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BULLETIN 


20 JUL 1927 
PURCHASED 


OF THE 


BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS CLUB 


EDITED BY 


N. B. KINNEAR. 


VOLUME XLVII, 
SESSION 1926-1927. 
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LONDON: 
WITHERBY & CO., 326 HIGH HOLBORN. 


1927. 


PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND FRANCIS, 
RED LION COURT, FLEET STREET. 


PREFACE, 


—_4¢——_ 


THe total number of attendances at the meetings of the 
Club for 1926-27 was 338 members and 99 guests, making 
a total of 437—a slight increase from the previous year. 


During the past session Monsieur J. Delacour described 
in the ‘ Bulletin’ seventy-one new species and subspecies, 
which were obtained by the second and third Franco-British 
Expedition to that ornithologically little-known part of Asia, 
French Indo-China. 


Mr. Sclater and Mr. Stuart Baker have continued to 
bring to the notice of the Club their researches in the avi- 
fauna of Ethiopia and the Indian Region-respectively, while 
Mr. D. A. Bannerman, the Hon. M. Hachisuka, Mr. H. C. 
Robinson, Mr. G. M. Mathews, Prof. Suskin, and others 
have contributed to our knowledge of systematic ornithology 
in different parts of the globe. 


In a short note Dr. C. B. Ticehurst drew the attention of 
Members to a neglected aspect of distribution of birds, e.7., 
the relation which a species has to the soil upon which it 
breeds. The factors governing the anomalous distribution 
of certain Short-toed Larks was taken as an instance. 


Mr. Bunyard gave an account of some further investi- 
gations, which he and Mr. Scholey had made in regard to 
the breeding-habits of the Cuckoo, and at a later meeting 
gave an exhibition of eggs, illuminated from within, to show 
the pigmentation. 


An interesting address on the habits of the Australian 
Bower-Birds was delivered by Mr. W. B. Alexander, Vice- 
President of the R. A. O. U., and his remarks were illustrated 


by a number of objects collected by these birds. 
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At the concluding meeting of the session Lord Rothschild 
read some notes on the formation of dark races by mutation, 
and explained his theory by means of a number of water- 
coloured drawings and a large series of specimens from 
different families. 


We should like to take this opportunity of expressing to 
Lord Rothschiid how much the members of the Club appre- 
ciate the exhibits he from time to time brings to the Club, 
in the preparation of which he spares neither time nor 
trouble. 


We regret to record the death of Mr. Dennis Cox and 
Mr. Henry Munt during the past session. Mr. Munt will 
be much missed—he was one of the original members of the 
Club and was a regular attendant at the meetings. For 
many years he acted as honorary Auditor and served on the 
Committee from 1917 to 1920. 


N. B. KINNEAR, 
Editor, 
London, July 1927. 


RULES 


OF THE 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS CLUB, 
(As amended, October 8th, 1924.) 


———_—_<___ 


I. This Club was founded for the purpose of facilitating the 
social intercourse of Members of the British Ornithologists’ 
Union. Any Member of that Union can become a Member 
of this Club on payment (to the Treasurer) of an entrance 
fee of One Pound and a subscription of One Guinea for 
the current Session. Resignation of the Union involves 
resignation of the Club. 

II. Members who have not paid their subscriptions before 
the last Meeting of the Session, shall cease, ipso facto, to be 
Members of the Club, but may be reinstated on payment of 


- arrears. 


III. Ordinary Members of the British Ornithologists’ 
Union may be introduced as Visitors at the Meetings of 
the Club, but every Member of the Club who introduces 
a Member of the B. O. U. as a Visitor (to the dinner or 
to the Meeting afterwards) shall pay One Shilling to the 
Treasurer on each occasion. 

IV. No gentleman shall be allowed to attend the Meetings 
of the Club as a guest on more than three occasions during 
any single Session ; and no former Member who has been 
removed for non-payment of subscription or any other cause 
shall be allowed to attend as a guest. Ladies are not 
admitted as cuests.. 

V. The Club shall meet, as a rule, on the Second 
Wednesday in every Month, from October to June inclusive, 
at such hour and place as may be arranged by the Committee. 
But should such Wednesday happen to be Ash Wednesday, 
the Meeting will take place on the Wednesday following. 
At these Meetings papers upon ornithological subjects shall 
be read, specimens exhibited, and discussion invited, 

VI. An Abstract of the Proceedings of the B. O. C. shall 
be printed as soon as possible after each Meeting, under the 
title of the ‘ Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club,’ 
and distributed gratis to every Member who has paid his 
subscription. Copies of this Bulletin shall be published and 
sold at Two Shillings each to Members. 

Descriptions of new species may be added to the last 
page of the ‘ Bulletin,’ although such were not communi- 
cated at the Meeting of the Club. This shall be done at 
the discretion of the Editor and so long as the publication 
of the ‘ Bulletin’ is not unduly delayed thereby. 


VI 


Any person speaking at a Meeting of the Club shall be 
allowed subsequently to amplify his remarks in the 
‘Bulletin’; but no fresh matter shall be incorporated with 
such remarks. 

