1921] RoDEN Kloss : Notes on Birds. 221 



2. From East Java (Bali Strait to Idjen Massif) ; 67, 

 08, 68, 74 mm. M. s. minor 



3. From Mid Java (Karongbolang on the S. Coast, 40 

 miles E. of Tjilitjap) ; 72, 68, 76 mm. These are truly 

 typical of neither form : the first might be placed with 

 .s'. sepiaria, the others with .v. minor. 



Meyer gives wings of 61-64 mm. for minor ; 70-72 

 mm. for sepiaria : but there is no real difference in size as 

 Butlikofer points out. See also Finsch (Notes Leyd. Mus. 

 XXII, p. 220) who finds the wings to vary indiscriminately 

 from 65 to 74 mm. as I do. 



Except on the heads the colour differences given by 

 Meyer are not visible in the freshly collected series. 



CHIBIA HOTTENTOTTA. 



1 S ad., 1 S imm., 2 9 imm., 1 $ juv. Badjoelmati, 30 

 miles north of Banjoewangi, F^ast Java, 31st January — 7th 

 February, 1920. 



Total length ($ S, 9 9) 308, 300, 285, 288. Tail, 144, 

 137, 128, 125.^ Wing, 155, 153, 150, 143. Tarsus, 25, 25.5, 

 25, 24. Bill from gape, 38, 38, 37, 35 ; from nostril, 25, 23, 

 22.5, 22 nmi. 



" Iris, adult male yellowish white, immature birds dark. 

 Bill black, tip and gape whitish in immature birds. Feet 

 black." 



The immature specimens lack the spangles on the head 

 and breast and have no frontal hairs, shoulder plumes or 

 curled tail feathers. 



The colour and plumage characters of this bird are 

 exactly those of C. hottcniolta (which occurs on the 

 (^.ontinent as far south as South Tenasserim and Cochin- 

 CJiina only ; for this species is another instance of that 

 interesting anomaly in distribution in which a number of 

 species common in Indo-C.hina are absent in the Malay 

 Peninsula, but appear again in Java and sometimes in 

 Borneo and Sumatra) and apparently of lencops, Wallace, 

 of Celebes and pectoral i.s Wallace, of* the Xulla Islands. In 

 the shape of the bill it agrees with the two last, the bill 

 being higher, less tapering and more keeled than in con- 

 tinental birds : it is in fact the bill of the so-called 

 Dicruropsis smnatniniis (Wardl . Rams.) somewhat 

 elongated ; and larger of coui'se, to agree with the size of 

 the bird. Except for larger size and perhaps a propor- 

 tionately slightly lieavier bill, it scarcelv differs from 

 l)(>rneen.sis Sharpe. 



The iris is yellowish while, lluis closelv agreeing with 

 lencops. 



I cannot definitely determine the form for lack of 

 material and literature : from the Thousand Islands at the 

 N.W. end of Java termeuleni has been described l)y Finsch 

 and from Kangean Id., at the N.E. end, jentinki, bv 

 Vorderman. 



