31 [Vol. xxiii. 



Obs. All the nine specimens examined are from the Baram 

 River district. 



Specimen m" of the ' Catalojijue of the Birds in the British 

 Museum ' from Sarawak, A. H. Everett coll., is as large as 

 Sumatran and Malaccan specimens. 



CyANOPS FAIOSTRICTA SAIGONENSIS, Subsp. n. 



Cyanops phceostricta, Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 76 

 (1891). 



Adult. Similar to C. f. faiostricta from Aunam, Tonkin, 

 and South China, but smaller and with a shorter liilj. The 

 head is somewhat lighter and there is a large scarlet patch 

 on each side of the throat. 



C.f. saigonensis. Culmeu 27 mm. ; wing 105. 



C.f. faiostricta. Culmen 29-30 mm.; wing 112-118. 



Hah. Lower Cochin China. 



Type in the British Museum : Saigon. Tweeddale col- 

 lection. 



Prof. Neumann further remarked, regarding the Editor's 

 footnote in tlie last number of the ' Bulletin,' that he was 

 not at all of Mr. Ogilvie-CTrant's opinion that his two sub- 

 species of Guttera cristata were founded on seasonal changes 

 of plumage only. If this was the case, fresh-moulted speci- 

 mens were only to be found in Central Al'rica (Upper Congo 

 to Man), worn specimens in tiie Coast Region of German 

 East Africa, and intermediate ones in Upper Guinea. lu 

 addition to that the colour of the naked parts was very 

 different, at least in G. c. suahelica, which subspecies was 

 not represented either in the British or Tring Museums *. 



* rit will be noted that all the examples of Professor Neumann's 

 " Guttera cristata seth-smithV^ in the British Museum as well as those in 

 Mr. F. J. Jackson's collection were obtained in March. The type was also 

 procured in the same month. All are in very freshly moulted plumage. 

 The " G. c. suahelica''^ from German East Africa was described from 

 three examples in the Beilin Museum, two of which are adult and one 

 young. The date was not recorded, but they were presumably killed at 

 the same season. A moulting example of G. cristata from Sierra Leone, 

 in the British Museum, shows the great difference between the colour 

 of the worn and freshly-moulted plumage. — Ed.] 



