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Genus TERPSIPHONE Gloger. 1 * 
Terpsiphone paradisi (Linn.), Paradise Flycatcher. 
(Terpsiphone paradisi paradisi (Linn.), 
Corvus paradisi Linn., Syst. Nat. 10th. ed, 1758, p. 107 : Ceylon 
(Linn. 1766). 
Distr . — Extr a-limital . ] 
Terpsiphone paradisi affinis (Blyth). 1 
Tchitrea a) finis Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xv, 1846, p. 292 : 
Malacca. 
Distr , — Malay States. 
Sumatra (part); Rhio and Lingga Archipelagos; Billiton. 
Terpsiphone paradisi indochinensis (Sal.). 
Tchitrea affinis indochinensis F. Salomonsen, Ibis, 1933, p. 734 : 
Cambodia. 
Distr . — Peninsular Siam. 
Sumatra (north). 
Terpsiphone paradisi saturatior (Sal.). 
Tchitrea affiinis saturatior F. Salomonsen, Ibis, 1933, p. 732: 
Bhutan. 
Distr , — -Malay Peninsula. 3 
Terpsiphone paradisi borneensis (Hart.). 
Tchitrea paradisi borneensis Hartert, Bull. Brit. Om. Cl, xxxvi, 
1916, p, 75 ; Sarawak. 
Distr, — Borneo. 
Terpsiphone paradisi australis Chas. 
Terpsiphone paradisi australis Chasen, Ornith. Monatsber. 1935, 
p. 147 : Lampongs, Sumatra. 
Distr.— South (south). 
Java. 
1 Cf. Chas. and KL, Journ. Mai, Br. Roy. Asiat. Soc. vi, (3), 1928, 
p. 65 ; Salomon,, I bis, 1933, p, 730, 
3 We have a large number of these birds from the Malay Peninsula and 
it seems impossible to fix any definite boundary between the northern indo- 
chinensis and the southern affinis for not only is there a large area in which 
intermediate specimens occur, but the two forms inosculate. Birds from the 
territory of Malacca southwards are invariably affinis : those from Peninsular 
Siam are either indochinensis, or nearer to that race than to affinis . Some 
birds from Selangor and Pahang are also affinis. We cannot agree with 
Salomonsen (1933) that Sumatra is inhabited by borneensis. In that island 
the situation appears to be rather like that in the Malay Peninsula. From 
the north we have a pale male in brown plumage indistinguishable from 
indochinensis of Siam. Other specimens from further south are nearer to 
affinis which is the form occurring in the Rhio Archipelago. We have, 
however, seen very few specimens from Sumatra. 
3 Occurs as far south as Taiping in Perak, Malay States. 
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