486 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. 55. 



parts ; and, while it is paler than the darker examples of the Bornean 

 race, we have specimens from Borneo that match it perfectly. The 

 description given by Buffon,^ and also that by Latham,^ which 

 latter is merely a translation of Buffon's, agree with d'Aubenton's 

 plate. From the above facts it will be evident that the name Alcedo 

 javana Boddaert would be without violence applicable to some speci- 

 mens of either the pale Philippine race or the Bornean bird; but in 

 view of the uncertainty thus involved, it is preferable, unless we en- 

 tirely discard the name as unidentifiable, to allow it to remain on the 

 form that the first revisers selected. In this case the pale Philippine 

 race will continue as RaTnphalcyon capensis gigantea (Walden), and 

 the Bornean form as Ramphalcyon capensis javana. Consequently 

 Ramphalcyon capensis innominata Van Oort becomes a synonym of 

 Ramphalcyon capensis javana (Boddaert), 



Family HEMIPROCNIDAE. 



HEMIPROCNE LONGIPENNIS PERLONGA (Richmond). 



Macropteryx perJonga IIichjcond, Proc. U. S. N:it. IVIus., vol. 26, February 

 4, 1903, p. 502 (Simnlur Island, western Sumatra). 



Three specimens : 



Adult male, No. 179726, U.S.N.M. ; Sibabo Bay, October 22, 1902. 

 Total length in flesh, 225 mm. "Iris dark brown ; bill black ; feet gray- 

 purple." 



Adult male, No. 179728, U.S.N.M. ; Sibabo Bay, October 21, 1902. 

 Total length in flesh, 220 mm. " Bill black, feet dull dusty purple." 



Adult female. No. 179727, U.S.N.M. ; Sibabo Bay, October 24, 1902. 

 Total length in flesh, 222 mm. 



All these agree with the type series. This seems to be a very dis- 

 tinct form, though but a subspecies of Hemiprocne longipennisy 

 since it is connected by individual variation. 



Family MUSCICAPIDAE. 



MUSCITREA GRISOLA NESIOTIS Oberholser. 



Muscitrca (jrisola ncsiotis Oberholser, Smiths. Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 7. 

 October 26, 1912, p. 11 (Sibabo Bay, Simalur Island, western Sumatra). 



One specimen, the type of this subspecies, an adult male. No. 

 179929, U.S.N.M., is in this collection. It was taken at Sibabo Bay 

 on October 24, 1902. 



This island race is distinguishable from Muscitrea grisola grisola 

 of the Malay Peninsula, by its darker anterior lower parts ; darker, 

 more brownish (less grayish) pileum; darker, more rufescent re- 

 maining upper surface, the outer edges of the wing-quills being 

 especially more rufescent. 



iHlst. Nat. Ois. (ed. Montbeillard), vol. 13, 1780, p. 280. 

 3 Gen. Synop. Birds, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1782, p. 617. 



