188 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vovr. VIII, 
Dr. O. Finsch (Joc. cit.) has categorically stated that T. 
sepiavia (Horsf.) and T. minor (Meyer) the types of both of 
which came from Java, are not separable, and accepting his 
conclusions we must also assume that the Sumatran bird 
which he also examined is not distinguishable from the Javan. 
We have however, examined, besides the above-mentioned 
series, three others from the Bencoolen and Palembang high- 
lands, two others from Bandar Bharu, in the N. E. Sumatran 
Highlands, and one from the hills near Banjoewangi, East 
Java, which is presumably typical M. sepiaria sepiaria (Horsf.). 
The Javan bird agrees with the East Sumatran specimens in 
being generally paler below, the centre of the belly and throat 
whitish, not dull grey, the flanks and crissum less richly 
coloured, and the dark cap less pronounced. 
Possibly Meyer is right and there are two forms of this 
species occurring both in Java and Sumatra, the more richly 
coloured bird confined to the region of higher rainfalls, but we 
cannot distinguish the differences in size that he has done. 
We therefore refrain from naming our form, though, on 
the specimens, the West Sumatran bird is certainly distinct 
from that inhabiting East Java. 
The Malayan form, M.s. tardinata, Hartert, 1s separable 
at a glance from the Javan by the almost total absence ofa cap, 
which is only noticeable in freshly shot and moulted birds, by 
the richer coloured flanks, and the consequent restriction of the 
white in the middle of the belly. 
Eryhthrocichla bicolor (Less.). 
Erythroctchla bicolor (Less.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
Vil, p. 551 (1883). x 
Macalopteron ferruginosum, Blyth; Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. 
Neder]. Ind. xlix, p. 405, no. 317 (1889). 
a. 1%. Pasir Ganting, West Sumatran Coast, Lat. 
22S. junesrothyyno14., 7) No 20865] 
“Tris red, bill pale horn, dark on culmen, feet pale flesh.” 
Fairly common in dense low country jungle; neither in 
Sumatra nor in the Malay Peninsula ascending the hills to any 
elevation. 
Drymocataphus nigrocapitata (Eyton). 
Brachypteryx nigrocapitata, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 103. 
Drymocataphus mgrocapitatus, Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 308; 
Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. xlix, p. 404, no. 300 (1889). 
a-c. 246 ad.,1 6 imm. Pasir Ganting, West Suma- 
tran Coast, Lat.2°S. s1gth-2oth June, 1914. 
| Nos. 2033, 2050, 2059. | 
“Tris chestnut, upper mandible black, lower fleshy white, 
feet brownish flesh.” 
Expedition to Korinchi: 
