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Dr. Ernst Hartert exhibited and described some new 

 subspecies of birds from the Indo-Malayan countries, which 

 he characterized as follows : — 



Malacocincla sepiaria tardinata, subsp. nov. 



Differs from M. s. sepiaria of Java and Bali by the brighter 

 ochraceous colour on the flanks and under tail-coverts, this 

 colour spreading nearly over the whole abdomen, which 

 is broadly white in the middle in M. s. sepiaria. Wing : 

 S 77 mm., ? 71. , . 



Hab. Eastern Malay Peninsula. 



Type : S • Gunong Tahan^ 1000 feet, collected by John 

 Waterstradt in Nov. 1901. In the Tring Museum. 



Obs. This bird agrees in coloration of the underside 

 exactly with Malacocincla {Turdinus auct.) ahbotti olivacea, 

 while it has the beak and grey superciliary line, as well as 

 the dark feet^ of M. sep. sepiaria. It has, consequently, in 

 collections been mistaken for either of them. In Nov. Zool. 

 1902, p. 563^ I called attention to the differences, but at 

 the same time enumerated the specimen from Gunong Tahau 

 under M. a, olivacea (p. 562). 



Pomatorhinus schisticeps cryptanthus, subsp. nov. 



Colonel Harington, in his " Notes on Indian Timeliidce,'^ 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. of Nov. 1914, p. 330, has 

 already called attention to this form, in saying that speci- 

 mens from Nepal to Sikkim and Bhutan " are noticeable 

 for the dark colour of the chestnut band, whilst those to 

 the east gradually get paler, until they merge into P. s. 

 mearsi O. -Grant." As it- is, most of these Pomatorhini are 

 somewhat variable in coloi-ation, but all specimens from the 

 Cachar Hills and from Margherita in Assam agree fairly 

 well with each other, and differ at a glance from a series of 

 P. schisticeps schisticeps from Sikkim and Nepal by being less 

 dark and less olivaceous on the upperside, and by the chestnut 

 on the sides being brighter and richer, and extending 

 farther down along the flanks. They are, indeed, very fclosely 

 allied to P. s. mearsi^ but the upperside and edges to the 



