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fX. NINE NEW ORIENTAL BIRDS. 



By H. C. Hoijinson and C. Bodkn Kloss. 



1. Treron bisincta praetermissa subsp. nov. 



Larger than T. h. bisincta (Jerdon) from Madras 

 (wing 144) : ditlers from T. h. donwilii (Swinh.) from 

 Hainan in having the grey nuchal patch in the female clear 

 and more extensive whereas, fide Hartert, it is indistinct and 

 small in the island bird (Nov. Zool. XVII, 1910, p. 193). 



Hartert has inadvertently described the Ceylon birds 

 as being smaller than Madras individuals (l.c.s.) though 

 his specimens are exactly the vsame size as typical birds, 

 and leygei is therefore synonomous with h. bisincta. 

 Svvinhoe states that domvitii is smaller than the typical 

 form (presumably the bird now descrilx^d), but this is 

 denied by Hartert. 



The range of this race is probably from Bengal and 

 Assam southward to the Malay States, and in the north, 

 eastwards to China where the wing averages 156 mm. 

 (fide Baker, India Pigeons and Doves (1913) p. 51). 



Tiipes. Adult male and female from Koh Lak, South- 

 West Siam. Collected bv H. C. Robinson and C, Boden 

 Kloss on 5th April, 1919. * Collector's Nos. 5075, 5074. 



Wings 162, 161 mm. 



Specimens examined. Thirteen from the Malay 

 Peninsula. Wings 157-163 mm. 



Birds from East and South-Kast Siam and Java 

 (apparently first met with in the island by Ivloss early in 

 1920) are smaller, the wing being always under 150 mm. 

 and these may represent another race. We expect to settle 

 I he point shortly. 



2. Macropygia emiliana borneensis, subsp. nov. 



Differs from the typical race from Java (typical locality 

 here specified as the plains of Central Java) in having the 

 head and nape distinctly darker, the breast more amythsline, 

 the centre of the abdomen paler, tending towards buff. 

 Wing of type, 163 mm. 



Type. Adult nuile collected at Lingit, Saribas, 

 Sarawak, Western Borneo, bv Native Collector in March, 

 1917. 



Scries examined. Five adult males and two females, 

 ail from Sarawak, compared with a large series of Javan 

 birds liom all parts of the island. Si)eciniens from Java, 

 attain a greater length of wing than any of our Bornean 

 birds (one male, 1(S0 mm.). 



.'{. Zanclostomus javanicus pallidus subsp. nov. 



Differs from Z. j. javanicus (Horsf.) of Java as being 

 paler below : the rufous area less iulense and (he p,vo\ \yA\ov 

 and more washed with but!', 



