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(The status of this form is somewhat doubtful. Except by a somewhat jialer 

 back and rump, slightly darker abdomen and jjerhaps generally longer wings, it does 

 not differ from M. cagayaneiisis. It differs from typical hornensls only by the less 

 rufous, more olive-tinged upperside, and can hardly be more than a mountain-form of 

 the latter, though according to labels in the Whitehead collection both forms would 

 occur on the Benkoker ; but these labels are open to doubt, as they are not the 

 original ones, being rewritten on specially printed labels, apparently in Mr. Grant's 

 handwriting, the original tickets being taken off. If both should really occur together 

 they might be good species, as they are apparently not sexes or stages of age.) 

 9. M. hornensis cagayanensis Guill., 1885. Cagayan, 8ulu Is. 

 10. M. hornensis javaiiica Cab., 1857. Java. 



(This firm is also very closely allied to hm'tiensis.) 

 The closely allied but well separable genus CyanocUrma comprises only : 



1. Cyanodervia erythroptei-a (Blyth), 1842. From 8. Tenasserim, through 



the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. 



2. C. hicolor (Blyth), 1865. Borneo and Labuan. 



Q^ Mixwnis ei-ythronota " Reichenow, J. f. 0. 1895, p. 356, said to be from Java, 

 where no Cyanoderma whatever occurs, refers apparently to an immature example of 

 C. bicolor with erroneous locality. I have seen a specimen of this species labelled 

 "Sumatra," which had been sold by the " Maison Verreaux " in Paris. This same 

 institute may possibly be the originator of other erroneous labels. Not enough doubt 

 can be cast upon and not enough warning can be given against Veneauxian localities, 

 in the interest of science.) 



62. Orthotomus cineraceus Blyth. (an subsp. ?) 



Orllivlomus chienweiis Blyth, Joiini. Ax. S,„: Beiir/. XIV (1845) p. 589 (not 489) ("common at 

 Malacca ").—Vorderm., Nat. Tijihrlir. Xe,l. hid. LII (1893) p. 197. 



Kangean W., N.E. (Nos. 96, 230.) (In moult.) Local name: " tjitjinanka." 

 Two females, one with half the bill shot off, the other with a very long bill. 

 Labels : " Iris gelb, Kiisse und Schnabel schwarz " ; " Iris rothgelb, Fiisse und Schnabel 

 flei.schfarben." Unless gi-eat inaccm'acy is supposed, I think the first label must be 

 somehow erroneous. The bill of the one specimen appears longer than those of twenty 

 specimens from various localities, and also Vorderman quotes the culmen 14 mm., 

 which seems long. The back is somewhat pale. All these differences may be indi- 

 vidual peculiarities, and we must ha\e more material to decide if the Kangean form 

 can be separatetl or not. In any case it is most interesting that 0. cineraceus and 

 not the Java form, 0. septum, occurs on Kangean. The latter has been given as 

 occurring in Sumatra in the Cat. B. VII p. 228, apparently on account of a label 

 from '"M. Verreaux." I am inclined to think that is erroneous. 



63. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.). 



Si/h-iK risliculii Temm., .)fiui. il'Oiii. I p. 228 (1820) ("Quelques provinces du Portugal et de 

 I'Espagne"). 

 Kangean E., \V. (Nos. 109, 175.) Local name : " tjitjikoret." 



64. Cittocincla nigricauda ^'orderm. 



Cillocincla mgneawla Vorderm., Nat. Tijd.v/u: Neil, hid LII (1893) p. 197 (Kangean). 



]\Ir. Prillwitz sent a fine series from Kangean E., W., N. (Nos. 47, 62, 63, 74, 

 81, 82, 83, 105, 106, 124, 125, 136, 152, 153, 154, 171.) '-Iris dunkelbraun, Fiisse 

 fleisclifiirben, Schnabel schwarz." Local name: " meninten." 



