98 Mr. C. Boden Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



dicruroides) , wliicli may represent a winter visitor from the 

 north. The presence of such birds in the Peninsula, where, 

 again, they may be high-level residents, may have unduly 

 raised the range for brachyurus. The birds of southern 

 Burma and Siani are intermediate ; but as there does not 

 seem any necessity for recognizing them as a race, I would 

 place them under dicruroides, to which they seem to come . 

 nearest. 



-f 42. Cacomantis merulinus querulus Hume. 



Stresemann, Nov. Zool. xix. 1912, p. 332. 



1 ? . Koh Lak. 



Iris red-brown ; bill black, base of mandible brown ; feet 

 yellow washed with olive-brown. 



T.L. 220; W. 108 ; B. f. g. 21. 



As the result of his investigations of the Cuckoos of this 

 species, Stresemann considered that the present dark-bellied 

 form was Indo-Chinese, while the home of the true merulinus 

 was the Malayan and Philippine areas. I find, however, 

 that both races occur in the Malay Peninsula, whence we 

 have adult specimens of C. m. querulus taken in July, 

 August, September, and December, with wings 103, 103, 

 106, 107 mm. 



Stresemann, who regards the merulinus of Java as not 

 distinguishable from the typical bird of the Philippines, 

 considers that the merulinus of the Malay Peninsula is 

 intermediate between C. m. merulinus and C. m. querulus. 

 It is indeed intermediate in colour between the yellow- 

 bellied Javan and Bornean birds and the rufous-bellied 

 northern querulus, but it is quite constant ; therefore I see 

 no reason why the name of threnodes, applied to it by 

 Cabanis and Heine, should not stand. The wing-lengths of 

 adult Peninsular birds, in a series I have examined, are : — 

 95, 97, 97, 98, 98, 99, 100, 104 mm. 



Cacomantis sepulchrulis (S. Miill.) also occurs in the 

 Malay Peninsula, though unrecognized there by Strese- 

 mann {t. c. s. pp. 332, 334). I find that the wings of adult 

 exami)les measure 107, 108, 113, 114 mm., and I am inclined 

 to attribute to this species or race all banded birds obtained 



