i gi 7- 1 H. C. RoBrNSON: Birds from Pulau Langkawi. 179 



92. Herpornis zantholeuca xantholeuca (Hodgs.i. 

 Herpornis zantholeuca, Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 636; 



Robinson ami Kloss, p. 63 : Rbbiiison, ailtea, vol. v, p. 107 (1915) ; 

 Gyldenstolf>c, p. 62. 



<[-/). 2?. Burau, NW. Langkawi, 14th December, 

 1916. No. 3638. 

 " Iris reddish, bill pale horn, darker on culmen, 

 yellowish at base, feet pale pinkish flesh." 



Fairly common at this one locality on Langkawi in open 

 ground near the sea. Widely distributed throughout the 

 Peninsula and very constant in characters, rather more 

 abundant in the north. 



93. Geocichla citrina citrina (Lath. 1. 



Geocichla citrina. Hume. Stray. Featk. vi, p. 250 

 (1878) Seebohm. Cat. Birds, Brit. Mas. v, p. 176 11S81); Robinson 

 and Kloss, p. 63 : (Jyldeustolpe, p. 46. • 



.1. <?. Pulau Dayang Bunting, Langkawi, 9th 

 December 1916. [No. 3617.] 



b. ?. Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S.W. Siam. 12th 

 January 1917. [No. 3895.] 



'".Male. Iris dark, bill dark greenish black, feet 

 pinkish flesh tinged with yellow. Female. Iris hazel, bill 

 upper mandible dark horn, lower bluish horn, feet yellowish 

 pink horn." 



Besides the above series we have twelve specimens of 

 both sexes shot in various localities in Trang and on Terutau 

 and Langkawi from November to March and a fine adult male 

 from Menuang Casing, 3-4,000', Ulu Langat, Selangor, Feb- 

 ruary 7th 191 2. 



There has been much discussion and difference of opinion 

 on the point as to whether Geocichla innotata, Blyth. Journ. 

 Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xv, p. 370 1846), described vaguely as from 

 ''Malacca'* has any claims to even subspecific rank. 



The "species" is supposed to differ in richer colour above 

 and in the total absence of white markings On the wing coverts. 

 As regards the tint then- is very large variation, both sexual 

 and individual, in specimens with markings on the wings (G. 

 citrina) and this character can therefore be disregarded. The 

 white tips to the wing coverts are very variable and specimens 

 lacking or nearl\ lacking them occur together with those in 

 which they are highly developed. It may further be noted 

 that with the exception of the above-mentioned specimen from 

 the mountain's of Selangor, which has strongly marked white 

 patches on the wings, no exactly localised specimens of an\ 

 Geocichla of this type has ever been obtained in the Malay 

 Peninsula south of Penang. 



