1917.| H. C. Ropinson: Birds from Pulaw Langkawi. 187 
I1r. DISSEMURUS PARADISEUS PARADISEUS (Lainn.). 
Dissemurus paradiseus, Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 225; 
Robinson and Kloss, p. 71; Robinson antea, vol. v., pp. 109, 150; 
Hartert. Nov. Zool. 1x, pp. 579, 580. 
Dissemurus paradiseus paradiseus, Robinson, Ibts, 
IQI5, p. 760. 
a-d. 26, 2%. Telok Wau, Terutau. 19-24th 
December 1916. [Nos. 3661, 3688, 3712, 
3727-] 
ef. $f. Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S.W. Siam. 
g-12th January 1917. [Nos. 3870, 3894.] 
“Tris carmine, bill and feet black.” 
Common on all the islands and on the adjacent coast. 
Regarded as a species in the old-fashioned sense, this King 
Crow, ranging as it does over the whole oriental region, probably 
exhibits greater variation than almost any other species within 
the area. 
While it is indubitably true that too many nominal 
species have been founded on material deficient both in num- 
bers and in range, the converse is undoubtedly true and at the 
present time it is not possible to maintain that only one 
species can be maintained. Without going into the whole 
question, which the material at my disposal does not admit of, 
it may be stated that so far as material from Java, Borneo, 
Sumatra and nearly the whole length of the Peninsula shows, 
we can recognize the following forms. 
1. A form with a fairly full, compressed and recurved 
crest with large rackets and a wing of more than 150 mm.= 
Dissemurus paradiseus paradiseus (Linn.). 
Tenasserim, Northern two-thirds of the Malay Peninsula, 
Southern Siam, Sumatra and Java. D. rangoonensis, Gould, 
is probably synonymous. 
2. A form with the crest less developed, slightly shorter 
wing and smaller rackets = Dissemurus paradiseus platurus 
(Vieill.) 
Inhabits the extreme south of the Peninsula, the Rhio 
Archipelago, Java and Sumatra and is connected with the fore- 
going by intermediate specimens in the central third of the 
Peninsula. 
3. Astill smaller form, wing about 140 mm., tail rackets 
still more reduced and with practically no crest = Dtssemurus 
paradiseus brachyphorus, Bp. Inhabits Borneo. 
II2. ORIOLUS MELANOCEPHALUS, Linn. 
Robinson and Kloss, p. 72; Gyldenstolpe, p. 23. 
a. dad. Lem Pia, N. side Telibun Straits, 
Trang, S.W. Siam, 3rd January 1917. 
[No. 3833.] 
“Tris red, bill pink, feet greenish grey.” 
