NO. 2232. BIRDS FROM ISLANDS IX THE JAVA SEA—OBERHOLSER. 197 



former has a tarsus that appears almost booted, so slight are usually 

 the indications of scutellac, while in Turdinus macrodactylus the 

 scutellations are very distinct. Also the tarsi are weaker; the feathers 

 of throat not stiff and scale-like; and the lower tail-coverts reach 

 much more than halfway to the ends of the rectrices, instead of 

 much less than halfway in Turdinus. The name Malacocinda Blyth 

 (type, Malacocinda abhotti Blyth)* is the proper generic term for this 

 species and its allies. 



The subspecies of Malacocinda abhotti now number five, the ranges 

 of which are as follows : 



Malacocinda abhotti abhotti Blyth. — Nepal anul Assam to Tenas- 

 serim. 



Malacocinda abhotti olivacea (Strickland). — Malay Peninsula. 



Malacocinda abhotti huttilcoferi Finsch. — Borneo. 



Malacocinda abhotti haweana Oberholser.^ — Bawean Island, Java 

 Sea. 



Malacocinda abhotti sirensis Oberholser. — -Pulo Mata Siri, Java 

 Sea, 



Family TURDIDAE. 



KITTACINCLA MELANUBA NIGRICAUDA Vorderman. 



Cittocincla nigricauda Vorderman, Natuurk. Tijdsch. Necleri. -Indie, vol. 52, 

 1893, p. 197 (Kangean Island, Java Sea). 



A single immature male of this species, taken on November 26, 

 1908, is referred to this form from the Kangean Islands. We have 

 no specimens from these islands, however, and the present bird may 

 well not be identical; but from the published description of Kittacinda 

 nigricauda it is not with certainty distinguishable. It is just molting 

 from the juvenal plumage into that of the adult, and with wings, 

 upper sm'face, throat, and breast stiU showing evidences of imma- 

 turity. From specimens of Kittacinda melanura opisthocJiroa Ober- 

 holser,^ from Lasia Island, off the western coast of Sumatra, this 

 Pulo Mata Siri bird differs in much larger size and much paler pos- 

 terior lower parts. 



The measurements of this specimen (No. 181704, U.S.N.M.) are 

 as follows: Total length (in flesh *), 228 mm.; wing, 99 ^; tail, 106^; 

 exposed culmen, 18; tarsus, 27; middle toe without claw, 19. 



If this bird is really identical with Kittacinda nigricauda Vorder- 

 man, the latter is certainly but a subspecies of Kittacinda melanura. 



1 Malacocinda Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. 14, pt. 2, No. 164, for August, 1864, p. 600 (type, by 

 monotypy, Malacocirn:la abbotti Blyth). 

 3 Proc. U. S. xMat. Mas., vol. 52. February 8, 1917, p. 194 (Baweau Island, Java Sea). 

 •Sraithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 7, October 26, 1912, p. 13 (Pulo Lasia). 



* Measured by the collector. 



* Not fully grown. 



