1921] Bopven Kioss: Noles on Birds. 223 
For the type locality of Chibia h. hottentotta I select 
Siam. As in the case of Cuculus (Dissemurus) paradiseus, 
Linneus based the species cn Brisson who recorded Siam 
as the native country of the latter bird. In Journ. Nat. 
Hist. Soc. Siam, III, 1919, p. 453, I restricted the type 
locality to the region between Ayuthia and the head of the 
Gulf and now select the same district for C. h. hottentotta. 
Mr. W. J. F. Williamson has obtained specimens from near 
Bangkok (t.c.s. p. 45). 
As thus localised C. h. hottentotta comes nearest, of 
recognised races, to C. h. brevirostris of China (type locality 
Chusan), but has a rather longer bill, but somewhat shorter 
wing. 
It seems that there are (1) in the north a larger bird 
with (a) a large bill in the Himalayas (chrishna Gould) 
and (b) a small bill in China (brevirostris Cabanis) : (i) 
in the south a rather smaller bird with a bill of intermediate 
size (hottentotta Linn.). Whether the bird of Bombay and 
Central India in distinct requires, as Mr. Baker says, a larger 
series than is available to show. I fancy it is not : the few 
measurements given are well within the range of a series 
from Burma and Siam. 
Thus we have on the Continent at present :— 
C. h. hottentotta S. Indo-China and Peninsula India. 
C. h, chrishna Himalayas, etc. 
C. h. brevirostris Eastern China. 
MALAYSIAN CROWS. 
CORVUS CORONOIDES. 
To a number of the “ Verhandlungen der Ornithologis- 
chen Gesellschaft in Bayern,” received only recenily, Dr. 
Erwin Stresemann contributes a long and interesting paper 
on the forms of the group' Corvus coronoides Vig. & Horsf. 
(Band XII, Heft 4, May 1916, pp. 277-304)... 
The following is a rough translation of the parts with 
which this note deals :— 
(p. 284). Corvus coronoides andamanensis Beavan. 
Corvus andamanensis Beavan ex Tytler MS. [Ibis 1866, p. 420— 
Andamans : nomen nudum !] Ibis 1867, p. 328—Andamans. 
Like C. c. intermedius, but on the average with shorter 
wings and a longer, higher bill. Base of feathers in adults 
more or less pronounced white, never grey. 
Length of wings: Assam : 328, 337. Upper Burma : 
294-343 (6 examples)’. Tenasserim : 279-343. (Average 
of 12 examples: 312.8). Penang: 331. Andamans: 
292-341 (Average of 10 examples: 313.1). 
= Or species, as I should probably say. (C.B.K. 
7] have omitted a number of individual measurements 
‘throughout. C.B.K. 
