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IX. NINE NEW ORIENTAL BIRDS. 
By H. C. RoBInson AND C. BopEN KLOss. 
1. Treron bisincta praetermissa subsp. noy. 
Larger than JT. b. bisincla (Jerdon) from Madras 
(wing 144) : differs from JT. 6. domvilti (Swinh.) from 
Hainan in having the grey nuchal patch in the female clear 
and more extensive whereas, fide Hartert, it is indistinct and 
small in the island bird (Nov. Zool. XVII, 1910, p. 193). 
Hartert has inadvertently described the Ceylon birds 
as being smaller than Madras individuals (l.c.s.) though 
his specimens are exactly the same size as typical birds, 
and leggei is therefore synonomous with b. bisincta. 
Swinhoe states that domvilii is smaller than the typical 
form (presumably the bird now described), but this is 
denied by Hartert. 
The range of this race is probably from Bengal and 
Assam southward to the Malay States, and in the north, 
eastwards to China where the wing averages 156 mm. 
(fide Baker, India Pigeons and Doves (1913) p. 51). 
Types. Adult male and female from Koh Lak, South- 
West Siam. Collected by H. C. Robinson and C. Boden 
Kloss on 5th April, 1919. Collector’s Nos. 5075, 5074. 
Wings 162, 161 mm. 
Specimens examined. Thirteen from the Malay 
Peninsula. Wings 157-163 mm. 
Birds from East and South-East Siam and Java 
(apparently first met with in the island by Kloss early in 
1920) are smaller, the wing being always under 150 mm. 
and these may represent another race. We expect to settle 
the point shortly. 
2. Macropygia emiliana borneensis, subsp. nov. 
Differs from the typical race from Java (typical locality 
here specified as the plains of Central Java) in having the 
head and nape distinctly darker, the breast more amythstine, 
the centre of the abdomen paler, tending towards buff. 
Wing of type, 163 mim. 
Type. Adult male collected at Lingit, Saribas, 
Sarawak, Western Borneo, by Native Collector in March, 
1917. 
Series examined. Fiye adult males and two females; 
all from Sarawak, compared with a large serics of Javan 
birds from all parts of the island. Specimens from Java, 
atlain a greater length of wing than any of our Bornean 
birds (one male, 180 mm.). 
3. Zanclostomus javanicus pallidus subsp. nov. 
Differs from Z. j. javanicus (Horsf.) of Java as being 
paler below : the rufous area less intense and the grey paler 
and more washed with buf, 
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