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Abdomen and undcrlail-covcrts in males a tritle paler 

 than in cither f. fimhriata or culminata ; but Jess white 

 than in neglecla. 



I'emales inseparable from those of culminata 



I'he smallest form : wings 90-95 mm. (9 ,5 3 9 from 

 Sarawak). 



Confined to Borneo, 



4. Lalage fimbriata neglecta (Hume) 



Volnocit'oru m-glccia IIuiiic, Stray Feathers, V, 1877, p. 203. Extreme 

 south of Tenasserim. 



Males paler grey throughout than those of the above 

 three races ; heads and mantles not becoming blackish • 

 abdomens and imdertail-coverts white or whitish. 



Females inseparable from all but the Javan race. 



Wings 94-106 mm. (IO5 8$). 



From Southern Tenasserim down to about Lat, 6° N. 

 in the Malay Peninsula.' 



Males from between Lat. 6° and 3° N. in the Peninsula 

 are intermediate between culminata and neglecta, but on 

 the wlioie are nearest the latter : in tlie abdomen and lower 

 tail-coverts they resemble schierhrandi, but do not appear 

 to develop the dark head and back of the Bornean bird. 

 Wings 94-105 (5 6 5 ) . 



MALACOCINCLA SEPIARIA. 



In the Trans. Linn. Soc. (XIII, 1822, p. 158) Horsfield 

 described Braclujpteryx sepiaria from Java and in the 

 Zeitschrift fin- de (iesammte Ornitbologie (I, 1884, p. 21) 

 Meyer described Turdinus sepiarius var. minor from the 

 same island. In Notes from the Leyden Museum (XVII, 

 1895, p. 82) Buttikofer considered that the latter autlior 

 could rightly do tliis as Horsfield's sepiaria was the paler- 

 headed bird. This is actually the case. 



I recently obtained in .lava, birds which Mr. E. C. Stuart 

 Baker has kindly compared for me with Horsfield's types 

 in the British Museum. The latter represent tlie paler- 

 headed form, so I am now able to definitely state that 

 Malacocincla sepiaria sepiaria (Horsf.) is the Western and 

 Malacocincla sepiaria minor (Meyer) the Eastern .Javanese 

 form. 



Though the individuals of Meyer's type series have 

 wings much smaller than my specimens, or an}^ others on 

 record from .lava, it is accepted that they do represent a 

 form of sepiaria. 



Wing measurements of my specimens. 



1 . From West Java (W ynkoops Bay and Pandeglang 

 district) ; 66, 67, 67, 68, 69, 71, 73-5 mm. M. s. sepiaria 



' I liave seen an undoubted example of L. f. 'culniinatn from 

 l*atani, however, .showing tliat this race and neqlecta may 

 (occasionally) inosculate as well as intergrade. 



