OX A COLLECTION OF BIEDS FROM N. E. SUMATRA. Ill 



Wing. 9 . 141 mm. 



"When our previous article was written we had not receiv- 

 ed Stuart Baker's article on this species (loc. tit. supra). His 

 name for the race is in any event a nomen nudum as a reference 

 to the 31 use urn Ileineanum will show. The true origin of 

 plat ur us Vieillot, is admittedly uncertain but we consider that 

 the locality is fixed as Malacca and Sumatra by Tweeddale 

 (Ibis 1877, p. 314) and we now further restrict it to Malacca 

 sensu stricto. We possess considerable series of the Javan bird 

 to which if distinct, the name D. formosus, Cab. (Mus. Hern., 

 i, p. 111. 185<>) applies. 



123. Buchanga leucophaea batakensis, Eobinson and Kloss. 



Antea, p. 125. 

 Buchanga cineracea, de Beaufort and de Bussv, p. 125. 



1$ . 19. Bandar Baroe, Deli, X. E. Sumatra, 11th 



August, 1918 [Xos. 1062, 1063]. 

 Wing, 6 . 123: 9, 123 mm. 



124. Bhringa remifer remifer (Temm.). 



BJiringa remifer. antea. pp. 125. 133: de Beaufort and de 



Bussv. p. 2 To. 

 2 $ , 3 9. Bandar Baroe, Deli, X. E. Sumatra, 26th 

 ' August, 1918— 20th January, 1919 [Xos. 1113, 1284, 

 1309, 1366. 1367, 1411]. 

 Wing, S, 134. 128; 9. 125, 125. 124. 126 mm. 

 The advent of these freshly moulted specimens with per- 

 fect tails enables us to state that Sumatran birds belong to the 

 Javan and not to the recently described Malayan form B. 

 remifer peracensis Stuart Baker (Bull Brit. Orn. Club 

 XXXIX. p. 18 (1918). 



ORIOLIDAE. 



125. Oriolus melanocephalus, Linn. 



Salvad., Bull. Mus. Zool. Torino. XI, p. 21 (1896) ; de 

 Beaufort and de Bussv. p. 261. 



4^, 29. Pantai Tjermin, Serdang, X. E. Sumatra, 6th 

 ' December. 1918— 10th January, 1919 [Xos. 1241-2. 

 1330-1333]. 



Wing, $ . 134. 142, 139, 134: 9 . 137. 134 mm. 



Hartert (Bull. Brit. Orn. Club. XXXVIII. p. 65 (1918) 

 has separated the Orioles of this species inhabiting the area 

 from Peninsular Siam eastwards to Cambodia from the typical 

 Indian form under the name Oriolus luteolus thaiacous as 

 having more black in the tail and being slightly smaller. Our 

 large series, including many from the actual type locality, does 

 not bear out these statements however, and we cannot therefore 

 admit the subspecies. 



R. A. Soc, Xo. 81, 1920. 



