XXVI. FOUR NEV\ BIRDS FROM JAVA. 

 By II. C. Robinson* (M./.S. 



DENDROBIASTES HYPERYTHRA VULCANI, subsp. nov. 



Adult male: — Very close to I), r. malayana, Ogilvie 

 Grant 1 , from the mountains of the Malay Peninsula and 

 from Sumatra but differing in having the throat and breast 

 somewhat paler, more yellowish orange, less rufescent, the 



fulvous wash on the Hanks distinctly lighter and the middle 

 of the abdomen whiter. " Iris dark, bill black, feet slaty 

 purplish." 



Adult female :— The uppei surface more olivaceous than in 

 the corresponding sex of D. h. malayana, the throat and 

 middle of the abdomen whiter and the pectoral band and the 

 flanks light yellowish fulvous brown, not rufescent brown. 

 ■" Iris dark, bill black, feet light pinkish grey." 



Dimensions, (taken in the flesh). Male: Total length. 1 1 j : 

 wing, 59; tail, 46; tarsus, 18; bill from gape, 15 mm. 



Female: — Total length, 113; wing, 59; tail. 47; tarsus, 

 i.n : bill from gape, 14 mm. 



Types: — Collected at Tjibodas, slopes of the Gedeh 

 Volcano, 4-6,000 feet, Weste in Java, on 14 th and 15 th. February, 

 1916. 4 No. 2413. ;■ No. 2365. 



Specimens examined : — Twenty-one, from the slopes ol tin 

 Gedeh, at altitudes from 4,000 to 8,500 feet. 



Six males from the Idjen Volcano, near Banjoewangi, 

 Eastern Java, are perhaps even paler and brighter beneath, 

 while a single female, which we have to associate with the males, 

 differs very markedly in having almost the whole of the under 

 surface pale buffy yellow, the throat and chil 

 concolorous with the breast. In the absence of furthei fi mali 

 specimens and of examples from Bali I prefer not to descrilx it. 



POMATORHINUS MONTANUS OTTOLANDERI, subsp. nov. 



Adult: — Differing from the typical P. m. montamu of the 

 mountains of Central and Western Java in having tin white 

 superciliary streak not continued past the eye to the base of 

 the bill as is invariably the case in the western rare. General 

 colour of back, mantle and flanks rather more chestnut and 

 less ochraceous rufous than in the western form, though this 

 character is only noticeable when large series of each race are 

 compared. 



■ Mmcieapula malayana, Ogilvie Grant, Bull Brit. Orn Club. XI' 

 (■906). 



