1921] BoDEN Kloss : Notes on Birds. 225 



Length of bill : 



Java : 62, 69. Bali : 61. Kangean : 67. Lombok 

 61, 67.5. Flores : 62, 62.5, 64. Lomblen : 61, 64.5. Alor : 

 62.5. Wetar : 59-65.5 (5 examples). Timor: 57.5, 58.5. 

 Savu : 57.5. Siimba 58. 



Average of 21 examples : 62.2. 



Height of bill : minimum 20.1, maximum 24. Average 

 of 21 examples : 22.3. 



Distribution : Chain of islands from Java to Timor. 

 Sumatra^ ? Borneo- ? 



Summarising the measurements given by Stresemann 

 we have : — 



The subspecies macrorhynchus is shown to have both 

 a longer wing and a longer bill than andamanensis. The 

 heights of the bills provide no differential dimensions ; but 

 as regards shape Dr. Stresemann states that the culmen of 

 andamanensis has its highest point above the nostril [i.e., 

 the profile is arched proximallyj : that of macrorhynchus 

 is no higher above tlie nostril than at the base [i.e., the 

 profile is straight proximallyj. 



Dr. Stresemann goes on to say (pp. 295-6) : — " It is 

 very surprising to find that there is a broad space between 

 the two areas of distribution of the closely allied forms 

 andamanensis and macrorhynchus : this is— strangely 

 enough — occupied by a crow of another species, Corvus 

 cnca rompilator ! In all parts of the latter's range, the 

 southern half of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Nias, 

 Simalur. Borneo — so far as reliable reports go ' there is no 

 representative of the coronoides species as we should 

 expect ; at least in the southern half of the Malay Peninsula 

 and in Sumatra which are parts of the old land bridge 

 from India to Java. This is a case of allied, but 



' Cf. Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1902, p. 690 : 

 perhaps an error for Corvus enca compilator ! E. S. 



' Fide Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus. XXII, p. 245. E. S. 



' Finsch indeed records Corvus macrorhynchus from Borneo, 

 but probably means compilator. E. S. 



