186 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII, 



Muscicapa panayensis, Scop. Del. Flor et Faun. Insubr. ii, p. 96, 

 (1783) from the Philippines. 



He is also correct in stating that there is a gradual transi- 

 tion from A. p. strigatus to A. s. a flints from Tipperah and 

 Cachar, which is a larger bird with a more reddish violet 

 sheen on the lower surface. It should be mentioned however 

 that Hume (Stray Feath. vi, p. 394) absolutely denies that 

 these differences exist. 



The species is evidently extremely plastic and varies 

 greatly in many of the small islands in the Malaysian area 

 principally in size, in the development of the bill and in the 

 degree and tinge of the metallic sheen on the plumage, some 

 forms being almost dull black. 



109. Anthus richardi malayensis (Eyton.) 

 Anthus malayensis, Eyton P. Z. S. 1839, p. 104. 

 Anthus richardi malayensis, Stresemann, Nov. Zool. 



xix, p. 316 (1912). 



Anthus malayensis, Robinson and Kloss. Ibis, 191 1, 

 p. 74; Robinson J., F.M.S. Mas. V, p. 151 (1914). 



Anthus rufulus (part.) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas.. 

 x> p. 574- 



Corydalla malayensis, Hume, S. F. viii, p. 65 (1879). 



a. ?.ad Pulau Langkawi. 17th February, 1909. 



b. V. ad Pulau Langkawi. 27th 5ei tember, 1915. 

 Wings 82, yj; Tarsi 29, 27. 



This is a resident bird in the Malay Peninsula, whence no 

 reliably identified examples of other races have been recorded. 

 Stresemann's method of treating rufulus as a race of richardi 

 and malayensis as its Malayan representative seems the most 

 satisfactory way of regarding this bird. 



110. DlCRURUS ANNECTANS (HodgS.) 



Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 231; Robinson and Kloss, p. 72; 

 Robinson, Ibis, 1915, p. 761. 



a. ? . imm. Telok Wau, Terutau. 20th Decem- 

 ber 1916. [No. 3680.] 

 b-c. 2 <? ad. W. side Pulau Telibun, Trang, S.W. 

 Siam. i-2nd January 1917. [Nos. 3806, 

 3810.] 

 " Iris carmine, bill and feet black.'" 



This species is certainly merely a winter visitor to the 

 Malay Peninsula and Straits of Malacca and no specimen has 

 been obtained between the months of April and September. 

 Immature birds indicated by the large amount of white in the 

 plumage are always in the great majority. Little is known 

 definitely of its distribution in the Indian Empire but it appears 

 probable that it is a breeding bird in Upper Assam and the 

 lower Himalayan foothills, west to Nepal. 



