452 MR. C. BODEN KLOSS ON 
P. i. herberti, subsp. nov. In bestowing this name upon it Baker 
seems to have made a second mistake. 
I suggest that the bird is only the Javanese Prinia polychroa 
(Temm.), [ Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vii, p. 202], with several 
good specimens of which I have compared the Siamese skins. 
Chalcoparia singalensis koratensis, Kloss t. ¢., p. 218. 
Chalcoparia singalensis singalensis, Baker, Ibis 1918, p. 596 
( ab inferentio ). 
The more I see of this species (and the number of specimens 
now available from both south and north is considerably greater 
than when I proposed the new race), the more I am assured that 
two good forms exist. 
The make-up of skins might be responsible, as Mr. Baker 
suggests, for what I will call fictitious disposition of pattern, but 
not for fictitious tones of colour, and I do not consider that the 
attempt to explain away differences, which were at first unhesitat- 
ingly accepted, is well judged. 
The Tenasserim birds mentioned by Tweeddale are probably 
the same as the Siamese, for I now think that author accidentally 
reversed some of the localities when writing, using northern for 
southern and vice versa. 
Buchanga atra longus, Kloss, Ibis, t. ¢., p. 227. 
Dicrurus ater longus, Baker, Nov. Zool., xxv, 1918, p. 299. 
Iam sure that neither this race, nor any one allied to it, 
occurs in “the extreme south and east of the Malay Peninsula”, as 
stated by Baker. 
Buchanga leucophea, Kloss, Ibis, t. ¢., p. 227. 
Dicrurus leucopheus leucopheus, Baker, Nov. Zool, t. ¢., p. 293. 
Mr. Baker says that “birds from Johore and Singapore are 
undoubtedly true lewcophweus” (line 5 from bottom of page). This 
also isa statement that must be challenged: Ido not think that 
the form occurs in either locality or anywhere near by. 
sere i  aly-i9* ae paradiseus, Kloss, t. c., p. 228; Baker 
( partim ), Nov. Zool., t. c., p. 300. 
This name was based by Linnewus on material from Siam, but 
now-a-days such a broad typical locality is much too indefinite in 
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