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Page 44, No. 43. Read : — Porphyrio calvus viridis Begbie. 



I'orphijrio viridis, Begbie, The Miihsyaii Peniii!>vila, 1834, p. 515 



(Malacca). 



Elliot's name for Saigon and Bangkok birds, P. edcvardni, 

 will have to rank as a synonym of F. viridis, an overlooked 

 name which antedates it by many years. Hume determined 

 a Selangor specimen as " not calvits, but Elliot's new Siamese 

 species" We now have specimens from the Malay States 

 which we tind to be the same as birds from Chainat, near 

 Bangkok. All these ditt'er from tjipical calviis of Java and 

 Sumatra by having a considerable amount of gi'ey on the 

 head and by larger .-ize. A large series of F. o. calvus has 

 wings 210-230 mm : the wings of continental specimens 

 known to us measure from 240 to 275 mm. 

 Page 45. For Podicepedidae read: — Podicipidae. 



Do. No. 44. Read : — Podiceps ruficollis philippensis (Bonn.) 



(Jolymbusjiuriatilis Tuustall, is iintedatetl by C. rujicullis Pallas. 

 Page 47. bracket 10. Read: — 



LiUge, wing over 11 inches .. .. .. 11 



Meiliuni, wing between 8 and 11 inclieb . . . . 12 



Small, wing less than S inelies . . . . . . 15 



Do. bracket 15. 



• For S. sinensis read : — aS. albifroiit^ sinensis. 

 „ S. minuta „ S. a. albifrons. 



„ S. saundersi „ *S'. a. saundersi. 



Page 48, No. 40. An earlier name for this tern is Hydrochelidon 

 leucopareia (Temm.). 



,SierHa leucopareia, Tenun., Man. d' Orn. ii, 1820, p. 746 (Hungary). 

 Birds from Java, India and China have received the names 

 oi javanica Horsf., Indica Stephens, and swlahoei Mathews, 

 respectively, but Me are not in a position to determine Siam- 

 ese birds subspecifically. Matliews considers them to be 

 H. I. javanica (Horsf.). 

 Do. No. 47. Horsfield named a Javanese specimen Sterna 

 jjrisea, and Mathews thinks that this name should be used 

 for the birds of S. E. Asia. Hartert only lecognises the 

 typical form. 



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