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This leaves the Malayan form without a name unless "Ginny- 

 ris cinereicollis" Vieill. (Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. xxxi, 1819, p. 502) 

 proves to have been founded on a Malayan species with a description. 

 Otherwise, if Malayan specimens are distinct from Indo-Burmese 

 birds, and it is almost incredible that they should not be, they will 

 have to be known as Arachnothera longirostra melanchima Ober- 

 holser, which we have shown in examination of long series to be 

 inseparable from South Malayan specimens (cf. Rob. & Kloss, Journ. 

 F. M. S. Mus. viii, 1918, Pt. 2, p. 244; id. Journ. Straits Branch Roy. 

 Asiat. Soc. No. 8, 1919, p. 131). At present we do not propose to 

 attach any subspecific name to the Siamese bird. 



Arachnothera magna aurata Blyth. 



Arachnothera aurata, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xxiv, 1855, 



p. 478 (Pegu). 

 Arachnothera magna, A., pp. 173, 507 (Tavoy) ; C. i, p. 327 (Tavoy). 



Common in Northern Siam and also in the Malay States but 



not yet recorded from the northern part of the Peninsula. 



554. Arachnothera affinis modesta (Eyton). 



Anthreptes modesta, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 105 (Malacca). 

 Arachnothera modesta, A., pp. 1 76, 507 (Tavoy to Bankasoon) ; 



0. i, p. 329 (Tenasseiim) ; E., p. 72 (Patani) ; F., p. 77 (Trang); 



H., p. 109 (Bandon) ; M., p. 414 (Tung Song) ; Salvad., Ann. 



and Mag. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, 1889 (Malewoon). 



c? . Tasan, Chumporn, P. Siam, 16 March 1919 [No. 4624]. 



" Iris brown ; bill greenish black ; feet yellow ". 



Total length 168, wing 78, tail 51, tarsus 17.5, bill from 

 gape 38 mm. 



There is not sufficient material to state whether any geo- 

 graphical variation occurs between northern and southern peninsular 

 birds; a male from Trang has a wing of 78 and a female from Khao 

 Nawng, Bandon, 72 mm., while a male from Temengoh, N. Perak, 

 measures 84 and a male and female from Kuala Lumpur 86 and 

 77 mm. 



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



56, No. 3, 1916. (first and second parts). 



J. Bobinson. Journ. F. M. 8. Mus. vii, 1917. M. I. Baker, op. cit., iv, 1920 (third part). 



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

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



iii, 1919. 



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