Horváth Géza (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 9. (Budapest 1911)

Madarász, Gy.: Description of some new birds from Ceylon

IX. ANNALES MU SEI NATION ALIS HUNGAEICI. 1911. DESCRIPTION OF SOME NEW BIRDS FROM CEYLON. By Dr. J. v. M

ADARÁSZ. (Plate XVI. and 3 textfigures.) Since my article «Die ornith. Ergebnisse meiner Beise nach Ceylon» was published in the «Természetrajzi Füzetek» 1897, in which however attention was not paid to the insular and subspecific forms, I have described some new forms of this interesting Island in different Periodicals. As the collection of the Hungarian National Museum increased in material for comparison, it was able to make fourther descriptions of Ceylonese birds. I take this opportunity of giving the descriptions of three new insular forms from Ceylon, which I propose to name as follows : Corone anthracina n. sp. Cor one macrorhyncha (nee WAGL.), L

EGGE Birds of CeyL p. 346 (1880) ; M

ADARÁSZ

. Természetr. Füz. XX. p. 331 (1897). Much smaller than C. macrorhyncha (WAGL.) and C. lcvaillanti

r LESS, and with a more purplish gloss ; the bases of the feathers varying from brownish-grey to dusky-grey. Length of the female 410—420, wing 265—285, tail 160—175, bill 50—55, tarsus 45—50 mm. The drawings on the following page shows the shape of the bill of C. anthracina

, C. levaillanti and C. japonensis. Apus singalensis n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 4.) Cypselus affinis (nec GRAY), L

EGGE

, Birds of Ceyl. p. 319 (1880) : Micropus affinis, M

ADARÁSZ

, Természetr. Fiiz. XX. p. 370 (1897). Above and below sooty-black, with brownish gloss on the head and greenish on the back, wings, tail, chest and belly ; front hardly lighter than the top of the head ; the under tail-coverts brown with greenish gloss; throat and rump white. Wing 131 —133, tail 50—55 mm. Apus singalensis differs from the Indian and East-African specimens of A. affinis, GRAY (Plate XVI. fig. 3), not only by its darker coloui