518 Letters, Extracts, and Notes. [Ibis, 



XXVII. — Letters, Extracts, and Notes. 



Siamese Sirds. 



Sir, — It has been pointed out to me by you that I have 

 omitted to cite types for a number of the races proposed 

 in my recent paper [antea, pp. 76-114, 180-234). For 

 various reasons I have deliberately refrained from doing 

 so in the case of those specimens which are not in my 

 own collection, but in connection with them have given 

 a typical locality (the only or first place mentioned) 

 which I hope will identify the geographical forms with 

 sufficient preciseness. I hope later to publish data of 

 heautotypes if meanwhile plesiotypes have not been selected 

 by other ornithologists. 



My bird, the type of Chloropsis aurifroas inornatus, was, 

 however, not specially mentioned ; it is the first specimen 

 recorded, the adult male with measurements, and was 

 collected on 14 October, 1916. 



The type of Gecinus viridis robinsoni is an adult female 

 from Ginting Bidai, Selangor-Pahang Boundary, Malay 

 States, 2000 ft. Collected by myself on 5 April, 1917, 

 and now in the collection of the Federated Malay States 

 Museums. 



I wish to correct an error in my remarks under Dissemwus 

 paradiseus malayensis (p. 229). I was at fault in stating 

 that this name of Blyth's was first published by Jerdon as 

 Edolius malayensis ; it was first published by Blyth himself 

 [Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxviii. p. 272 (1859)] in con- 

 nection with Andamanese and Malayan birds. 



The former were afterwards separated by Beavan as 

 Edolius affinis (Ibis, 1867, p. 323), but the name is ante- 

 dated by Edolius affinis Blyth [Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 xi. p. 174 (1842)] for a form of Dicrurus of the Malay 

 Peninsula, and Richmond has substituted for it Dissemurus 

 malabaricus otiosus [Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxv. p. 290 

 (1902)]. 



