168 MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



The type locality decides the question: the name M. d. 

 robin son I can only apply to birds from Selangor and those which 

 agree with them, viz., birds of the Malay States. Those from more 

 northern parts of the Peninsula, though associated by Baker with 

 these, are different. 



264. Xantholaema haemacephala indica (Lath.). 



Jiucco indicus, Lath. Ind. Oru. i, 17D0, p. 205 (India). 



Xantholaema haemacephala, A., p 155 (Tavoy to Bankasoon); C. ii, 

 p. 136 ; B., p. 75 (Puket or Junk Seylon) ; F., 44 (Tran^;) ; H., 

 p. 95 (Bandou) ; G., p. 149 (Petchaburi and Rajaburi) ; Robinson 

 & Kloss, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. viii, pt. ii, 1918, pp. 

 142, 143 (Sumatra) ; L., p. 101 (Junk Seylon; Ghirbi ; Pulau 

 Panjang); I., p. 101 (Koh Lak); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ Gen. 

 (2) vii, 1889 p. 432 (Malewoon) ; Williamson, Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Siam, ii, 1917, p. 325 (S. W. and Peninsular Siam). 



Xantholaema haemacephala indica, Stuart Baker, Ibis, 1919, p. 221; 

 M., p. 431 (Peninsular Siam). 



S. Namchuk, Pakchan Estuary, Peninsular Siam, 24 Feb- 

 ruary 1919 (No. 4200). 



-T, $. Koh Lak, Rajburi, Peninsular Siam, 1-3 April 1919 

 (Nos. 4925, 5011). 



" Iris hazel, orbital ring crimson lake ; bill black, pale at 

 base ; feet crimson." 



Total length d, 155, 164; $,161; wing d, 84, 24; 9,80; 

 tail 6, 38, 36; ?, 38; tarsus 6, 18, 20; ?, 21; bill from gape 

 6, 23, 23; 5, 23 mm. 



Baker's conclusions are in the main the same as ours. In the 

 absence of specimens from the Philippines we refrained from dividing 

 the species into races; but as he has now shown that the Philippine 

 bird has a very much larger bill, X. h. indicus is correctly indicated 

 as the name for the continental race. 



We cannot, however, agree that the continental and Sumatran 

 races are identical. We have now compared over thirty sjDecimens 

 of the latter with an equal number of the former, and find that in 

 all the Sumatran birds the yellow patch below the scarlet one on the 



A. Hume & Davisou, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. £• O. (iranl, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 1905. 



B. Miillor, Die Ornis der Insel Salanga, 188'2. F. Koliinson and Kloss, Ibis, 1910-11. 



C. Oates, Birds Brit. Biu-mah, Vols, i & ii, 1883. G. CTairdner, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1915. 



D. Bonhoto, P. Z. S. 1901, Vol. i. H. Kobinson, Journ. V. M. S. Museums, \, 1915 



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