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Since we wrote on these birds of Indo-China * Ave have obtained 

 a series of Coracina javensls javensis (Horsf.) from the lowlands 

 of Java. 



In colour the Indo-Chinese birds we have seen are absolutely 

 indistinguishable from them, and it is only on a slight difference in 

 si/ce that we can base any distinctness : wings of 7 Javanese 

 specimens 152-163 mm.; of 18 continental Indo-Chinese birds (8 

 Southern Siam, 2 Cochin China, 8 South Annam) 158-172 mm. 



We may therefore call birds from Eastern Indo-China C. j. 

 larvivorus (Hartert) wings of type series 166-173. C. m. siamensis 

 (Baker) based on Siamese birds, will not stand : the deacriber himself, 

 apparenth^ ignorant of Hartert's work, regards Hainan and Siamese 

 birds as the same : also, as he says, it is inadvisable to create further 

 subspecies on the one unsupported character of size — where, by his 

 own showing, size is so variable. 



As regards the species n^mejavensin of Horsfield has priority 

 over iiiacel of Lesson. 



Coracina javensis larutensis (Sharpe), froin the mountains 

 of the Malay States (wings of 8 examples, 150-162 mm.), is a good 

 subspecies, differing from the typical race in being of a slightly 

 deeper shade, in having the grey of the underparts extending further 

 posteriorly, thus decreasing the whitish area of the lower abdomen ; 

 and in having much less grey on the outer webs of the wing 

 feathers : altogether a darker bird. 



350. Lalage melaschistus intermedia ( Hume ). 



Volvockora intermedia, Hume, Stray Feathers, v, 1887, p. 205 

 (Teiiasserim); A., p. 210 (Mergui). 



Campophaga saturata, C. melanoptera and C innominata, 0. i, 

 pp. 230, 1, 3 (Mergui ; Tavoy), vide C. melanoptera, synonomy, 

 Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind. Birds, i, 1889, p. 492. 



Volvocivora koratensis, K., p. 193 (E. Siam). 



■•■• Grancalus macei macei, Kloss, Ibis, 1918, p. 192 (E. Siam) ; 

 (rraucalus macei siamensis, Robinson and Kloss, Ibis, 1919, p. 450 ( S. 

 Annam ). 



A. Jiiinu! & navisim. Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E« O. Grant, Fasciculi MalaycuscB, iii (Birdsl, 1905. 



B. MiilliT, Die Ornis dcr Insel SaUinga, 188-2. F. Kobinson and Kloss, This, 1910-11. 



C. Oali's. Birds Urit. Burniali, Vols, i ^: ii, 1883. C Gairdner, .Tourn. X. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1915. 



D. Ijunhuto. r. Z. S. 1901. Vol. i. H. Kobinson, Journ. F. M. S. jUu«eums, v, 1915. 



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