1922.] Remarks on Mr. Baker's new volume on Birds. 569 
same as Assamese examples; but Arakan extends over some 
five degrees of latitude and a considerable amount of variation 
may occur in such an area. The birds collected by Phayre are 
very distinct from Assam birds and it is practically certain 
they came from South Arakan, in all probability from the hills 
between Sandoway and Prome which I select as the type 
locality of X. /. flavescens. Allowing for age they seem to 
differ in no respect from brightly-coloured specimens from the 
South Shan States and North Burma (eight examples). All 
South Annam no material from Assam was available, but 
I have now four skins from Hungrum, N. Cachar and one from 
Manipur. All these differ from X. /. flavescens in being slightly 
less greenish above perhaps, and much less yellow below, the 
yellow except of the median lower abdomen, vent and tail- 
coverts being a slight streaky wash rather than a solid colour: 
they are paler, less deep olive (Ridgway) above and more 
yellow-washed, less deep greyish olive (Ridgway) below than 
X. f. sordidus. 1 propose for them the name 
Xanthixus flavescens pallens subsp. nov. 
Type. Male collected by E. C. Stuart Baker at Hungrum, 
North Cachar on 6th February 1895. Indian Museum 
No. 22956. 
The three forms of the species therefore are :— 
i. X. f. pallens Kloss (syn. X. f. flavescens Baker, nec 
Blyth) North-Western form. Assam, Manipur, 
Chin Hills, N. Arakan. = 
ii. X. f. flavescens (Blyth) (syn. X. f. vivida Baker) Central 
o orth Burma, Shan States, Karenne, N. 
Tenasserim,? South Arakan (type locality). _ 
iii. X. f. sordidus Robinson and Kloss (sy2. X. f. vividus 
Baker, fide Baker). South-Eastern form. 
South Annam. 
The material I have examine 
Survey of India and I am indebted 
the opportunity of again seeing it. 
d belongs to the Zoological 
to Dr. N. Annandale for 
lower below than the 



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achar series and is tending towards the typical race. 
? Not known from the ‘aay Peninsula, much less the Malay ints 
as stated by Baker. 
SURO SOS 
