1917.] H.C. Rosinson: Birds from Pulau Langkawt. 179 
g2. HERPORNIS ZANTHOLEUCA XANTHOLEUCA (Hodgs.). 
Herpornis zantholeuca, Sharpe, tom. ctt. p. 636; 
Robinson and Kloss, p. 63; Robinson, antea, vol. v, p. 107 (1915) ; 
Gyldenstolpe, p. 62. 
a—b. 2°. Burau, NW. Langkawi, 14th December, 
1916. No. 3638. 
“Tris reddish, bill pale horn, darker on culmen, 
yellowish at base, feet pale pinkish flesh.” 
Fairly common at this one locality on Langkawi in open 
ground near the sea. Widely distributed throughout the 
Peninsula and very constant in characters, rather more 
abundant in the north. 
g3. GEOCICHLA CITRINA CITRINA (Lath.). 
Geocichla citrina, Hume, Stray. Feath. vi, p. 250 
(1878) Seebohm. Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus. v, p. 176 (1881); Robinson 
and Kloss, p. 63; Gyldenstolpe, p. 46. 
a. &. Pulau Dayang Bunting, Langkawi, gth 
December 1916. [No. 3617.] 
6b. ¢. Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar,S.W.Siam. 12th 
January 1917. [No. 3895.] 
“Male. Iris dark, bill dark greenish black, feet 
pinkish flesh tinged with yellow. Female. Iris hazel, bill 
upper mandible dark horn, lower bluish horn, feet yellowish 
pink horn.” 
Besides the above series we have twelve Specimens of 
both sexes shot in various localities in Trang and on Terutau 
and Langkawi from November to March and a fine adult male 
from Menuang Gasing, 3-4,000’, Ulu Langat, Selangor, Feb- 
ruary 7th 1912. 
There has been much discussion and difference of opinion 
on the point as to whether Geocichla imnotata, Blyth, Journ. 
Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xv, p. 370 (1846), described vaguely as from 
“Malacca” has any claims to even subspecific rank. 
The “species” is supposed to differ in richer colour above 
and in the total absence of white markings on the wing coverts. 
As regards the tint there is very large variation, both sexual 
and individual, in specimens with markings on the wings (G. 
citrina) and this character can therefore be disregarded. The 
white tips to the wing coverts are very variable and specimens 
lacking or nearly lacking them occur together with those in 
which they are highly developed. It may further be noted 
that with the exception of the above-mentioned specimen from 
the mountains of Selangor, which has strongly marked white 
patches on the wings, no exactly localised specimens of any 
Geocichla of this type has ever been obtained in the Malay 
Peninsula south of Penang. 
