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The next name applied is Gallus hankiva, Temm., Pig. et 

 Gall., ii, 1813, pi. 87 ; this is obviously founded on Javan birds; 

 " bengkiwo " being the Javanese (East Java) name for the species, 

 vide Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, 1821, p. 185. 



So much for the synonymy. 



We have examined a series of birds—indubitably wild — shot on 

 the slopes of the Idjen Volcano, Banjoewangi, E. Java, at a height 

 of 5,700 feet, at a distance of more than ten miles from any human 

 habitation. Both the males and the females of this series are 

 distinguishable at a glance from any continental birds we have 

 examined by the dark colour of the neck hackles in the male and 

 by their truncate terminations in both sexes. In the female also 

 the black central areas of the neck hackles are much wider than 

 in the continental birds and the lateral edgings much paler ; the 

 heads of the males are also much darker. 



We have no hesitation in considering that these specimens 

 are typical of Gallus bankiva and in restricting the subspecies to 

 the island of Java. Young males and females, and males in 

 eclipse plumage present exactly the same relative differences as 

 the full-plumaged birds. 



The birds inhabiting N. E. Sumatra, on the other hand, are 

 quite indistinguishable from those from Annani, Cochin-China, 

 E., S.W., S.E., and Peninsular Siam and the Malay Penmsula. 



From the large number of specimens we have examined in 

 the flesh we do not believe that there is any consistent character 

 to be found in the colour of the lappets. Our large series from 

 S.W. and Peninsular Siam, which we are certain are truly wild 

 birds, has them mostly ''red" or ''pinkish red," while one is 

 whitish pink and another white ; the Annamese birds were bluish 

 white. East Siam red and S.E. Siam pink or red, and birds from 

 Koh Mesan, a little island off the coast of S.E. Siam, bluish white. 

 Mr. Siemund, who has shot very large numbers in the neighbour- 

 hood of Kuala lyumpur and Taiping, states that the lappets are 

 usually bluish white. The whole of our series have the posterior 

 portion of the neck hackles rich straw yellow and strongly acumi- 

 nate, showing no signs of the rounded feathers typical of the 

 Javanese birds. 



The races will therefore stand as : — 



I. Gallus ferrugincus fcrrugincus (Gm.). 



Gallus bankiva bankiva, Stuart Baker (part.), Joiirn. Nat. Hist. Soc, Bojti- 

 bay, XXV, 1917, p. 18 et seq. 



Sumatra, Malay Peninsula to Hainan, Westward to Burma. 

 2. Gallus ferrugineus murghi, subsp. nov., postea p. 15. 



Galhis bankiva ferrugineus, Stuart Baker, op. cit., p. 3. 



Peninsular India, North and East to Assam. 



