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6 (?<?, 1 ? Mt. Wuchi, April— May 1903 (No. 53). 

 1 (J, 3 ? ? S. Hainan, December 1903 (No. 53). 



1 without e.Kact lociilit}' ; has oue of the rectrices white. 



Differs from T. c. runornm in having a much more olive npperside, and the ear- 

 coverts darker. It is like 7". r. canorum on the underside, but in the coloration of 

 the uppersidc points towards 7'. c. taivinu//i from Formosa. 



2n|, Enicurus sinensis Gould. 



Grant, P Z. .f. 1000, p. 474. (Recorded for tho first time from Hainan, from a specimen collected 

 by Whitehead) 



5 <J ? Mt. Wnchi, March— May 1903 (No. 176). 



10 <? ? Cheteriang, January 1904 (No. 17(5). 



There are no differences between birds from Hainan and China. 



202. Kittacincla macrurus minor Swinh. 



CittocitKla macrura var. minor Swinhoe Ibis 1870. p. ,344 (H.iinan). 

 Citlocincla brericauda Grant, Ibis 1890. p. 584 (Hainan). 

 Cittncincla minor Grant, P.Z.S. 1000. p. 474 (Hainan). 

 Kittacincla macrurus minor Hartert, Nor. Zonl. 1002. p. 572 (Hainan). 



7 (?<?, 2 ? ? No-Tai, September 1902 (No. lOo). 



2 <?<?, 2 ? ? Lei Muimon, January 1903 (No. 105). 

 1 J Namro, March 1903 (No. 105). 



A fine series of the Hainan race of A', macrurus. 



203. Copsychus saularis (saularis ?) (L.). 



Gracida sanlaris Linnaeus, Syst. yai. ed. x. p. 100 (1758 — " Habitat in Asia." Ex Edwards, Raius, 



Albin. As original locality should be accepted Bengal, ex Edwards). 

 Copsychus saularis Grant, P. Z. S. 190O. p. 474. 



A series from Kinngchau, February and March 19ii2 (No. 3). 

 The geographical variation of i\ saularis is most interesting, but not very clearly 

 defined, and therefore not quite easy to understand. Unfortunately Mr. Gates, 

 when writing the Birds of India, vol. ii., did not make use of the splendid 

 opportunity of working it out cleanly with the help of the fine series in the British 

 Museum. This miglit be forgiven, because the geographical forms have not 

 been closely studied in that work, except when they were very conspicuous, bat in 

 a special review of Indian Birds the supposed synonyms referring to Indian races 

 should have been quoted. This, however, has been omitted in the case of Copsychus 

 saularis and several others. 



In India the under wing-coverts and axillaries are white, the females pale on 

 the uj)per surface. In South India the females are said to be darker, as a rule, 

 while in Ceylon they seem to be invariably darker. 



In the Andamans the under wing-coverts have black centres, and the females 

 have a darker back. Moreover these birds are rather smaller than Indian ones. 

 The flanks (of the males at least) are washed with rusty brown. 



In Southern Tenasserim and the Malay Peninsula the under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries arc dark in the middle, and the females are dark above. The Malaccan 

 race seems to be the same as the Sumatran one — i.e. musicus. 



In Java and Borneo we are confronted with a remarkable fact: many specimens 

 are entirely black on the under-surface, or show only a few white feathers on the 

 vent, while other sj)ecimens have the whole abdomen white, like Indian, Ceylonese, 



