1gIQ.] H. C. Roprnson: Notes on the Vertebrate 329 
Fauna of the Pahang-Johore Archipelago. 
The above two specimens have the angle of the wing 
and the axillaries rather brighter golden buff than in most 
specimens from the mainland. 
The race is therefore just recognizable. 
‘* Tris red, bill black, feet pinkish brown.” 
19. Kittacincla malabarica macrurus (Gm.). 
Numerous adult specimens from Pulau Tinggi and the 
adjacent islands and a very large series from the whole range 
of the Malay Peninsula and from Siam and Cochin China 
exhibit variations in colour among birds from the same locality 
which are comparable in degree with the birds from the 
Anambas described by Mr. Oberholser on not very large mater- 
ial as Kuttacincla malabarica ochroptila and K. m. heterogyna, 
loc. cit. supra, pp. 5I—4x. 
As regards size it would appear that the former race is 
larger than any of about fifty adults from our series but the 
average difference is only about 4 mm., which may quite 
possibly be due to the great difference in the numbers of the 
two series. I cannot but think that in faunal papers of this 
kind no good purpose is served by describing subspecies of 
such extreme tenuity unless the whole species over its whole 
range is adequately discussed. 
We are compelled to use the name malabarica disinterred 
by Dr. Richmond, though fortunately it docs not alter the 
name of the Malayan and eastern race, unless the Pulau Con- 
dor bird should prove distinct. In this event it will probably 
be necessary to give a new subspecific name to the Sumatran 
and Malayan birds. MHartert has fixed the type locality of 
K. tricolor (Vieill.) as ‘‘India’’; this name therefore lapses as a 
synonym of K. malabarica (Scop). 
20. Gracula javana javana (Cuv.) 
A male and two females shot in June 1908 and June 1915 
have the wings 183, 181, 188 mm. I cannot distinguish them 
from specimens from the whole of the Malay Peninsula, from 
Borneo and from Sumatra though unfortunately we have not 
been able to compare them with the typical form from Java. 
21, Aplonis panayensis strigata (Horsf.) 
An immature male in the striped plumage collected on 
June 18th, 1919, has a wing of 96 mm. The bill is not 
specially large, and the specimen has to be referred to the 
mainland form, which is identical with that of Java and 
Sumatra. The birds from Pulau Aor, on the other hand, have 
somewhat larger bills and on an average rather longer wings. 
Possibly they are to be referred to the Anamba race, 
Lamprocorax panayensis heterochlorus, Oberholser, loc. cit. 
supra, which was described on two males with wings, 108 
and 112 mm. 
