ON GERYGONE- AND EURYLAIMUS-SPECIES. 207 
NOTE XII. 
ON GERYGONE- AND EURYLAIMUS-SPECIES FROM 
JAVA AND FROM SUMATRA 
BY 
Dr. E. D. VAN OORT. 
Among a collection of birds from Western Java, collected 
for our Museum through the good offices of Mr. H. Jacobson, 
there are examples of two species, which offer slight dif- 
ferences with specimens from other parts of our Archipelago, 
so that it seems to me necessary to describe one of them 
as new subspecies and to explain, that the name given to 
the other one, must be restricted only to the form from Java. 
Six specimens of a Gerygone I determined as G. mo- 
diglianti Salvadori, but as our birds did not fully agree 
with the description by Count Salvadori (Ann. Mus. Civ. 
Genova, XXXII, 1892, p. 52) I sent one specimen to 
that gentleman, witb the request to compare it with the types 
of G. modiglianii. Count Salvadori most kindly, answered 
me: »l have compared your Gerygone with two typical 
specimens of my G. modiglianii; although very similar it 
differs in having the upper part and the sides of the 
head somewhat paler and the lores decidedly more white. 
The differences are not great, but if constant, as most 
probably they are, your bird belongs to a distinct form.” 
As the colour of the upper parts is the same and also 
the white loral spot is conspicuous in five old birds, four 
males and one female, I describe here the form from Java 
under the name of: 
Gerygone modiglianti jacobsoni nov. subsp. 
Types: co, Moeara karang near Batavia, 17 November - 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XT. 
