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Dinopium javanense palma^'um, Stresemaiin, Arch. f. Naturgesch. 

 87, 1921, p. 93 (Sumatra and Malacca). 



2 cJ,* 2 9. Tung Pran, Takuatung, Peninsular Siam, 14 

 Februaiy 1919 (Nos. 3989, 3990*, 3991, 4011). 



" Iris chestnut ; bill slate, culmen black ; feet plumbeous sage 

 green." 



Total length d, 271, 283*; 2, 262, 270; wing c?, 134, 141*; 

 9, 133, 136; tail d% 103, 108*; §, 102, 110; tarsus 6, 23, 23*; 9, 

 22, 22 ; bill from gape cT, 34, 34.5* ; $, 33, 33 mm. 



Dr. Stresemaun has recently separated Sumatran birds from 

 'the typical Javan form on account of smaller size and named them 

 D. J, palmarum (l.c.s.), giving the wing-length as 122-136 mm. 

 10 ex.). Hesse records 128-132 (4 ex.) : Sumatran birds measured by 

 ushave wings 122-135 (19 ex.): on the other hand. Baker (Ibis, 1919, 

 p. 206) records Sumatran measurements as 118-139 {8 ex.). 



For Javan birds Stresemann has 131-140 (6 ex.). Hesse re- 

 cords specimens of 136.5 and 142.5 : our series measures 126-137 (21 

 ex.) and Baker gives 124-138 (23 ex.). 



Birds of the Malay Peninsula south of 10"" lat. measure, ac- 

 cording to Baker, 122-136 (31 ex.) : our series has wiogs 125-141 

 (27 ex.). 



To summarise these figures: — 

 Java, Avings 124-142.5 



Malay Peninsula, south of 10", wings 122-141 

 Sumatra, wings 118-139. 



There seem scarcely any grounds for separation in these 

 dimensions : but we are,not concerned for the moment with Suma- 

 tran birds. Stresemann has, however, associated Malayan birds 

 (south of the Isthmus of Kra) with D. j. pahnarum ; but we cannot 

 separate them from the tj^ical Javanese form. 



* No. 3990 (c5') is practically D. javanense intermedia. 



I. Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, No. 2, 1916. (first pari). 



J. Kobinson. Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917 Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. ■ (second part). 



W. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, M.I. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii, 1919. (third part). 



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