1921} BopeN Kross. Notes on Birds. 291 
2. From East Java (Bali Strait io Idjen Massif) ; 67. 
68, 68, 74 mm. M. s. minor 
3. From Mid Java (Karongbolang on the §. Coast, 40 
miles E. of Tjilitjap) ; 72, 68, 76 mm. These are truly 
typical of neither form: the first might be placed with 
s. sepiaria, the others with s. minor. 
Meyer gives wings of 61-64 mm. for minor ; 70-72 
mm. for sepiaria : but there is no real difference in size as 
Buttikofer points out. See also Finsch (Notes Leyd. Mus. 
XXII, p. 220) who finds the wings to vary indiscriminately 
from 65 to 74 mm. as I do. 
Except on the heads the colour differences given by 
Meyer are not visible in the freshly collected series. 
CHIBIA HOTTENTOTTA. 
1g ad,1¢ imm., 22 imm., 12 juv. Badjoelmati,. 30 
miles north of Banjoewangi, East Java, 31st January—7th 
February, 1920. 
Total length (46 ¢, 2 2) 308, 300, 285, 288. Tail, 144. 
Iiei2on tao. Wine, 155, 153, 150, 143. Tarsus, 25, 25.5, 
20; 24. Bill from gape, 38, 38, 37, 35 ; from nostril, 25, 23, 
22.5, 22 mm. 
“ Tris, adult male veltowish white, immature birds dark. 
3ill black, tip and gape whitish in immature birds. Feet 
black.” 
The immature specimens lack the spangles on the head 
and breast and have no frontal hairs, shoulder plumes or 
curled tail feathers. 
The colour and plumage characters of this bird are 
exactly those of C. hottentoltta (which occurs on_ the 
Continent as far south as South Tenasserim and Cochin- 
China only ; for this species is another instance of that 
interesting anomaly in distribution in which a number of 
species common in Indo-China are absent in the Malay 
Peninsula, but appear again in Java and sometimes in 
Borneo and Sumatra) and apparently of leucops, Wallace, 
of Celebes and pectoralis Wallace, of the Xulla Islands. In 
the shape of the bill it agrees with the two last, the bill 
being higher, less tapering and more keeled than in con- 
linental birds: it is in fact the bill of the so-called 
Dicruropsis sumatranus  (Wardl . Rams.) somewhat 
clongated ; and Jarger of course, to agree with the size of 
the bird. Except for larger size and perhaps a propor- 
lionately slightly heavier bill, it scarcely differs from 
borneensis Sharpe. 
The iris is yellowish white, thus closely agreeing with 
leucops. 
I cannot definitely determine the form for lack of 
material and literature : from the Thousand Islands at the 
N.W. end of Java termeuleni has been described by Finsch 
and from Kangean Id., at the N.E. end, jentinki, by 
Vorderman. 
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