740 Mr. H. C. Robinson on Birds collected on the 



specimen has been first described, we are placed in the 

 awkward dilemma of having to admit either one race only of 

 three, in which latter case the range of subspecific variation 

 in each of the subspecies from the typical form is only 

 half of what it would have been if the type had happened 

 to come from either extreme. So the trinomialist is forced 

 either to become a lumper against his convictions, or to 

 split on even finer distinctions that he usually considers 

 sufl&cient. 



lyngipicus canicapillus. 



lyngipicus canicajnllus (Blyth) ; Hargitt, Cat. xviii. 1890, 

 p. 322 ; Gyldenstolpe, p. 48. 



a. \S' Klong Yai, S.E. Siam. 7 Jan., 1915. 



" Iris ochreous ; bill horny, lower mandible grey ; feet 

 dull olive.'^— C. B. K. 



This specimen has the four central rectrices spotted, not 

 uniform, as is the case with many northern birds which 

 have been separated as /. pumilus (Hargitt, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 599). 



Cymhorhynchns macrorhynchus. 



Cymborkynchus macrorhynchus (Gm.) ; Hume & Davison, 

 Stray Feath. vi. 1878, p. 92. 



Eurylamus lemniscatus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. 

 1822, p. 296. 



Cymborhynchus malaccensis Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Sci. 

 Tor. ix. 1874, p. 425. 



Cymbirhynchus macrorhynchus lemniscatus Hartert, Nov. 

 Zool. ix. 1902, p. 206. 



a,b. (J ? . Klong Yai, S.E. Siam. 7 Jan., 1915. 



" Iris emerald ; bill turquoise-blue, tinged green on the 

 culmen and tomia, lower mandiljle deep yellow edged with 

 turquoise ; feet cobalt." — C. B. K. 



Excluding the Aracan subspecies C. m. affinis Blyth, which 

 in its smaller size and red-tipped tertials stands apart from 

 the other forms, many authorities have divided the Rouge- 

 et-Noir Broadbills inhabiting the Indo-Malayan region into 



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