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similar extent of country in Asia. Besides Singapore and the ex- 

 treme southern point of Johore, we have collected G. g. chersonesus 

 at Bliah, Kundur, one of the Rhio archipelago, and the vspecimens are 

 no\\^ in the Tring Museum : it has also been taken at least twice in 

 • Sumatra. It is incredible that there are (as Mr. Baker states) speci- 

 mens from Johore in the British Museum with wings exceeding 

 170 mm. There were no specimens at all from Johore in the Museum 

 when the Catalogue was compiled in 1892, nor when one of us 

 searched the collection in 1920, and we cannot but think that some 

 mistake has been made in reading the labels. 



288. Chrysocolaptes validus xanthopygius Finsch. 



Chrysocolaptes vanthopygms^ Finsch, Notes Ley den Miiseinn, xxvi, 

 1905, p. 34 (Upper Maliakam river, Dutch Borneo). 



Chrysocolaptes validus, F., p. 47 (Trang). 



Chrysocolaptes validus zanthopygius, Robinson and Kloss, Journ. 

 Fed. Malay States Mus. viii, pt. 2, 1918, p, 148 (Sumatra). ■ 



The Bornean, Sumatran, and Malay Peninsula birds differ at 

 a glance from the tj^pical Javan form in having the back and rump 

 orange, flicked with flame colour, not deep crimson. 



A male from Lamra, collected on 22nd February 1910, a 

 female from Koh Khau, on January 7th 1910, a male from Chong, 

 24th Debember 1910, and a pair from Khao Ram, 1000 ft., Nakon 

 Sri Tamarat, 23rd February 1912, are the sole records for Siam ;the 

 bird is not found at all within British Indian limits. 



289. Hemicircus concretus sordidus (Eyton). 



Bendropicus sordidus, Eyton, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, xvi, 1845, 



p. 229 (Malacca), 

 Hemicercus sordidus, A., p. 128 (Bankasoon) ; F., p. 47 (Trang). 



A single female shot at Chong, Trang, on 8th December 1909, 

 and a male from Kliao Ram, 1200 ft., Nakon Sri Tamarat, 26th Feb- 

 ruary 1922, constitute the records for Siam : a male from Bankasoon, 

 S. Tenasserim, is the sole record for British India. 



I. Gyldenstolpe, Kiingl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. WI. Baker, .Toiiin. N. H. Soe. Siam, iii, 1919. 



.56, No. 2, 1916. (Hrst part). 



J. Robinson, .Tonrn. F. M. S. >rus. vii, 1917. Baker, .louin. X. H. Soo. Siam. iii, 1919. 



K. Kloss, Il.is, 1918. ' (second part), 



L. Roliinson and Kloss, .Toni'n. X. H. Son. Siam, M. I. Baker, .Toin-n, X. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 19-20. 



iii, 1919. (tliird part). 



VOL. V, NO. 2, 1922. 



