1917.]| H.C. Ropinson: Bards from Pulau Langkawi. 157 
Females. “DL —218,—,245, 258, 247; W. 128, 143, 13 
140, 133, 135; /. D4, 120) eh 20 el 20 eM Wa? sid. 2An 2092 
25, 5, 27; 27; US 7p oy 7a U7 
Stresemann (Nov. Zool. XX, p. 340) has separated the 
form from the south of the Peninsula, (type from Bentong, 
Pahang) as Surniculus lugubris brachyurus as having a wing 
averaging about 124 mm. with a tail always shorter than the 
wing. He includes in this race the birds from Borneo and 
Sumatra, confining the typical S. lugubris of Horsf. to Java, 
Bali and Ceylon, which is rather an anomalous distribution. 
Our series from the lowlands of the south of the Peninsula 
is unfortunately somewhat deficient in adult birds; a male from 
Penang has the wing 128, tail 127, a male from Ulu Selama. 
wing 119, tail 116; a male from Tanjong Malim, 126, tail 123, 
a male from Kuala Tembeling, Pahang, close to the type 
locality, wing 119, and tail 114, and two males from Temengoh, 
North Perak, wing ‘117, 120, tail 118. A female from Pulau 
Jemor in the Straits of Malacca, near the coast of Sumatra, 
has the wing 135 and the tail 130, while two males from West 
Sumatra have the wing 126, tail 123 and a female, tail 123, wing 
123. These specimens certainly bear ont Stresemann’s 
diagnosis. 
Specimens from the mountains of the Peninsula where 
the species breeds are however emphatically not this race as 
two males from the Semangko Pass on the borders of Selangor 
and Pahang measure wings, 146, 138; tail, 138, 135, and must 
be referred to the Himalaic form as also one from Taiping 
shot in January, wing 143, tail 138 mm. 
So far as the evidence goes it appears that two races are 
quite distinct viz. Surniculus lugubris, Horsf. from Java and 
‘Bali, which has possibly become very slightly modified in 
Sumatra, Borneo, and the South of the Malay Peninsula at 
low levels (S. 1. brachyurus) and S. lugubris dicruroides from 
the Himalayas, through the Indo-Chinese Countries to the 
north of the Malay Peninsula and southwards along the main 
range at high elevations. Judging from analogy the Ceylon 
and Malabarese specimens will probably also prove separable. 
These conclusions are substantially those come to by 
Stresemann from the study of the very large material in the 
British and Tring Museums. 
53. CENTROPUS SINENSIS INTERMEDIUS (Hume). 
Centrococcyx intermedius, Hume; Stray Feath i. p. 
454 (1873). 
Centropus sinensis (Steph.) ; Shelley tom. cit. p. 343; 
Robinson and Kloss, p. 41. 
Centropus sinensis intermedius, Stresemmann, Nov. 
Zool. XX, p. 322 (1913); Robinson, antea, vol. v, pp. 93, 146; 
Gyldenstolpe, p. 103. 
Sept., 1917. 9 
