206 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. X, 



T. L. 152, 160 ; Tail, 67, 71 ; Wing, 71, 76 ; Tarsus ; 

 19.5, 21 ; B.i'.g. 17.5, 19 mm. 



Setaria rufifrons was described by Cabanis as from 

 Sumatra or Java. Biittlkofer has deliberately attached 

 lepidocephala. Gray, to Javanese birds and they will have 

 to bear that name if different from Sumatran examples : 

 but Sharpe, after inspecting specimens in Lej'den stated 

 that the differences lie noted in the " Catalogue " did not 

 exist. 



As several Javanese birds have wings of 79 to 81 mm. 

 Finsch's statement that the wing of the type of rufifrons 

 measures 80 mm. (3 inches of Cabanis) is confirmed. 



This is one of the species which, though occurring in 

 Indo-China and the Sunda Islands, is not found in the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



{Horizillas Oberholser, replaces Malacopteron Eyto;i 

 and Setaria Blyth : vide, Smithsonian Miscellaneous 

 Collections, 48, 1905, p. 64). 



9. Prionochilus maculatus septentrionalis subsp. nov. 



Male. Differs from the form inhabiting the southern 

 part of the Malay Peninsula (20 specimens from the Malay 

 States compared) in having the ear-coverts much greyer, 

 hardly if at all waslied with green ; the white throat stripe 

 narrower and the yello\N of the underparts considerably 

 brighter, becoming almost orange chrome on the middlit' 

 of the breast. 



Female. Differs in a similar manner from the female 

 of the southern race. 



Iris red or reddish ; maxilla black, mandible slate, the 

 tip sometimes black ; feet dark slate or slaty black. 



Ten specimens examined from the Northern Malav 

 Peninsula (Lat. 10° 11° N.) . 



Types. $ ad. Tasan, Clmmporn, 13th March, 1919. 

 H. C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss, No. 4548, $ ad. Tapli, 

 Pakchan Estuary, Renong, 3rd March, 1919. H. C. Robinson 

 and C. Boden Kloss, No. ^4393. 



