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6. Anuropsis malaccensis docima Oberholser. 



Anuropsis malaccensis docima Oberholser, Smithsonian Mi.sc. Coll., vol. 74, 

 no. 2, p. 10, Sept. 27, 1922. ("Tanjong Tedong, Banka Island" [southeastern 

 Sumatra].) 



Geographic distribution. — Island of Banka, off southeastern Sumatra. 



7. Anuropsis malaccensis poliogenis (Strickland). 



Brachypteryx poliogenis Strickland, Contributions to ornithology, no. 5, p. 93, 



1849. ("Borneo.") 

 Myiothera poliogenys Strickland, Contributions to ornithology, no. 5, p. 93 (in 



text), 1849 (Boie MS.). ("Borneo.") 

 Anuropsis malaccensis sordidus Chasen and Kloss, Journ. f. Orn., Ei'giinzungs- 



band 2, p. 119, Oct. 29, 1929. ("Bettotan near Sandakan, British North 



Borneo.") 



In this connection the type of Brachypteryx poliogenis Strickland, 

 which is in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phil- 

 adelphia, has been examined and found to belong to this Bomean 

 race, for which this name should therefore be used. 



Geographic distribution.- — Central, northern, and eastern Borneo. 



8. Anuropsis malaccensis saturata Chasen and Kloss. 



Anuropsis malaccensis saturata Robinson and Kloss, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 

 40, no. 247, p. 68, Jan. 30, 1920. ("Tinjar River, Boram District, N. 

 Sarawak, 500 feet.") 



Geographic distribution. — Western Borneo. 



ALCIPPORNIS BRUNNEICAUDA EPIPOUA, new subspecies 



Subspecific characters. — Allied to Alcippornis brunneicauda brunnei- 

 cauda Salvadori {Alcippe cinerea Auct.), but upper parts brighter, 

 the back, scapulars, and rump lighter and decidedly more rufescent or 

 ochraceous (less grayish); lower surface averaging somewhat paler, 

 more purely whitish. 



Description.— Type, adult male, U.S.N.M. No. 174810, Bunguran 

 Island, Natuna Islands, July 18, 1900; Dr. W. L. Abbott. Pileum 

 between benzo brown and hair brown; cervLx betw^een hair brown 

 and mouse gray; back, scapulars, and rump rather reddish Sac- 

 cardo's umber; upper tail coverts Brussels brown; tail bro\vn, 

 terminally between mummy brown and Front's brown, shading 

 proximally to Front's brown, and the feathers margined externally 

 with argus brown; wings between olive-brown and clove brown, the 

 exposed edges of tertials and of wing coverts hke the back, those of 

 the inner primaries and the outer secondaries similar, but more red- 

 dish, the inner edges of the primaries dull brownish white; sides of 

 head and of neck like the cervix, but somewhat paler; lower parts dull 

 white, the breast and jugulum faintly mottled with pale drab and tilleul 

 buff; sides and flanks tinged with brownish, betw^een pale wood brown 

 and drab, crissum lightly washed with the same; lining of wing dull 

 brownish white; "Iris brownish gray; bill dark horn brown becoming 

 pale fleshy beneath at base; feet brownish leaden." 



