374 MESSRS ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



This series is all fairly typical A. s. cava ; in Trang both 

 typical A. s. cava and birds intermediate between it and A. .«*. 

 siparaja occur: specimens from Terutau Island and the Butang 

 group, as well as from the adjacent mainland of Perlis, are inter- 

 mediate. In Penang the birds are true A. s. slparaja, while on the 

 east coast those from the islands in the Bandon bight are A. s. cava. 



The specimen from Pulo Mohea, though having the metallic 

 area extending over the crown, is there distinctly bluish rather than 

 greenish and is therefore intermediate between svparaja and car<i. 



All specimens examined from Trang, Terutau and Butang 

 Islands and Koh Samui, when not typical A. s. caret, are much nearer 

 to it than to the southern race. 



542. Aethopyga saturata anomala Richm. 



Aethopyga anomala, Richmond Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus. xxii, 1900, 



p. 318 (Khao Son?, Trang) ; F., p. 75 (Trang). 

 AetJwpyga saturata,, Baker, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xxviii, 

 1921, p. 87 (footnote). 



This race is only known from the typical series of fifteen 

 specimens, obtained on the mountains of Trang by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 We possess by exchange a pair of paratypes from Khao Num Phi, 

 3,000 ft., which indicate that the form differs from Aethopyga s. 

 saturata by the absence of the yellow rump-band and by smaller 

 size : from A. saturata wrayi, of the mountains of Perak, Selangor 

 and Pahang,* also by the absence of the rump-band, by the darker 

 red of the mantle which spreads less extensively to the sides of the 

 breast, and by the less bright broken greenish yellow breast-band 

 which, in the large majority of specimens of A. s. lurayi, is also 

 flecked with red. 



The yellowish green of the breast, sometimes almost forming 

 a band, separates both peninsular forms from the typical race which 

 is blackish on breast and upper abdomen. 



The female examined is duller, more greyish green than that 

 sex of A. s. tvrayi. 



* P. Z. S. 1887, p. 440, pi. xxxviii, fig. 2. 



A. Hume & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi. 1878. E. O. Grant, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 1905. 



B. Miiller, Die Ornis der Insel Saliinija, 1882. F. Robinson and Kloss, Riis. 1910-11. 



C. Oates, Birds Brit. Burmah, Vols, i i: ii, 188,3. C. (^airdner, .Tourn. N. H. !^oc. 8iaiu, i, 1915. 



D. Bonhote, r. Z. 8. 1901, Vol. i. H. Robinson, Journ. K. M. S. Museums, v, 1915. 



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