210 Journal of the F.MS. Museums. [ VoL. X, 
1919 ; and adult female from Kuching, Sarawak, obtained 
on 24th May, 1892 (ex Sarawak Museum). 
6. Chalcoparia singalensis phoenicotis (Temminck). 
Neclarinia phoenicolis Temminck, Pl. Col. 1824, No. 108, fig. I (co) : 
No. 388 fig. 2 (2) (Java). 
Males as in C. s. singalensis but rutous of the foreneck 
and upper breast deeper: abdomens less bright than in 
C. s. borneana. 
Females with the rufous of the foreneck much deeper 
than in the females of any other race (as deep as in the 
males) ; not extending on to the upper breast and ending 
abruptly as in males of C. s. koratensis ; but still more 
restricted. Lower breast and abdomen bright as in 
koratensis and interposita. 
Specimens examined from East. Mid and West Java 
(76,32). 
Chalcoparia singalensis panopsis Oberholser (Smiths. 
Misc. Coll. 60, 1912, p. 21) of Nias Id., West Sumatra, is 
described as having the females with the posterior lower 
parts more brightly yellowish than in C. s. singalensis. 
It must, therefore, be quite distinct from the adjacent race 
C. s. sumatrana. 
Of the males C. s. koratensis, of the females C. s. 
phoenicotis is the most distinct. 
When I stated, Ibis 1918, p. 218, that birds from the 
Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java were alike my material 
was inadequate, consisting from the latter places of one 
Sumatran male only and four old mounted males of faded 
colours from Java. C. s. phoenicotis is a very distinct 
form on account of the characters of the female: C. s. 
sumatrana less so; but sufficiently distinguished to need 
separation. 
A NEW RACE OF SHAMA FROM JAVA. 
Kittacincla malabarica javana subsp. noy. 
Sexes alike in colour and paler below than the males of 
Kk. m. tricolor (Vieillot). Typical locality Bantam, W. Java: 
Robinson and Kloss det.!) and with white, not rusty thighs : 
like the males of K. m. omissa Hartert (Nov. Zool. IX, 1902, 
p..d72. Lawang, E. Java) but without the indistinct white 
border to the black breast. 
Types. Adult male (No. 6277) and female (6112) 
collected by C. Boden Kloss, 23rd and 18th February 1920, 
‘Extract from M.S. ‘“ We consider that Vieillot’s citation of the 
locality of his Turdus tricolor (Nouy. Dict. Hist. Nat. XXX, 1818, 
p. 291) “les isles de la mer du sud” is at least as precise as 
Hartert’s subsequent fixation as “India” (Nov. Zool. IX, 1902, 
p. 571). Further the description by Scopoli in 1786 (Del Flor. 
Faun. Insubr., II, p. 97) of the Malabar bird as Muscicapu 
malabarica should prevent “India” being selected for a typical 
locality. We have, therefore, further fixed the typical locality 
of Turdus tricolor as Western Java.’ H.C. Robinson and C. Boden 
KXloss. 
