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Tiga javanensis exsul snbsp. uov. 

 We might then distinguish : 



Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Malay Peninsula : Tiga javanensis javanensis, 

 Tenasserim to Bengal and South India : Tiga javanensis intermedia. 

 Bali (and possibly East Java ?) : Tiga javanensis exsul. 



4. Sasia abnormis (Temm.). 



Dr. Finsch adds a note saying that there is no proof for the occurrence of 

 this bird on Java. Temminck, however, says distinctly that he has received the 

 type from Java, where it was collected by Messrs. Kuhl and Hasselt. 



Mr. Prillwitz sent us a female shot on Mount Gedeh, on February 4th, 1899. 

 He marked the iris as " brownish, the feet yellow, bill black, mandible yellowish." 

 We must therefore accept Java as the true original locality of Temminck's 

 " Picumnus abnormis." 



Comiiaring our Java example with a series of five Bornean specimens, I find 

 that the bill of the Java bird is shorter and narrower towards the tip than in the 

 majority of those from Borneo, and that the wing is barely as long as in the 

 smallest Bornean e.xample. It is probable that a series of Javan individuals will 

 show enough differences to separate the Bornean and Javan forms. In this ease 

 the name Sasia everetti, based on a young bird from Lumbidan, Borneo, might be 

 used for the Bornean form (cf. Orn. Monatsher., 1898, jj. 91). 



An adult and young individual from Nias (Raap coll.) have their bills so 

 high, thick and long, that this form requires a name. I have no series from 

 Sumatra for comjiarison. The Nias bird may be named 



Sasia abnormis magnirostris suljsp. nov. 



We have thus the following distribution in the Malay archipelago : 



Java : S. abnormis abiinrmis. (No white stripe backwards from the eye. 

 Upperside from middle of crown olive, slightly more golden on rump. Bill at base 

 4 mm. high.) 



Borneo : 5. abnormis everetti. (Like the former, liut the liill apparently larger, 

 at base 5 mm. high. Doubtfully separable !) 



Nias : S. abnormis mngnirostris. (Bill considerably larger, at base about 

 6 mm. high.) 



Sumatran and Malaccan birds to be compared 1 



5. Arachnothera longirostris prillwitzi subsp. nov. 



There are now in Mr. Rothschild's collection 36 specimens of A. longirostris, 

 i.e., 6 from Java, 12 from the Natuna Islands, 2 from the Lingga Islands, 9 from 

 Borneo, 1 from Si Oban, 1 from Malacca, and 5 from Burmah and India. 



This fine series shows at a glance that the Javan birds are much more golden 

 yellow on the breast and abdomen, and have longer and stronger beaks. The latter 

 measure, in a straight line from end of feathering on forehead to tip, 38 to 43 mm., 

 against 32 to 38 mm. in e.xamples from Borneo, the Bunguran group, and Malacca. 

 It is possible that a larger series may prove that the birds from Assam, Tenasserim, 



