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Sliarpe, however, referred Chinese andJupauese specimens to 

 the Crested Honey-Buzzard P. ptilonorhynchus, and Ridgway 

 did the same with a previous Japanese example. P. ptilono- 

 rhynclius is a synonym o£ P. cristatus cristatus, the large form 

 inhabiting the Philippines and Malay Archipelago, and not 

 the smaller Indian form, P. cristatus ruficollis, of which 

 P. ellioti is a synonym. 



Gurney was of opinion that Ridgway's bird was P. api- 

 vorus, but I consider it was more probably P. orientalis from 

 the description ('Ibis,' 1884, p. 275). 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker described the following new 

 subspecies of Sylviidae and Turdida3 : — 



Acrocephalus concinens stevensi, subsp. nov. 



This little Reed- Warbler is very close to A. c. concinens, 

 but difEers in being decidedly darker and also smaller. 



Wing, 3 c? c?? 49"5-53 mm., as against 52-57 mm. in 

 typical concinens. 



Breeding specimens from Lakkimpur have the under 

 surface much more brown, or fulvous brown, below than 

 the darkest non-breeding specimens of either A. c. concinens 

 or A. c. haringtoni. The wing-formula is the same as in 

 those two races, i. e. first primary about 10 or 11 mm. ; 

 second primary equal to 8th to 10th. 



TyiJe. S , 11.4.1905. Stevens Coll., No. 724. 



" Iris olive-brown ; upper mandible horny black, pale on 

 edges of commissure, lower mandible horny with blackish 

 tip. Culmen from true base 15 mm." 



Type-locality. Hessamara, N. Lakhimpur, extreme East 

 Assam. 



Several nests were taken at Hessamara, the eggs being 

 quite unlike those of either of the other races, smaller and 

 much browner. In fact, it was the striking difference in the 

 eggs which first drew my attention to the birds and to 

 sus])cct a new race before I had seen the skins. 



