438 Messrs. Robinson mid Kloss on Birds [Ibis. 



71. Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus guttacristatiis (Tick.). 



Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus Oustalet, p. 266. 



Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus guttacristatus Kloss, This, 

 1918, p. 111. 



Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus indomalayicus Hesse, Ornith. 

 Monatsb. 1911, p. 182 ; Robinson, .Tourn. Fed. Malay States 

 Mus. vii. 1917, p. 161. 



1 ? ad. Trang Horn, Cochin China. 3 June, 1918. 



l(j^,2$ad. Daban, 650 ft., S. Annam. 16-18 March, 

 1918. 



1 c?. Dran, 3000 ft., S. Annam. 17 May, 1918. 



1 c? , 1 *? subad. Dalat, 5000 ft, S. Annam. 7 April, 

 1918. 



" Iris pinkish yellow, orbital skin black ; bill brownish 

 black; feet dirty olive. Immature female, iris greyish yellow 

 and the feet plumbeous olive. "^ 



Males. T. L. 300, 303, 315 ; W. 152, 151, 164 mm. 



Females. T. L. 290, 315, 305, 313; W. 158, 155, 151, 

 159 mm. 



After examination o£ the large series in the Federated 

 Malay States Museums and in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 with additional material from Siam we are forced to the 

 conclusion that, excluding the races in southern India and 

 the extreme south of the Malay Peninsula, which are quite 

 distinct, no more than two HimalaA^an and Indian and Indo- 

 Chinese races can be maintained, namely: — a large Himalayan 

 race, C. g. sultaneus Hodgs., ranging from Nepal through 

 Assam and the Dafia Hills to Bhamo (wing about 168-190 

 mm.) and the typical C.g. guttacristatus, originally described 

 from Chota Nagpur, which extends from the Konkan in 

 western India across central India and Burma to Cochin 

 China and also south through Tenasserim to the Langkawi 

 Is., but no farther (wing about 168-154 mm.). C g. indo- 

 malayicus Hesse, of which Ave have examined a series of 

 actual topotypes, is within the range of these dimensions and 

 should therefore be suppressed. 



