218 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums.  {Vou. X, 
PHILENTOMA PYRRHOPTERA (Temm.). 
Philentoma saravacense Bartlett, Sarawak Note-book, pt. 
IX (1896), p. 80. 
This name was given by Bartlett to a blue flycatcher 
from the neighbourhood of Kuching. I have seen the type. 
a male, which belongs to the Sarawak Museum. It is of 
exactly the same _ size as Philentoma  pyrrhoptera 
'Muscicapa pyrrhoptera Temm., P1. Col. 1823, No. 596, fig. 
2 (error! read 1) Borneo and Sumatra]. but is of the same 
blue all over as the foreparts, except on the abdomen where 
the blue of the breast gradually changes more or less into 
sullied white. 
Agreeing with the type are six other specimens for 
the moment in my hands :—a male and female (?) from 
Sarawak, two males from the Malay States, and two males 
from Sumatra. One of the Malayan specimens has the 
flanks slightly tinged with russet. 
It has been suggested that this bird is the young of 
P. velata, but I am sure this is not so. It belongs to P. 
pyrrhoptera, of which, it seems to be an aberration—though 
as shown a comparatively common one—and is not a dis- 
tinct species. The colour of the young male P. pyrrhoptera 
is apparantly that of the adult female but rather paler on 
the throat. —"n 
Philentoma intermedius Hume, Stray Feathers, IX, 1880, 
(Da US} 
This name was given to a female from Johore—an 
aberration like that named saravacense by Bartlett. As 
usual Hume’s deseription is very full. 
Philentoma maxwelli Bartlett Journ. Straits Branch Royal 
Asiatic Soc. No. 28, 1895, p. 96. 
This name was given also to a Sarawak bird which 
is an ordinary male P. pyrrhoptera except for an irregular 
chestnut patch on one side of the blue breast—an abnor- 
mality I find in a Malayan example as well. I am indebted 
to the authorities of the Sarawak Museum for lending me 
the Bornean types of the synonyms. Malaysian birds are 
not separable into subspecies. 
CRYPTOLOPHA TRIVIRGATA. 
Since we commented on Sumatran examples of 
Cryptolopha trivirgata (Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. 
VIII, pt. 2, 1918, p. 167), the F.M.S. Museums have obtained 
a large series of this bird from Java and now comparing 
with them an equally large Sumatran series, I can detect no 
differences : the birds of the Sunda Islands are larger than 
other Malaysian birds and are of the typical form C. ft. 
trivirgata (Strickl., type locality, Java)’. 
*See, however, Noy. Zool. XX VII, 1920, p. 462 where Hartert 
States there is no difference in wing length. But the series on 
which my remarks are based is much larger than any other 
assembled. 
