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* Arachnothera longirostra zarhina Oberli. 
Arachnothera longirostra zarhina (Jberholser, Smiths. Misc. Coll, 
lx, no. ", 1912, p. 19; Bangkaru Island, Banjak Islands. 
Dish. — Banjak Islands, West Sumatra. 
Arachnothera long! rostra niasensia van Oort. 
Arachnothera longirostra niasensis van Oort. Notes Leyden Mus. 
xxx ii, 1910, p, 195 : Nias Island. 
Dish. — Nias Island, West Sumatra. 
Arachnothera magna ( Hodgs. ) . Large Streaked Spider-hunter. 
Arachnothera magna magna (Hodgs.). 1 * 3 
Cinnyris magna Hodgson, Ind. Rev. ii, 1837, p. 372 : Nepal. 
Dish. — Malay States. 
Arachnothera affinis ( Horsf . ) . (key-breasted Spider-hunter. 
Arachnothera affinis affinis ( Horsf.). 
Cinnyris affinis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1821, p. 166: 
Java, 
Neetarinia inernata (sic) Temm., PI. Col, 84. fig. a, 1S21 : Java, 
Dish. — Java; Bali. 
Arachnothera affinis modes ta (Eyton). 
Anthreptes modesta Eyton, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1S39, p. 105 : Malacca. 
Arachnothera laiirostris Blyth, Journ. Asiat, Soc. Beng, xii, (843, p, 983 ; 
Singapore. 
Arachnothera concolor Schleg., Veth's Midden-Sumatra, Aves, PI, 1 : 
Sumatra. 
Arachnotkera affinis heliophilus Oberh., Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. xiii, 
1923, p. 22b : North-nest Sumatra. 
Distr . — Malay Peninsula. 
Sumatra. 
Borneo (part). 
Arachnothera affinis everetti (Sharpe).* 
Arachnoraphis everetti Sharpe, Ibis, 1893, p, 561 ; Mt. Kinabalu, 
North Borneo. 
Dish . — Borneo (part). 
1 h is noteworthy that the Malayan form seems not to be . 4 . m. aurata 
Blytb, Journ. Asiat, Soc, Bengal, xxiv, 1855, p. 478 (Pegu). 
3 While I think that everetti is only a subspecies of . 4 . affinis the ranges 
of A. a. modesta and . 4 . a. everetti seem curiously complicated in Borneo : 
the latter seems to be a mountain form descending into the lowlands in the 
northern part of the island. 
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