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the south of the Peninsula, while the type of Baker's proposed race 

 in the Natural History Museum can be matched exactly by the fol- 

 lowing skins from Malacca :—Nos. 86/10/1/2654, 2655, 2658; 

 65/6/80/155. South Malayan examples, moreover, are identical with 

 topotypes from Sumatra, and Temminck himself describes the belly 

 of his type as grey " le milieu du ventre et I'abdomen sont d'un gris 

 fonce" 



Therefore, whether E. m. griseiventris is proposed for the 

 whole of the Peninsula, or the north only, it cannot stand. Conti- 

 nental birds are the same as Sumatran ones. The Bornean bird, 

 however, is slightly different. 



Trochalopterum melanostigma melanostigma (Blyth). 



Garrulax melanostigma, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxiv, 

 1855, p. 268 (Muleyit, Tenassei^im). 



Trochalopterum melanostigma, Hopwood, Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. 

 xxvi, 1919, p. 854 (Nwalabo). 



Trochcdopterum erythrocejjhalum melanostigma, M. 2, p. 167 (Mule- 

 yit Mountain). 



The tj^ical race of this Laughing Thrush has never been 



found in Siam, but not improbably occurs on the higher hills on the 



Tenasserim border. 



394. Trochalopterum melanostigma peninsulae Sharpe. 



TrochcdojMruTn j>eninsulae, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 436, pi. xxxvii 

 (Gunong Ijau, Perak) ; H., p. 103 (Khao Nawng, Bandon). 



The pair above referred to, from 3,500 ft. in Bandon, are cer- 

 tainly very much closer to the Malayan than they are to be Tenas- 

 serimese race, but have the crown and throat very slightly paler. 

 395. Pomatorhinus olivaceus fastidiosus Hartert. 



Pomatorhinus schisticeps fastidiosus, Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 



xxxvi, 1916, p. 81 (Trang). 

 Pomatorhinus olivaceus, A., pp. 283, 515 (partim : Tavoy to Ban- 



kasoon) ; C. i, p. 71 (partim : S. Tenassei'im) ; Hume Stray 



Feathers, ix, 1880, p. 117'(Kussoom) ; F., p. 59 (Trang) ; H., p. 



103 (Bandon) ; Hopwood, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xxvi, 



1919, p. 855 (Tavoy River). 



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



.56, No. 2, 1916. (lirst and second parts). 



J. Eobinson. Journ. F. M. S. Mils, vii, 1917. M. 2. Baker, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i, 1922. 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. 



L. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, 



iii, 1919 



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