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Betong Saribas, and three males from Balingean, Sarawak, 
compared with seven of the typical Eom fot various parts 
of the Malay Peninsula. 
Oberholser (Smithsonian Misc. Coll. xlviii. 1905, p. 64) has 
pointed out that Setaria, of which the above species is the 
genotype, is preeccupied by Setaria Oken, 1815 (Vermes), 
and that the right name for this well-characterised genus is 
therefore Ophrydornis Biittikofer, 1895. 
Sharpe has stated that Malacopteron Eyton, 1830, is un- 
available for the well-known species associated with M. cinerea 
and MM. magna on account of Malacopterus Serville, 1833 
(Coleoptera), though on the analogy of such genera as Picus 
and Pica the contention may well be contested. 
Oberholser has therefore proposed for the species of 
the former genus Malacopieron (excluding Ophrydornis) the 
name Lorizillas, type Malacopteron magnum Hyton. 
Mr. E. C. Stuarr Baker described the following races of 
Galloperdia spadicea :— 
Galloperdix spadicea stewarti, subsp. nov. 
Description, adult male. Similar to G. s. spadicea, but very 
much more richly coloured ; the crown is practically black 
and the whole of the upper parts are a rich chestnut-rufous, 
the pale borders to the feathers being absent or obsolete. 
The vermiculations on the back are absent and those on the 
rump and upper tail-coverts nearly so. 
Below the colour is equally intensified and rich, and the 
chestnut extends right back behind the vent and on to the 
posterior flanks. 
The type male has grey spots on the breast, but this is 
probably only an individual characteristic as two males 
obtained by Surgeon-Major Fry at Trevandrum have no such 
spots. It should, however, be noted that whereas these spots 
in typical spadicea are more or less round in shape, in 
stewarti they are heart-shaped and are bordered with black, 
a feature only seen, and that very fainily, in one other 
specimen from Ootycamund. 
