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As re;^ards (limnisicjiis, tli<; above Hories aj^rco well with llio 

 typo, though it slujuM be noted that its tail is only pailially grown, 

 ami, therefore, unduly short. It will l)e seen, however, that one of 

 our birds has a wing of 107 nun., which falk very little short of the 

 upper liniit for liinuilayan birds, a male from Darjiling measuring 

 1 OU mm, and one from the Abor Hills, collected by S. W. Kemp, 

 1 70 nnn. 



If the race is to be maintained, and it seems fairly entitled to 

 rank as a subspecies, it will rest on its somewhat pale colouration 

 above and below, especially on the Hanks. 



The species was fairly common at Hat Sannk alou"' the 

 course of the litth^ stream which was Hanked by extremely large fif 

 trees. The birds were very wild, Hew very high and were therefore 

 haml to get. They were very noisy, uttering the usual penetrating 

 woodpecker shriek. 



Stuart Baker has })Ut forward the suggestion that C. f. pierrei 

 Oust., and C. f. ivniyi honi the mountains of Selang(jr and Perak, 

 may possibly prove to be one and the same. We can assure him that 

 they are two diH'erent birds. To begin with, C. f. plerrei is deci- 

 dedly larger, the wings of adult males averaging alx>ut 155 mm,, with 

 females almost the same; while C. f. wrayi has a wing of 147 mm. 

 in males and 142 in females. In the second jjlace, C. f. wmyi is a 

 very much darker bird, the yellow malar patches in the male much 

 restricted and not extending across the chin, the stripes on the throat 

 in adult Ijirds almost non-existent, and the yellow nuchal crest much 

 shorter and paler in colour: the bill, again, is diH'erent in colour, 

 being recorded as " bluish lead, greener in the lower mandible," or 

 " slato colour"; whereas in C. /. 2>'t'r>v'/ it is "maxilla black, sidps 

 of base grey ; mandible grey, tip and edges black." 



A readily undersUmdable misprint reipiirtjs correction, as liable 

 to cause confusion in the future. S. Baker records a female tcrayi 

 from Salanga which is a synonym of the island of Puket, Tougka, or 



!• (jyldeiisluliH,-, Kuii^'l. Sv. Vet. Akatl. Hiimll. M. Baker, Jcmni. X. H. Soc. Sinui, iii, lOV.K 



56, Xo. '2, 191B. ' (rtrslparl). 



J. U«i1>ins<>n, .louni. K. M. S. Mas. vii, 1917. Baker, Journ. X. H. Sw. Siaiii, iii, 1919. 



K. Kloss. H>is, 1918. (secoiiil imrtt. 



t. Itobiiison and Kloss, Jotirn. X. H. Soc. Slam, M. I. Baker, Journ. X. H. Soc. Siaiii, iv. HhJO. 



iii, 1919. (Ihinl ijarli. 



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