( 50 ) 



immature male shot at 2:")iio feet elevation on December 27th, 1898, on Mount 

 Gedeh. Neither of these birds has anything to do with Falco erm^sti. They are 

 F. pere(/rinus, or rather an eastern form of the latter (/'. leiicocicm/s Brehm), if such 

 an eastern subspecies can be distinguished, a question which 1 hope soon to be able 

 to study. 



2. Falco severus Horsf. 



Dr. Fiusch is apparently responsible for the error that the Javau F. severus is 

 called Falco papuanusia the List of Javan Birds, for he has added a footnote, saying 

 that the birds from Java, the Snnda Islands, and New Guinea have been separated 

 as F. pnpuanus. This is an evident error, as tlie ty])e of /'. xfKcnis is from Java 

 (Horsf. Trans Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 135), so that the Javan bird can only be called 

 F. severus, or F. severus severus. Meyer it Wiglesworth (Birds Celebes I. pj). 83, 84), 

 distinctly say repeatedly that the birds from the Snnda Islands, the typical severus, 

 are intermediate between the Papuan and Indian extremes, which they name Falco 

 severus pnpuanus and /'. severus indicus. 



I have no Javan birds before me, but, except in having a darker rump and tail, 

 onr New Guinea birds do not differ from those from India. If the three forms, 

 F. severus indicus from India, F. secerns severus from the Snnda Islands, and 

 F. severus papuonus from New Guinea can be separated, they can only be regarded 

 as subspecies (see Mey. & Wigl. I.e.), and it is not desirable to confer on them 

 binomial names, thus regarding them as "good species." 



The distribution in the " Hand-List " (I. p. 274) is not right, as severus is said to 

 spread over India to New Guinea, while papuanus and indicus are given as separate 

 species from " S.E. New Guinea " and •' Calcutta." If these forms are recognised, 

 then F. severus must in every case be restricted to the Simda Islands ! 



3. Tiga javanensis (Ljung.). 



Although first described from Java and bearing the name of that island, this 

 Woodpecker does not seem to be very common there, as among all the skins 

 received from Herr Prillwitz there has not yet been one specimen. 



I cannot understand why the birds from Burmah, Pegu and India are not kejit 

 separate ! Their wings are 1 to 2 cm. longer, their bills larger, and they have two 

 names to choose from ! 



On the other hand, I cannot recognise Dubois' T. borneonensis, as individuals 

 like the type are not rare, and occur, with intermediate colourations, in various 

 parts of Borneo and Java. 



More interest is attached to the Bali birds. The four before me are all widely 

 cross-barred below, each feather having tu-o black cross-bands, evidently more 

 develojied than in 7'. borneone/i.^is. The two females have besides a red jiatch on 

 the nape ! This is not found in any females from Borneo and other places. 1 

 have seen about two dozen. Moreover, the bill is wider in the four Bali birds. 

 It is most (mzzling that some birds from Borneo (Labuan) are nearly as well barred 

 as my Bali birds, and that some Javan ones show a certain amount of cross-barring. 

 The Bali bird can therefore only be called a subspecies. I propose for it the name : 



