192 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker on [Ibis, 



As regards size, the two races seem much the same. The 

 wing of the type of enjthr'opygius is 160 mm., of tlie Siamese 

 birds from 152 to 165 mm., whilst Mr. Kk)ss's birds run 

 from 140 to 161 mm. measured on the curve. 



Of the 48 skins of nigrigenis in the British Museum the 

 extremes in lenj^th of wing are 147 aiul 165 mm. 



lYNGIPICUS CANICAPILLTJS. 



I have not yet had time to work out all the subspecies 

 of the genus Ii/ngipicus, but tliere appear to be two species 

 admitted in the British Museum Catalogue which cannot be 

 maintained, y'lz., pumilus and auranteiventris. 



Blanford has already pointed out (Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 iii. p. 46) that pumilus cannot possibly be separated from 

 canicapillus. Of the series of so-called pumilus in the British 

 Museum the wings vary from 70 to 81 mm., and those of 

 canicapillus from 74 to 87 mm., but both so-called sub- 

 species occur in the same area, and it would really seem as if 

 Hargitt had picked out the smallest birds with wholly black 

 rectrices and given them the same name, and then picked 

 out some larger ones with spotted rectrices and called them 

 canicapillus (according to Blytli). The remaining birds seem 

 to have been almost indiscriminately assigned to either. 



Amongst the so-called pumilus many have more or less 

 white on the tail, and again among Hargitt's canicapillus 

 there is a bird with a wing of 86 mm. with the central 

 rectrices quite black. 



Exactly parallel to the above two forms are those of 

 aureiventris and Hargitt's ^ica/?/5. In the Museum there is 

 a specimen of each shot on the same date at the same place, 

 and it is probable that the latter is nothing but an extra 

 worn specimen of the former. 



CHKYSOPHLEGMA FLAVINUCHA LYLEI. 

 Chrysophlegma flavinucha lylei, Kloss, Ibis, 1918, p. 110. 

 This race, which Kloss describes from a single specimen, 

 appears to nie to be only C. /. pierrei. His bird was obtained 



