1918. | H. C. RoBinson & C. B. Ktoss: Birds. 221 
evident that Dr. Sharpe was correct in regarding the forms 
from Sumatra described hy Salvadori and Tweeddale as con- 
specific with Delessert’s species originally obtained in Pegu. 
Seen also breeding in the rice-fields at Balei Selasa, in the 
Padang Lowlands, and fairly common in the lalang grass 
round Pasir Ganting. 
Total length, 128; wing, 46; tail, 60; bill from gape 
16; tarsus 20.5 mm. 
Tephrodornis gularis (Raffles). 
Lamus gularis, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xu, p. 304 (1822) 
(nec. auct.). 
Lantus virgatus, Temminck, Pl. Col. 256, fig. 1. 
a. $. Pasir Ganting, Coast of West Sumatra, Lat. 
2°S. 22nd June, 1914. [No. 2086.] 
“Tris, bill and feet black.”’ 
Shot among Casuarinas on the sea shore. 
We have compared this specimen with a specimen of the 
typical T. virgatus (Temm.) from South West Java, which we 
owe to the kindness of Dr. J. C. Koningsberger and except for 
a slightly whiter forehead in the Javan bird find that they are 
identical. 
Tephrodornis gularis was founded by Raffles on a specimen, 
almost certainly from Bencoolen, less than a hundred miles 
south along the coast from Pasir Ganting. 
His type, and a drawing of it, were correctly associated 
with the Javan bird by Horsfield & Moore (Cat. Birds Mus. 
Pee GO ip. 170 (L854) ): 
When Dr. Sharpe wrote the Catalogue of Birds, Vol. 111, 
he correctly differentiated specimens from Java and the Malay 
Peninsula, but apparently had no Sumatran specimens avail- 
able. He seems, therefore, to have assumed that Sumatran 
specimens on which gularis was founded would be identical 
with Malaccan and not with Javan birds, as is usually the 
case, but in this he happens to be wrong, though the Malay 
Peninsula birds also occur in Sumatra, east of the main Chain 
(Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. ix, p. 52 (1887). We have 
specimens of it from the neighbourhood of Medan. 
The Malay Peninsula birds, with those from East Suma- 
tra last referred to, are totally distinct from the Java- 
Sumatra species, being very much larger: wing 97-107 against 
87: the forehead is markedly white in the West Sumatran 
bird and the tail and longer upper tail coverts glossy black, not 
earthy brown. 
This being the case and the name Tephrodorms gularis 
becoming restricted to birds from Java and West Sumatra, 
those from the Malay Peninsula and East Sumatra must be 
known as Tephrodornis sordida, Stoliczkat, a name that has been 
1 Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Part II, Physical Science, No. 4 (1870) D. 320. 
Part Il: Vertebrata. 
