SOME BIRDS FROM PULO CONDORE. 89 



This race, which is just separable on the characters above 

 given, shows an even greater departure from the typical form, than 

 the forms inhabiting the southern Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, in 

 the reduction of the russet of the plumage, especially on the pileum. 



-f 11. Kittacincla malabarica macrura. 



Turdus macrourus Gin., Syst. Nat. 1788, p. 820 (Pulo Condore). 



3 6. "Iris brown, bill black, feet pale fleshy". Total 

 length, 255, 220, 165, Wing, 94, 92, 88 mm. 



Mr. Williamson's specimens of this long-wanted bird, though 

 not forming a very good series, enable us to state that it represents 

 a good subspecies, the males being paler on the breast than con- 

 tinental forms and with less black in the ouher tail feathers than in 

 any other race except K. m. suavis Sclater, from S. E. Borneo, 

 which is very distinct. The subspecies is confined to Pulo Condore. 



-v 12. Locustella certhiola. 



Motacilla certhiola, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. I, 1827, p. 509 

 (beyond Lake Baikal). 



Locustella certhiola, Hartert, Yog. Palaarkt. Faun, i, 1910, p. 550. 



Id, 2$. "Iris reddish brown, bill above blackish brown, 

 below pale pinkish brown, legs pale pinkish brown". Total length, 

 6 140; ? 153, 150. Wing, 6 61 ; $ 66, 67 mm. 



These specimens, evidently on migration, are all fairly adult ; 

 they have the under-surface whitish, without any tinge of yellow, 

 the breast tinged with buffy brown and the under tail-coverts 

 brownish, paler at the tips. The species is not uncommon on migra- 

 tion during the winter months in the Malay Peninsula and on small 

 islands in the Straits of Malacca, but appears to be only a bird of 

 passage, making a very brief stay. With us, moreover, quite young 

 birds, which are very different in colour from the adults, are much 

 more numerous. In these the whole under-surface is yellowish, 

 the flanks and under wing-coverts deep brown with a yellowish 

 tinge, and the foreneck, breast and flanks with narrow brownish 



black streaks. 



-\ 13. Orthotomus atrognlaris. 



Orthotomus atrogularis Temminck, Planches Coloriees, 1836, text in 

 Livr. 101. (Malacca). 



VOL. IV, NO. 2, 1920. 



