186 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums.  [Vov. VII, 
Muscicapa panayensts, Scop. Del. Flor et Faun. Insubr. ui, p. 96, 
(1783) from the Philippines. 
He is also correct in stating that there is a gradual transi- 
tion from A. p. strigatus to A. s. affinis from Tipperah and 
Cachar, which is a larger bird with a more reddish violet 
sheen on the lower surface. It should be mentioned however 
that Hume (Stray Feath. vi, p. 394) absolutely denies that 
these differences exist. 
The species is evidently extremely plastic and varies 
greatly in many of the small islands in the Malaysian area 
principally in size, in the development of the bill and in the 
degree and tinge of the metallic sheen on the plumage, some 
forms being almost dull black. 
109. ANTHUS RICHARDI MALAYENSIS (Eyton.) 
Anthus malayensis, Eyton P. Z. S. 1839, p. 104. 
Anthus richardi malayensis, Stvesemann, Nov. Zool. 
X1X, p. 316 (1912). 
Anthus malayensis, Robinson and Kloss. Ibis, 1917, 
p. 74; Robinson J., F.M.S. Mus. V, p. 151 (1914). 
Anthus rufulus (part.) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
X, P- 574. 
Corydalla malayensis, Hume, S. F. viii, p. 65 (1879). 
a. ¢.ad Pulau Langkawi. 17th February, 1909. 
6b. %.ad Pulau Langkawi. 27th Scptember, 1915. 
Wings 82, 77; Tarsi 29, 27. 
This is a resident bird in the Malay Peninsula, whence no 
reliably identified examples of other races have been recorded. 
Stresemann’s method of treating rufulus as a race of richardi 
and malayensis as its Malayan representative seems the most 
satisfactory way of regarding this bird. 
110. DicRURUS ANNECTANS (Hodgs.) 
Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 231; Robinson and Kloss, p. 72; 
Robinson, Ibis, 1915, p. 761. 
a ¢%.imm. Telok Wau, Terutau. 20th Decem- 
ber 1916. [No. 3680.] 
b-c. 2 6 ad. W. side Pulau Telibun, Trang, S.W. 
Siam. i1-2nd January 1917. [Nos. 3806, 
3810. | 
“Tris carmine, bill and feet black.” 
This species ts certainly merely a winter visitor to the 
Malay Peninsula and Straits of Malacca and no specimen has 
been obtained between the months of April and September. 
Immature birds indicated by the large amount of white in the 
plumage are always in the great majority. Little is known 
definitely of its distribution in the Indian Empire but it appears 
probable that it is a breeding bird in Upper Assam and the 
lower Himalayan foothills, west to Nepal. 
