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



1919 ; and adult female from Kuchiiig, Sarawak, obtained 

 on 24th May, 1892 (ex Sarawak Museum) . 



6. Chalcoparia singalensis phoenicotis (Temminck). 



S'eclariniu phoeiticotis Teniiiiiiick, PI. Col. 1824, No. 108, flg. I (cf) ; 

 No. 388 flg. 2 (?) (Java). 



Males as in C. s. singalensis but rufous of the foreneck 

 and upper breast deeper : abdomens less bright than in 

 C. s.. borneana. 



Females with the rufous of the foreneck much deepei* 

 than in the females of any other race (as deep as in the 

 males) ; not extending on to the upper breast and ending 

 abruptly as in males of (^. s. koratensis ; but still more 

 restricted. Lower breast and abdomen bright as in 

 koratensis and interposita. 



Specimens examined from Rast. Mid and West Java 

 (7^,3$). 



Chalcoparia singalensis panopsis Oberholser (Smiths, 

 Misc. Coll. 60, 1912, p. 21) of Nias Id., West Sumatra, is 

 described as having the females with the posterior lower 

 parts more brightly yellowish than in C. s. singalensis. 

 It must, tlierefore, be quite distinct from the adjacent race 

 C. s. suniatrana. 



Of the males C. s. koratensis, of the females C. s. 

 phoenicotis is the most distinct. 



When I stated. Ibis 1918, p. 218, that birds from the 

 Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java were alike my material 

 was inadequate, consisting from the latter places of one 

 Sumatran male only and four old mounted males of faded 

 colours from Java. C. s. phoenicotis is a very distinct 

 form on account of the characters of the female : C. s. 

 sumatrana less so ; but sutficiently distinguished to need 

 separation. 



A NEW RACE OF SHAMA FROM JAVA, 



Kittacincla malabarica javana subsp. nov. 



Sexes alike in colour and paler below than the males of 

 K. m. tricolor (Vieillot). Typical locality Bantam, W, Java: 

 Robinson and Kloss det,^) and with white, not rusty thighs r 

 like the males of K. m. omissa Hartert (Nov. Zool. IX, 1902, 

 p. 572. Lawang, E. Java) but without the indistinct white 

 border to the black breast. 



Types. Adult male (No. 6277) and female (6112) 

 collected by C, Boden Kloss, 23rd and 18th February 1920, 



' Extract from M.S. " We consider that Vieillot'.s citation of the 

 locahty of his Tiirdm tricolor (Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. XXX, 1818, 

 p. 291) ""les isles de la nier du sud " is at least as precise as 

 llartert's subsequent fixation as " India " (Nov. Zool. IX, 1902, 

 p. 571). Further the description by Scopoli in 1786 (Del Flor. 

 Faun. Insubr., II, p. 97) of the Malabar bird as Miiscicapu 

 malabarica should prevent " India " being selected for a typical 

 locality. We have, therefore, further fixed the typical locality 

 of Tardus tricolor as Western Java." H. C, Robinson and C. Boden 

 Kloss. 



