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On the other hand a bird from Tanjong Karang, coast of 

 Selangor, otherwise typical G. j. ornata, has the pectoral maroon band 

 quite as strongly developed as in true C.j. Jlam max illar is. The 

 intermediate specimens are intermediate in locality between the two 

 forms, and it is evident that both must be regarded as related sub- 

 specifically. 



548. Anthreptes macularia macularia Blyth. 



Anthreptes macularia, Blyth, Journ. Asiat Soc. Bengal, xi, 1842, 



p. 107 (Settlement of Malacca). 

 Anthreptes nuchalis, Blyth, op. cit. xii, 1843, p. 980 (Smgapore). 

 Anthreptes hypogrammica, A., p. 178 (Bankasoon, Malewoon) ; 



C. i, p. 323 (Mergui southwards). 

 Anthothreptes hypogrammica, E., p. 73 (Patani) ; F., p. 76 (Trang) ; 



H., p. 110 (Bandon) ; L., p. 118 (Junk Seylon). 



S imm. Victoria Point, S. Tenasserim, 24 Feb. 1919 [No. 4178]. 



c? ad., 6 imm., $ . Tapli, Pakchan Estuary, P. Siam, 6-8 

 March 1919 [Nos. 4450, 4491, 4497]. 



c? ad., S imm., 5 . Tasan, Chumporn, P. Siam, 13-29 March 

 1919 [Nos. 4554, 4738, 4903]. 



Male. " Iris reddish brown, bill black, feet oily yellowish 

 green". Female. "Iris chocolate, upper mandible black, lower 

 yellowish at base, feet oil green." 



Total length s , 142, 130, 132, 138 ; $ , 146, 138 ; wing c? , 67, 

 67, 64, 65 ; $ , 63, 58 ; tail d , 53, 56, 50, 54 ; $ , 57, 50 ; tarsus 6 , 16.5, 

 16, 17, 18; $, 17,16.5; bill from gape d , 23, 23,24,22; $,22, 

 22 mm. 



An investigation of the synonymy of the species reveals the 

 inconvenient fact that the proper name of this bird is not hypo- 

 grammica MuUer, but Anthrei^tes unacularia, Blyth, loc. cit. supra. 

 This name has hitherto been treated as a nomen nudum but is not 

 strictly so according to current usage : the reference reads "Anthreptes 

 macularia Nobis: a species allied in plumage to the Arachnotherae" 

 which is as adequate as many generally accepted descriptions. 



!• Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



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



J" Robinson, Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. M. I. Baker, op. cit., iv, 1920 (tlurd part). 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. M, 2. Baker, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i, 1922. 

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



iii. 1919. 



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