Twelve specimens, both sexes, Lubang near Luzon, Mindanao, Palawan, Camiguin, Camotes, Basilan, Panay, Mindoro, and Cagayan de Sulu, June, July, and August.

Type.—M. C. Z. 64,329 adult ♂, Lubang, near Luzon, 6 July, 1913. W. Cameron Forbes.

Characters.—Similar to L. niger niger (Forster), (type-locality "in India Orientali" which I will farther restrict to Singapore, being as likely as anywhere else to have been whence the type actually came), but larger; in color the adult ♂ differing in the sheen of the head and back being darker and more purplish, less greenish; the rump slightly darker gray and the tibia grayer, less whitish. The adult ♀ decidedly grayer less brownish above—deep neutral gray (the upper parts in L. nigra nigra are hair-brown to Chaetura drab).

Remarks.—Birds from Java are small and appear to be quite like those from Singapore and the southern Malay peninsula. The Borneo bird is a little larger and the one female before me is gray above as in the Philippine form.

Measurements.

Lalage niger mitifica Bangs.

No.SexLocalityWingTailTarsusCulmen
from Base
86,669♂Panay93692018
86,668♂Basilan947020.517.5
86,671♂Camotes93702118
86,667♂Camiguin95732019
57,520♂Cagayan de Sulu92692019
64,329♂Lubang927120.519
64,330♂"93702018.5
64,331♂Palawan95692017.5
64,328♀Lubang93—2118.5
64,327♀Mindanao92722119

Lalage niger niger (Forster).

No.SexLocalityWingTailTarsusCulmen
from Base
33,994♂Singapore85681916
34,119♀Kelang82631917
60,164♂Java87.5662017
60,163♂"88702016
60,166♂"85682116
60,160♀"87.5671918
60,159♀"86692016
60,167♀"83642017
12,182♀"876119—

Aegithina tiphia aequanimis, subsp. nov.