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PHILENTOxMA PYRRHOPTERA (Temm.). 



Philentoma saravacense Bartlett, Sarawak Note-book, pt. 

 IX (1896), p. 80. 



Tliis name was given by Barllett to a blue flycatcher 

 from the neighbourhood of Kuching. I have seen the type, 

 a male, which belongs to the Sarawak Museum. It is of 

 exactly the same size as Philentoma pyrrhoptera 

 [Muscicapa pyrrhoptera Temm., PI. Col. 1823, No. 596, fig. 

 2 (error ! read 1) Borneo and Sumatra i, but is of the same 

 blue all over as the foreparts, except on the abdomen where 

 the blue of the breast gradually changes more or less into 

 sullied white. 



Agreeing with the type are six other specimens for 

 the moment in my hands : — a male and female (?) from 

 Sarawak, Iwo males from the Malay States, and Iwo males 

 from Sumatra. One of the Malayan specimens has the 

 flanks slightly tinged with russet. 



It has been suggested that this bird is the young of 

 P. uelata, but 1 am sure (his is not so. It belongs to P. 

 pyrrhoptera, of which, it seems to be an aberration — though 

 as shown a comparatively common one- and is not a dis- 

 tinct species. The colour of the young male P. pyrrhoptera 

 is apparantly that of the adult female but rather paler on 

 the throat. 



Philentoma intermedius Hume, Stray Feathers, IX, 1880, 

 p. 113. 



This name was given to a female from Johore — an 

 aberration like that named saravacense by Bartlett. As 

 usual Hinne's description is very full. 



Philentoma maxwelli Bartlett Journ. Straits Branch Royal 

 Asiatic Soc. No. 28, 1895, p. 96. 



This name was given also to a Sarawak bird which 

 is an ordinary male P. pyrrhoptera except for an irregular 

 chestnut patch on one side of the blue breast — ^an abnor- 

 mality 1 find in a Malayan example as well. I am indebted 

 to the authorities of the Sarawak Musemn for lendmg me 

 the Bornean types of the synonyms. Malaysian birds are 

 not separable into subspecies. 



CRYPTOLOPHA TRIVIRGATA. 



Since we commented on Sumatran examples of 

 Cryptolopha trivirgata (Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. 

 VIII, pt. 2, 1918, p. 167), the F.M.S. Museums have obtained 

 a large series of this bird from .lava and now comparing 

 with them an equally large Sumatran series, I can detect no 

 differences : the birds of the Siuida Islands are larger than 

 other Malaysian birds and are of tlie typical form C. t. 

 trivirgata (Strickl., type locality, Java)\ 



'See, however, Nov. Zool. XXVII, 1920, p. 462 where Hartert 

 States there is no difFerence in wing length. But tlie series on 

 which my remarks are based is much larger than any other 

 assembled. 



