makassar, Celebes). 



Chars, subsp. — Much like Entomothera coromanda minor, but deci- 

 dedly larger throughout; sides and flanks more noticeably washed 

 with magenta; and median light stripe of lower back and rump 

 darker, more bluish. 



Measurements. — Male: 4 Wing, 107 mm.; tail, 68.5; exposed cul- 

 men, 46.5; tarsus, 17.7; middle toe, 20.2. 



Female: 5 Wing, 112-113 (average, 112.5) mm.; tail, 67; exposed 

 culmen, 53.5-54 (53.8); tarsus, 16.5-18 (17.3); middle toe, 19-20 (19.5). 



The following measurements are abstracted and averaged from 

 Meyer and Wiglesworth's table, 6 juvenal and immature birds omit- 

 ted, and no distinction made with regard to sex: 7 



Wing, 110-127 (average, 117.2) 8 mm.; tail, 68-75 (71); bill from 

 nostril, 43-51 (47.6); tarsus, 15-18 (16.3). 



Type-locality. — Makassar, Celebes. 



Geographical distribution. — Celebes and neighboring islands : North 

 to the Sangi and Talaut Islands; and east to the Xulla Islands ; includ- 

 ing the Peling Islands, the Togian Islands, and the islands of Buton, 

 Talissi, and Lembeh. 



Remarks. — While I have been unable to examine a large series of 

 specimens of this form, and have taken its measurements chiefly from 

 Meyer and Wiglesworth, 6 it has been so well described by other 



< One specimen, from Celebes. 

 6 Two specimens, from Celebes, 

 e Birds of Celebes, vol. 1, 1898, p. 281. 

 i Seventeen specimens, from Celebes and its islands. 



s The apparent great wing-length of these specimens may be due, in part at least, to a different method 

 of measuring. 



