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Measurement: Wing $ 78*, 79, 5 77, 72: bill from 

 gape $ 19*, 18 9 17, 16.5 mm. 



Compared with two males and two females of 

 C. magnirostris and a large series of C. caerulifrons 

 Baker — a much smaller bird. We cannot refer these 

 examples to any known form and are very reluctantly 

 impelled to give them a new name. 



Kittacincla malabarica interposita, subsp. nov. 



Kittacincla macrnrus macrurus, Robinson & Kloss, 

 Ibis, 1919, p. 596. 



Differs from K. m. malabarica (Scop.) of India 

 and Burma (type locality Malabar) by its darker 

 female and from K. m. tricolor (Vieill.) of the southern 

 half of the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and West Java 

 (type locality) in having the feathers of the thighs in 

 both sexes white, hardly tinged with rusty. From this new 

 race K. malabarica macrourus (Gm.) of Pulau Condore, 

 off Cochin-China, differs in being paler on the breast in 

 males and having less black on the outer tail-feathers. 



Range. From South Annam and Cochin-China to 

 Tenasserim and down the Malay Peninsula to about 

 Trang as far as ascertained. 



Type, Adult male from Daban, South Annam: 

 collected on 14th March, 1918, by Boden Kloss. Wing 

 94 mm. 



Many specimens examined from the range indicated. 

 * Type. 



