418 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



with bufty white, and the tail-feathers barred with rufous 

 buff on tlieir inner webs and tipped with the same colour. 

 The species seems very rare in Malaya and Indo-China. In 

 fifteen years we have never seen a specimen from the Malay 

 Peninsula, though Blyth records it from Malacca, but we 

 have examined a bird obtained by Mr. Williamson near 

 Bangkok. The species in a broad sense has a very wide 

 range eastwards to New Britain. Meyer and Wiglesworth 

 have separated the Indian Peninsula bird as H. s. indicus, 

 and Meyer that from south-east New Guinea as H. s. 

 papuauus. The typical form was described from Java, and 

 the present birds almost certainly belong to it. 



28. Syrnimn newarensis (llodgs.). 



Syrnium newarensis subsp. (an caligatus?) Hartert, Nov. 

 Zool. xvii. 1910, p. .'.'OS. 



1 ? ad. Dalat, 5000 ft., S. Annam. 2 May, 193 8. 



"Iris dark brown; maxilla dull greenish white, cere 

 tinged with blue ; mandible dull greenish white washed 

 with bluish ; feet pale bluish blotched with yellowish 

 grey.'' 



T. L. 530 ; W. 375 mm. 



This specimen has the top of the head, mantle, and inner 

 scapulars and facial rutf deej) sooty brown, between '^ clove ^' 

 and "bone-brown" of Ridgway, with no tinge of ochra- 

 ceous ; under parts with bars of l)rown and buffy white, the 

 former rather narrower. 



Quite distinct in size and colour from S. n. maingayi 

 Hume, of the Malay Peninsuhi, but apparently agreeing 

 with birds described from Hainan (Hartert, loc. cit. supra)^ 

 except that the lower parts are more In-oadly barred. 



29. Glaucidium cuculoides cuculoides. 



Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet.-Akad. liandl. Ivi. no. 2, 

 1916, p. 122 ; Kloss, Ibis, 1918, p. 89. 



Athene cucidoides Oustalet, p. 241. 



2(?, 2 $ . Trang Bom, Cochin China. 1-5 June, 1918. 



4(5^,1$. Daban, 650 ft., S. Annam. 17-18 March, 

 1918. 



