1923} Rosmson & Koss: Eleven New Oriental Birds. 57 
O. c. consanguineus from Sumatra have wings 126-137 
mm. (cf. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. F.M.S. Mus. VIII, 
pt. 2, 1918, p. 236) while nine examples of O. c. vulneratus 
of Borneo have wings 126-134 mm. (fide Meinertzhagen, 
Ibis, 1923, p. 94). We have no examples of the latter, but 
according to Meinertzhagen they are separable from 
consanguineus by their deep blue metallic gloss and larger 
blood-red area on the breast. The two are similar in size. 
All these are instantly separable from the typical O. c. 
cruentus of Jaya by the much greater amount of crimson 
on the breast and primary coverts. Ogilvie-Grant has 
already drawn attention to the greater size of Malayan as 
compared with Sumatran birds (Fasciculi Malayenses, 
Zool. Ii, 1905, p. 69). 
Type. Adult male from the Semangko Pass, Selangor- 
Pahang Boundary, Malay States, 2,500—4,500 ft., collected 
ou the 26th February, 1908. Wing 140 mm., bill from gape 
32 mm. 
Specimens examined, thirteen males and seven females 
from the mountains of Perak and Selangor, compared with 
fourteen males and eight females from Sumatra and three 
males and a female from Java. 
In his “‘ Revision of the genus Oriolus ” Meinertzhagen 
(t. c. s. pp. 93-4) describes both sexes as similar. This is 
incorrect : we have already pointed out (t. c. s. p. 237) that 
the females are blackish throughout with at most, in a few 
individuals only, one or two crimson feathers on the breast. 
pune males, before the red appears, closely resemble the 
emales, 
Dicaeum sanguinolentum ablutum subsp. nov. 
Male. Like D. s. sanguinolentum Temm. of West 
Java ; but with less red on the breast ; throat and foreneck 
buffy, not suffuséd with red as in the typical race : in these 
respects intermediate bteween D. s. sanguinolentum and 
D. s. ignipectus (Hodgs.) 
Female. Foreneck and breast grey washed with buff 
instead of buff washed with grey : rump and upper tail- 
coverts like the back (again as in D. s. ignipectus), not red 
as in D. s. sanguinolentum. 
Types. Male and female from Tamansari near 
Banjoewangi, E. Java, 1,600 ft. Collected on 20th January, 
1920, by C. Boden Kloss, Nos. 5603, 5605. Wings 50 and 
48 mm. A second male was obtained on the same day, 
No. 5604. Wing 49 mm. 
This bird seems quite distinct as a subspecies from 
D. wilhelminae Biittikofer, of Flores (Notes Leyd. Mus., 
XIV, 1892, p. 199) and D. hanieli Hellymayr, of Timor 
(Zoologie von Timor, I, 1914, p. 56, pl. I, figs. 1, 2). 
