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Similar to Dinopium javanensis javanensis^ but wing and tail 

 much shorter and the feathers of the center of the chest and breast 

 buffy brown with rather narrow cream buff centers without any 

 black. 



Adult male. — Pileum scarlet, the feathers blackish basally; a 

 superciliary stripe, running from about the middle of the eye back 

 on to the sides of the neck buffy white, bordered above anteriorly 

 with black ; rictal streak buffy white ; ear-coverts black ; malar stripe 

 black; mantle and wing-coverts pyrite yellow, the feathers of the 

 mantle fringed with light cadmium; lower back and rump chaetura 

 drab broadly tipped with scarlet; upper tail coverts chaetura black; 

 tail black; throat buffy white with a few small black spots down 

 the center; jugulum buffy brown, the feathers with buffy white 

 centers and a few of them with a blackish mark at the tip, but 

 hardly forming a band ; center of the chest and breast buffy brown, 

 the feathers with rather narrow buffy white centers; belly buffy 

 white, the feathers barred rather obscurely and narrowly with buffy 

 brown; under tail coverts buffy white barred rather narrowly with 

 chaetura drab; sides and flanks buffy white barred rather narrowly 

 with black; primaries fuscous black with oval white spots on the 

 inner web; secondaries fuscous-black, the outer web broadly pyrite 

 yellow, the inner web with oval white spots. Wing, 123; tail, 71; 

 culmen 30.5. 



Adult female. — Like the male, except the pileum is black with nar- 

 row white shaft streaks. Wing, 126 ; tail, 79 ; culmen, 28.5. 



In a large series of Dinopium javanensis from different parts of 

 the range of the species there are none that match the above spe- 

 cimens ; all have the feathers of the chest and breast heavily bordered 

 with black. Dinopium, raweni has a proportionally shorter wing 

 tip than Dinopium javanensis and for this reason, along with the 

 distinct color of the chest, must be ranked as a distinct species. 

 Dinopium javanensis has been recorded from Borneo. Tiga horneo- 

 nensis Dubois '"^ was described from an unknown locality in Borneo 

 as having the lower-parts transversely barred with black and can 

 not very well be the present species. Hartert writes ^^ that it is 

 only an abberrant Tiga javanensis., but Dubois '^ dissents from this 

 disposition of his species and points out that he had a pair. 

 Dubois -° had previously published a plate of the types, and they 

 certainly look quite different from anything represented in the series 

 of the United States National Museum. Aberrations are not likely 

 to occur in pairs and it is quite likely that Tiga horneonensis will 

 be rediscovered. 



"Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, p. 782. 

 IS Nov. Zool., 1901, p. 50. 

 «0rnis, vol. 14, 1907, pp. 43 and 521. 

 20 Syni Av., fasc. 1, 1899, pi. 1. 



