WESTERN JAVA AND KRAKATAU. 125 
No, 534, 538, 615, Qo’, Soengei Asem, Krawang, 5 
October 1908. 
— 535, 536, 614, o& o'Q, Boengin, Krawang, 6 Octo- 
ber 1908. 
— 587, 539, Qo, Soengei Pakis, Krawang, 4 Octo- 
ber 1908. 
Malay name: tjékakak. 
There is no doubt that „le Martin-pescheur du Cap de 
Bonne Espérance” of Brisson (Ornith. IV, 1760, p. 488), 
upon which Linnaeus founded his Alcedo capensis, is the same 
species as that, which Sharpe named in 1870 Pelargopsis 
fraseri. Though the name is not in keeping with the habitat 
of the species, yet it must be used. The nomenclature of the 
species of the genus Ramphalcyon, as proposed by Mr. Ober- 
holser (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Washington, XXXV, 1909, 
p. 657) is not entirely correct, in some cases he is wrong 
in naming the subspecies and I believe that the number 
of subspecies he recognizes, is too large. The subspecies 
which inhabits Borneo is called by Sharpe Pelargopsis leu- 
cocephala (Gmelin) and by Oberholser Ramphalcyon capensis 
javana (Boddaert). Gmelin based his species upon „le 
martin-pécheur a tête et cou couleur de paille” of Buffon 
(Hist. Nat. Ois. VII, 1780, p. 190) and upon the coloured 
plate of „le martin-pêcheur de Java” of Daubenton (PI. enl. 
757). If the bornean form and Buffon’s bird were the same, 
than this form must be called javana, as Boddaert before 
Gmelin has named the bird mentioned by Buffon Alcedo 
javana (Table Pl. enl. 1783, p. 47). But the description 
by Buffon as well as the coloured plate by Daubenton 
clearly show, that the bornean form can not be meaned 
here, the only form to which the descripton and also the 
plate are applicable is the pale form of the south eastern 
and central Philippine Islands, which is described in 1874 
by Walden as Pelargopsis gigantea. The form from these 
parts of the Philippine Islands must bear the name javana 
Boddaert ; it is a miserable fact that a Philippine bird has 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. X XXII. 
