1921] BoDEN Kloss : Notes on Birds. 223 



J'or the IjTpe locality of Chibia h. hottentotta I select 

 Siam. As in the case of Cuciihis (Dissemiiriis) paradiseus. 

 Linneus based the species on Brisson who recorded Siam 

 as the native country of the latter bird. In Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Siam, Illf 1919, p. 453, I restricted the type 

 locality to the region between Ayuthia and the head of the 

 Gulf and now select the same district for C. h. hottentotta. 

 Mr. W. J. F. Williamson has obtained specimens from near 

 Bangkok (t.c.s. p. 45) . 



As thus localised C. h. hottentotta comes nearest, of 

 recognised races, to C h. brevirostris of China (type locality 

 Chusan), but has a rather longer bill, but somewhat shorter 

 wing. 



It seems that there are (1) in the north a larger bird 

 with (a) a large bill in the Himalayas (chrishna Gould) 

 and (b) a. small bill in China {brevirostris Cabanis) : (ii) 

 in the south a rather smaller bird with a bill of intermediate 

 size {hottentotta Linn.). Whether the bird of Bombay and 

 Central India in distinct requires, as Mr. Baker says, a larger 

 series than is available to show. I fancy it is not : the few 

 measurements given are well within the range of a series 

 from Burma and Siam. 



Thus we have on the Continent at present : — 



C. h. hottentotta S. Indo-China and Peninsula India. 



C. h. chrishna Himalayas, etc. 



C. h. brevirostris I^astern China. 



MALAYSIAN CROWS. 

 CORVUS CORONOIDES. 



To a number of the " Verhandlungen der Ornithologis- 

 chen Gesellschaft in Bayern," received only recently, Dr. 

 Erwin Stresemann contributes a long and interesting paper 

 oq the forms of the groups Corvus coronoides Vig. & Horsf . 

 (Band XII, Heft 4, May 1916, pp. 277-304). 



The following is a rough translation of the parts with 

 which this note deals : — 



(p. 284). Corvus coronoides andamanensis Beavan. 



Corvus andamanensis Beavau ex Tytler MS. [Ibis 1806, p. 420 — 

 .\ndamaus : nomen nudum !] Ibis 1867, p. 328 — Andamans. 



Like C. c. intermedius, but on the average with shorter 

 wings and a longer, higher bill. Base of feathers in adults 

 more or less pronounced white, never grey. 



Length 'of wings : Assam : 328, 337. Upper Burma : 

 294-343 (6 examples) 2. Tenasserim : 279-343. (Average 

 of 12 examples: 312.8). Penang : 331. Andamans: 

 292-341 (Average of 10 examples : 313.1).. 



' Or species, as I should probably say. C.B.K. 

 'I have omitted a number of individual measurements 

 throughout. C.B>K. 



