620 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds [ILis, 



225. Cinnyris asiatica intermedia (Hume). 

 Arachnecthra intermedia Huine, Ibis, 1870, p. 436. 

 Cinnyi'is edeui Anderson, Anat. & Zool. Res. 1878, 



p. 661, pi. xlix. ; Oiistalet, p. 9. 



1 S • Tour Cham, Phanrang, S. Annam. 20 May, 1918. 



2 cf . Daban, 650 ft., S. Annam. 18-25 Marcb, 1918. 

 "Iris Hark, bill and feet black." 



T. L. 105, 113, 115; W. 56, 57, 57; bill from gape 18-5, 

 18-5, 19 mm. 



These birds appear to belong to the eastern form of this 

 widely spread species, differing from the typical race in the 

 purplish, not greenish, metallic tint of the upper surface and 

 in a slightly longer bill. They are, however, not nearly so 

 strongly violaceous above as the figure of C. edeni (loc. cit.), 

 which is possil)ly somewhat exaggerated. 



226. .ffithopyga siparaja tonkinensis Hartert. 

 ^tliopyga siparaja (Rattles) ; Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Zool. 



France, xv. 1890, p. 158. 



yEthopyga seherice subsp., Kuroda, Annot. Zool. Japon. ix. 

 1917, p. 249. 



Mthopyya seheria tonkinensis Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. 

 Club, xxxviii. 1917, p. 7. 



jEthopyga seherice (partim) Oustalet, p. 8. 



1 S ■ Daban, 650 ft., S. Annam. 26 March, 1918. 



"Iris dark; maxilla dark brown, mandible brownish 

 yellow : feet brownish black." 



T. L. 137 ; W. 54 mm. 



This Form differs from ^. s. cava Hume, in having the 

 nape brown, the red of the breast decidedly darker, the 

 bases of the feathers blackish grey, not whitish yellow. 

 From descriptions it would appear to couie exceedingly close 

 to JE. s. owstoni Rothschild, Bull. Brit. Oru. Club, xxv. 

 1907, p. 32, from Nanchan Id., Kuangtung Peninsula, 

 southern China. 



All the forms as noted by Hartert {he. cit.), are obviously 

 subspecies of yEtliopyga siparaja (Raffles), typical locality, 

 West Sumatra. 



