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The former closely resembles C.jacohiiiiis ]iica, but the throat and sides of the neck 

 show some duskv streaks, aud the underside a more or less distinct grey shade. 

 This form replaces C. Jacobiniis pica in Cape Colony and Natal, and occnrs in the 

 Transvaal and Portuguese East Africa (Zomba). A good series from Bengnella is 

 api)arently intermediate between pica and /ii/popiiwrus, having very conspicuous 

 dusky streaks on the throat, while there is generally not the distinct greyish tinge 

 on the abdomen and breast. If it should be desirable — and 1 should say it would — 

 to distinguish this form by a special name, perhaps the name caroli would be 

 available, though the type would then be an exceptionally large specimen. 



The Indian C. jacobiiuis jacobiuiis presents also some other features of interest. 

 First of all it ranges northwards to Persian Baluchistan, where, according to 

 Zarnduy, it propagates. There is a fine adult male from the liiver Bampur in the 

 Tring Museum, shot by Zarnduy on July 4, 1S08. 



Then this bird ranges to Ceylon, where, like so many other (!eylonese birds, 

 its dimensions are less. In the Cut. B. Brit. Mas. xi.\. p. 'J18, the smaller size of 

 ('eylonese examples has already been commented on, and I find that the wings 

 of three adult birds are only 138, 140, aud 141 mm. long. There is not one before 

 me with a wing so short as even 141, except from Ceylon. In his article on the 

 birds he collected in Ceylon Madanlsz {Tenm'szrtriij:i Fdzetek, \x. ]>. 'i'i'S) gives 

 the wings also only 138, 137, and 141) mm. I cannot help, under these circum- 

 stances, naming the Ceylon form, and I propose for it the name 



Clamator jacobinus taprobanus, subsp. nov. 



Type <? ad., N.W. Ceylon, 26. xi. 1869, E. Holdsworth coll., in the Tring 

 Museum. 



The nomenclature of the possibly separable forms would thus be as follows : 



1. Clamator jacobinus jacobinus Bodd. 



Cnucou hupe ile la cote de C'oroinaiiM, Daubenton, PI. Eiil. 872. 



Ciieulii.'! jacobinus Boddaert, Tablf PI. Eiil. p. 53 (1783— based on Daubentoa's pi. 872 !) 

 Cucula.^ melaiiuleiiciix Gmelin, Si/sl. Nal. i. 1. p. 410 (1788— Coi'omandel ; also b.ased on Daiibenton's 

 pi. 872, and the text of " BufEon," or rather Montbeillard). 

 India, north to Baluchistan (cf. Blanford, B. India). 



2. Clamator jacobinus pica (Hempr. & Ehr.). 



Cumlus Pica Hemprich & Ehrenberg, Si/mb. J'/u/s. fol. v (1828— Ambukol in Dongola). 

 Cvccyzus Uucumehs Brehm, All'j. D. nuturli. Zeit. 18j0 p. 4o9 (" Bei Chartum oder doch in 

 Sennaar "). 



Tropical Africa generally (cf. Reichenow, B. Afr. ii. p. 78). 



3. Clamator jacobinus caroli Norman. 

 Coccystes caroli Norman, Ibis, 1888, p. 407 (Gabun). 



? Bengnella to Gabun (see above). 



4. Clamator jacobinus ki/popinarus Cab. k Heine. 

 Coccystes hyjMjiiiiarus Cabania & Heine, Mas. Hein. iv. p. 47 (1802 — Cape), 



South Africa, where, however, C.j. pica occurs also occasionally. 



5. Clamator jacobinus taprobanus Hart. 

 Ceylon (see above). 



(" Cocojstes brazzae " Oustalet appears to be Pachijcoccijx valii/iis of Reichenow. 

 Cf. Cat. Brit. Mas. xix. p. 22i3.) 



