1918. ] H. C. Ropinson & C. B. Kioss: Birds. 231 
Immature birds have the feathers of the posterior part of 
the crown tipped with whitish and the primary coverts tipped 
with rufous. ; 
This is an Indo-Himalaic genus, which, though occurring 
on Kina Balu in North Borneo, is absent from the Malay 
Peninsula and Java. 
159. Cissa chinensis subsp. minor, Cab. 
Cissa minor, Cab., Mus. Hein. 1, p. 86 note (1851) ; Sharpe, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii, p. 86 (1877); Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. 
Gen. xiv, p. 229 (1879); Nicholson, Ibis, 1883, p. 244; Sharpe, 
Ibis, 1889, p. 83; Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xu, p. 65 
(1891). 
Cissa chinensis, Bodd.; Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. 1x, 
pp- 72, 73 (1887); Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. xlix, 
p. 412, no. 401 (1889). 
a-f. 34,3 %. Sungei Kumbang, Korinchi, Sumatra, 
4,700 feet. rst April-roth May, 1914. 
[Nos. 555, 574, 867, 963, 1068, 1568. | 
el IE Barong Bharu, Barisan Range, West 
Sumatra, Eat. 29 S. 4,000 teehny 7th june: 
BOTA ENO 1897--) 
“Tris carmine, bill cherry red, eye wattle and feet ver- 
milion or orange vermilion, claws orange.” 
This Hunting Crow seems to be confined to a zone from 
about 4-5,000 feet as we did not come across it either above or 
below that limit. It was not very common and was a very 
shy and restless bird, generally met with in pairs. The note 
was a curious clanking cry in two or three syllables and is the 
same as that of the Malay Peninsula form. 
Cissa jefferyi, (Sharpe, Ibis, 1888, p. 383; id. op. cit. 1889, 
p. 84, pl. IV), from the higher parts of Kina Balu, North Borneo, 
seems sufficiently distinct from this form, being distinguished by 
its much shorter tail, by the absence of subterminal black bars to 
the tips of the inner secondaries and by the narrowness of the 
white tips to the tail feathers and the narrow black subterm- 
inal bars. The position and validity of Cissa robinsont from 
the mountains of the Malay Peninsula is, however, rather 
doubtful. The spectes was originally described from a single 
male from Gunong Tahan (Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xix, 
p- 9 (1906); id. Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. iil, p. 16, PJ. 111, 
fig. 1), and the characters relied on were the indistinctness of 
the black subterminal bars on the secondaries and the wider 
white tips as distinguishing it from C. minor and the longer 
tail and more marked subterminal black bars thereto as 
distinguishing it from C. jefferyt. 
We have now sixteen specimens from various parts of the 
Malay Peninsula. Of these, eleven, including one from the 
original type locality, agree well with the characters cited by 
Part II: Vertebrata. 
