1919-] Recaiitly pKhl'ished ()nnthol()(/ic(il Works. 551 



notes. A number of the more striking new forms discovered 

 were desei'ii)e(l in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the 

 Royal Asiutic Society in 191G, but a certain number of 

 additional forms from Sumatra and elsewhere are here 

 noticed for the first time, viz. : — Turdinulus epilepidota 

 diliitns, Notodela diana suinatrana, Pariis major mahnjorum, 

 Zosterops diffici/is, all from Sumatra ; and Pnoepyga pusilla 

 harterti., Tephrodornis pelvica annecteus, Blrringa remifer 

 attenuata^ from the Malay Peninsula. 



Four coloured plates by Gronvold illustrate the moi'e 

 interesting forms obtained, including the female of the 

 handsome Pheasant, Acnmus inornatns Salvad., which had 

 not previously been obtained or described; Gecinns dedeini 

 van Oort, only known up till now from the type-specimen 

 obtained by Baron van Dedem in tlie Battak mountains of 

 north-eastern Sumatra ; ('ochon beccari'i, only known i'roni 

 the types obtained by Beccari on Mt. Singgalang thirty-five 

 years ago ; the handsome Ground-Thrush, Pitta schneideri 

 Hartert, the female of which was previously unknown; 

 Dicoiiini beccari'i, Crypt nlopha samatrensis, and ('. nmeUeri, 

 first obtained and described by the authors themselves in 

 1910; and Cettia sumatruna, also ()])tained by the authors 

 of this paper, l)ut first described by Mr. Ogilvie-Grant. 



Following the list of sjjccies is a table showing the 

 distribution and altitude of the Ijirds collected according 

 to station, a list of nests and eggs, and finally a carefully 

 compiled and valuable list of all the birds certainly known 

 to occur in Sumatra. These numi)er 52G as compared with 

 iioi'neo's 535 and the Malay Peninsula's 630. 



Sirarl/i on new forms of Fox-Sparroiv. 



[Three new subspecies of Passerel/a iliaca. Jiy H. S. Swartli. Proc. 

 P.inl. Soc. Wiishington, vol. ;U, 1918, ])p. 161-164.] 



This paper contains the preliminary description of three 

 new subspecies — Passerella iliaca inariposa, P. i. fulva, and 

 P. i. canescens — from different localities in California, and 

 is to be followed by a thorough revision oi" the whole 

 grrtnp. 



