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by me are quite differeut from true S. r. poliog aster, and 

 their bright, but pale, fulvous breasts alone suffice to distin- 

 guish them at a glance from that bird. S. r. poliogaster, 

 of. which there is a very big series of skins in the British 

 Museum, even when very old and faded, is still much 

 darker and more rufous above than is ray new subspecies. 



T Pomatorhinus olivaceus siamensis. 

 Stuart Baker, loc. cit. p. 10. 

 I have compared Mr. Herbert's specimens of this sub- 

 species with the types of Herbert's fastidiosus, and they 

 certainly do not seem to be the same. P. o. siamensis is a 

 much redder bird than P. o.fastidiosus, with more and richer 

 red on the sides of tiie neck and flanks. With more material 

 the two forms may be found to run into one another, and, 

 if so, my name must be suppressed and become a synonym 

 offastidioswi. For the present tliey must both be retained. 



"/■ Cyanoderma erythropterum sordida. 

 Stuart Baker, loc. cit. p. 10. 



I find that I luust also maintain this subspecies, and I 

 cannot agree that all birds, both from the Peninsula and 

 islands, are the same. It appears to me that northern birds 

 are distinctly darker than southern, though specimens from 

 Java'and Sumatra seem to be one and the same. The skins 

 in the British Museum do not appear to have faded, and 

 doubtless they are not affected so much by age as they are 

 in a tropical climate. Some of the oldest skins in the huge 

 series in the British Museum are the darkest of all. 



The type-locality for C. erythropterum erythropterum is 

 Singapore. 



^Setaria rufifrons. 



Setaria lepidocephala (Gray) ; Kloss, Ibis, 1918, p. 203. 



Cabanis's description of rufifrons is as follows : — " Upper 

 side olive-brown, tail rusty red, underside whitish, the 

 scale-like feathers of the forehead and anterior crown 

 liglit ferruginous and with paler shaft-stripes and blackish 

 tips. Length 6^"; bill |" ; wing 3" : tail 2^J'." 



