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



Iris crimson; eyelids black; maxilla black; mandible 

 greenish-yellow, tip black ; feet dark olive. 



T. L. 265 ; T. 90 ; W. 133 ; Ta. 21 ; B. f. g. 31 ; exposed 

 culmen 24. 



I am afraid that some confusion exists in regard to the 

 •way the Indo-Chinese representative of B. chlorolophus has 

 been treated. Gyldenstolpe has recorded as typical, birds 

 from northern Siam, and has also described from the same 

 locality, under the name of B. chlorolophoides, a single male 

 which, it is stated, " differs by the intensity of the red colour 

 of the crown and nape^' and other relative features. But 

 B. chlorolophus does not possess a red crown as, by inference 

 from the above quotation, Gyldenstolpe believes ; and it seems 

 very possible that the specimens he regards as chlorolophus 

 are only somewhat less extreme examples, not specifically 

 different from the individual he has named chlorolophoides. 

 Like other races of chlorolophus {longipemds IJartert, from 

 Hainan ; wrayi Grant, from the Malay Peninsula ; chloro- 

 gaster Jerdon, from Ceylon and S. India), it differs chiefly 

 in having a considerably greater amount of red on the crown 

 and occiput. Hartert (Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 222) was not 

 certain that the five males on which he founded his sub- 

 species were really adult — two had no red malar stripe, and 

 in the other three it was indicated by some red spots only, 

 the crown was " red with some large green patches ; it is 

 impossible to say if the crown would ever become quite red." 

 B. chlorolojjhoides, of the same size, seems only doubtfully 

 distinct in having the occiput red, the basal part of the 

 crown-feathers greenish-grey broadly tipped with red ; and 

 a broad malar stripe red faintly barred with dusky olive, the 

 feathers having grey bases. 



My specimen differs from a female from Manipur only in 

 having the nuchal crest paler yellow, the outer webs of the 

 primaries unspotted and the primaries and secondaries much 

 more extensively coloured with deeper red, the rectrices 

 more edged with golden olivcj while the throat and breast 

 are greener olive. 



