222 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vov. VIII, 
completely overlooked, under which is given the description 
of the female from Malacca. It is stated to range northwards 
to Province Wellesley and Penang. 
It is smaller in size than T. pelvica pelvica, Hodgs., from 
Nepal, wing not exceeding 107 mm. as against 117 mm. in the 
northern race. Colour above clearer grey, the mantle not 
sharply differentiated from the head, centre of belly purer 
white. 
Neo-Type:—F. M. S. Mus. No. 821/07, adult male fram: 
Gunong Angsi, Negri Sembilan, Federated Malay States, 2,600 
feet. November, 1got. 
This form, which is the T. gwlaris auct., occurs throughout 
the Malay Peninsula from the extreme south to Selangor and 
in East Sumatra. 
Specimens examined:—6 males and 12 females from the 
Malay Peninsula, and a ¢ and 2 immature birds from East 
Sumatra. 
In the north of the Peninsula this race shows gradation to 
the typical T. pelvica of the Himalayas, but thé large series 
available is sufficiently distinct to merit a name as a new form. 
which may be known as 
TEPHRODORNIS PELVICA subsp. ANNECTENS nov. 
Differs from the preceding subspecies, T. p. sordida, in 
having the mantle brownish, breast and flanks more olivaceous 
grey, plainly differentiated from the grey capand nape. From 
T. pelvica pelvica it is at once separated by its distinctly 
smaller size. 
T. pelvica sordida (g males), w 97-104 mm., mean 100 mm. 
8 annectens (g males), w 102-106 mm., 103.3 mm. 
Es peluica (6 males), w I11-114 mm., mean 114.3 mm. 
Type :—Adult male, Lamra, Trang, No.. 453/10, F.M.S. 
Mus. 12th January, 1gro. 
Specimens examined :—Nine males and eight females. 
The range of this form is from S. Tenasserim to Perlis in 
the Malay States, though the exact limits north and south 
cannot, of course, be exactly indicated, as regular gradation 
takes place over the whole latitudinal range of the species. 
Two specimens from Koh Lak, S. W. Siam, have wings 
of I09-t1m mm., and are intermediate between anmectens and 
peluica. Their colour does not differ. 
Hemipus obscurus (Horsf.). 
Muscicapa obscura, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xii, p. 146 
(1821). 
Henvipus obscurus (Horsf.); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 
X1v, p. 209 (1879); Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 313; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. 111, p. 305 (1877). 
Expedition to Korinchi: 
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