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Nectarinia Javaioica Horsfield 



Trans. Linn. Soc. London 13 (1) : 167, May 1821. 

 =Anthreptes malacensis malacensis (Scopoii). See Chasen, Handlist of 



Malaysian birds, p. 279, 1935. 

 98187. Adult (sex not indicated, but in male plumage). Java. Received 

 from the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), London, which acquired it from 

 the Indian Pvluseum, Calcutta (where it was part of the Horsfield Col- 

 lection). 

 The British Museum label has written, in an unidentified hand, "Cotype 

 of Anth. javanica Horsfield." Gadow (Catalogue of the birds in the British 

 Museum 9: 125, 1884) lists four specimens, received from the Indian 

 Museum, as cotypes of Nectarinia javanica Horsfield, and our skin, acquired 

 about June 1884, is presumably one of those four. 

 Anthreptes malacensis baweasius Oberholser 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 52: 196, Feb. 8, 1917. 

 =Anthreptes malacensis baweana Oberholser. See Chasen, Handlist of 



Malaysian birds, p. 279, 1935; Deignan (ms.) . 

 181590. Adult male. Bawean Island, Java Sea between Java and Borneo. 



Nov. 19, 1907. Collected by William L. Abbott. 

 The author, with one male and one female from Bawean, gave the briefest 

 possible account of the female, but a long and detailed description of the 

 male, and follov/ed this with the comment: "The male of this new form, as 

 is frequently the case in races of Anthreptes malacensis, is not with certainty 

 distinguishable, though it seems to be more clearly yellow on the breast 

 than is usual in examples of Anthreptes malacensis malacensis. The female, 

 however, shows differences, as above set forth, which apparently indicate 

 subspecific distinction." Why the one specimen, of two, admittedly indis- 

 tinguishable from members of other races, should be established as the 

 type, is not easily explicable. 

 Anthreptes malacensis bornensis Riley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 33 : 55, July 24, 1920. 

 211591. Adult male. Pulau Bai (an island in Sandakan Harbor, at lat. 

 5°4>r N., long. 118°06' E.), Sandakan Residency, British North 

 Borneo. Mar. 1, 1903. Collected by Paul Bartsch. 

 Anthreptes malacensis paraguce Riley 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 33: 55, July 24, 1920. 

 =Anthreptes malacensis paraguae Riley. See Delacour, Birds of Malaysia, 



pp. 310, 311, 1947. 

 233332. Adult male. Puerto Princesa, Palawan Island, Philippine Islands. 

 Dec. 14, 1891. Collected by Dean C. Worcester and Frank S. Bourns. 

 Received from the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, where it 

 was No. 3274 of the Menage Collection. 



