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Mr. Stuart Baker described a new race of Flower- 

 pecker, 



Dicaeum minullum subflavum, subsp. nov. 



Similar to I), m. concolor^ but with pure white forehead 

 and lores, which are very conspicuous ; paler and greener 

 above, and paler, more yellow, and less grey below. 



Wing 46-48 mm., culmen 60-105 mm. The bill is as 

 long as it is in D. m. concolor, but seems more compressed, 

 though even wider at the base. 



Ti/jye. c?, No. 87.2. 1. 253, B.M. (Collection. 



Type-locality. Belgaum. 



Distrilmtion. Belgaum, N. to Khandala and Mahableswar, 

 and probably Central Provinces. 



On behalf of Mr. H. C. Robinson he also described a 

 new race of Blue Flycatcher from Annam : — 



In our account (' Ibis,' 1919, p. 444) of the birds obtained 

 in Annam we listed five specimens of .a Blue Flycatcher as 

 belonging to Cyornis ruheculoides ruheculoides, of which the 

 type-locality must be fixed as N.W. Himalayas, specimens 

 from Simla and Dharmsala agreeing exactly with the figure 

 of the bird in Gould's ' Century of Himalayan Birds,' pi. xxv. 

 fig. 1, which was almost certainly based on Vigors's type of 

 P licenicura rubeculoides (P. Z. S. 1831, p. 35) from some 

 unspecified locality in the Himalayas. 



I have compared Kloss's Annam birds with the whole 

 series in the British and Tring Museums, and think that 

 they fairly merit a name. 



I therefore characterize the race as 



Cyornis rubeculoides klossi, subsp. nov. 

 Resembles the forms C. r. dialikema * Salvad. and C. r. 

 chersonesites t Oberholser, in having the pale colour of the 

 throat running up into a point into the blue of the throat, 

 therein diftering from the typical form from the Himalayas. 

 Differs from the first-mentioned races in having the blue of 

 the sides of the head darker and duller blackish blue and the 



* Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii. 1889, p. 387 (type from Talio, Karen 

 Hills, Burma). 



t Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xsxiii. 1920, p. 86 (type from Trang, 

 Lower Siam). 