VII. The affairs of this Club shall be managed by a 
Committee, to consist of the Chairman, who shall be elected 
for three years, at the end of which period he shall not be 
eligible for re-election for the next term, the Editor of the 
‘ Bulletin,’ who shall be elected for five years, at the end of 
which period he shall not be eligible for re-election for the 
next term, the Secretary and Treasurer, who shall be elected 
for a term of one year, but shall be eligible for re-election, 
with four other Members, the senior of whom shall retire 
each year; every third year the two senior Members shall 
retire and two others be elected in their place. Officers and 
Members of the Committee shall be elected by the Members 
of the Club at a General Meeting, and the names of such 
Officers and Members of Committee, nominated for the 
ensuing year, shall be circulated with the preliminary notice 
convening the General Meeting at least two weeks before 
the Meeting. Should any Member wish to propose another 
candidate, the nomination of such, signed by at least two 
Members, must reach the Secretary at least one clear week 
before the Annual General Meeting. 

Amendments to the Standing Rules of the Club, as well 
as very important or urgent matters, shall be submitted to 
Members, to be voted upon at a General Meeting. 

VIII. A General Meeting of the B. O.C. shall be held 
on the day of the October Meeting of each Session, and the 
Treasurer shall present thereat the Balance-sheet and 
Report ; and the election of Officers and Committee, in so far 
as their election is required, shall be held at such Meeting. 

IX. Any Member desiring to make a complaint of the 
manner in which the affairs of the Club are conducted must 
communicate in writing with the Chairman, who will call a 
Committee Meeting to deal with the matter. 


COMMITTEE 10926-1927. 
H. F. Wirxersy, Chairman. Elected 1924. 
N. B. Kinnear, Editor of the ‘ Bulletin’ Elected 1925. 


Dr. G. Carmicuart Low, Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. 
Elected 1928. 

C. B. Tictnurst. Elected 1924. 

C. Otpnam. Elected 1924. 

G. M. Marnews. Elected 1925. 

Major Stantey Frower. Hlected 1926. 


Officers of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 


Past and Present. 


Chairmen. 


P. L. Scrater, F.R.S. 
Lord RotuscHiLp, F'.R.S. 
W. L. ScuatTEr. 

H. F. WITHERBY. 


Editors. 


R. BowpLER SHARPE. 
W. R. O@Invir-GRANT. 
D. A. BANNERMAN. 

D. Setu-SMIrTH. 

Dr. P. R. Lowe. 

N. B. Kinnear. 


1892-19138. 
1918-1918. 
1918-1924. 
1924— 


1892-1904. 
1904-1914. 
1914-1915. 
1915-1920. 
1920-1925. 
1925- 


Honorary Secretaries and Treasurers. 


HowaRbD SAUNDERS. 

W. E. DE WINTON. 

H. F. W1irHersy. 

Dr. P. R. Lowe. 

C. G. TatBor-PoNnsonsy. 
D. A. BANNERMAN. 

Dr. PHttrp GosseE. 

J. L. BonHorTeE. 


C. W. MackwortHu-PRAED. 


Dr. G. CARMICHAEL Low. 


1892-1899. 
1899-1904. 
1904-1914. 
1914-1915. 
1915-1918. 
1918-1919. 
1919-1920. 
1920-1922 

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LIST OF MEMBERS. 


JUNE 1927. 
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Apams, Ernest E.; Lloyd’s, Royai Exchange, E.C. 3. 

Atpxanper, H. G.; 144 Oak Tree Lane, Selly Oak, Birmingham. 

APLIN, Otiver Vernon; Stonehill House, Bloxham, Banbury, Oxon. 

ArprrN, Lawrence; 7 Sussex Place, Regent’s Park, N.W.1. 

ArunpeEL, Major W. B.; High Ackworth, Pontefract, Yorks. 

Barty, W. Suorz; Boyers House, Westbury, Wilts. 

Baxer, Cuartes E.; Elm Cottage, Snaresbrook, Essex, E. 11. 

Baxer, E. C. Sruart, J.P., F.Z.S., F.L.S.; 6 Harold Road, Upper 
Norwood, S.E. 19. 


Bannerman, Davin A., M.B.E., B.A., F.R.S.E.; British Museum 


(Natural History), 8.W.7, and 132 Oakwood Court, Ken- 
sington, W. 14. 

Barrineton, Frepericx J. F., M.S., F.R.CS.; University College 
Hospital Medical School, Gower Street, W.C. 1. 

Batgs, G. L.; Bitye Ebolowa, French Cameroons. 

Best, Miss M. G. S.; 123 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, 8. W. 10. 

Beven, Dr. Joun O.; Kisit, Kenya Colony, East Africa. 

Braavw, F. E., C.M.Z.S. ; Gooilust, s;Graveland, Hilversum, Noord- 
Holland. 

Bosrinskoy, Count Atexis, M.A.; 5 Palace Gardens Mansions, 
W.8. 

Boorman, S.; Heath Farm, Send, Woking, Surrey. 

Boorn, H. B.; “ Ryhill,” Ben Rhydding, Yorks. 

Boyp, A. W.; Frandley House, near Northwich. 

Braprorp, A. D.; Garsten House, near Watford. 

Braprorp, Sir J. Rosz, K.C.M.G., M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.S.; 8 Man- 
chester Square, W.1. 

Brown, Grorar; Hotel Suisse, Kandy, Ceylon, and The Close, 
Purton, Swindon, Wilts. 

Bunvarp, P. F., F.Z.8.; 57 Kidderminster Road, Croydon. 

Buruer, Artaur L.; St. Leonard’s Park, Horsham, Sussex. 

Buxton, Antony; Knighton, Buckhurst Hill, Essex. 

Cuapman, F. M.; American Museum of Natural History, New 
York, U.S.A. 


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Cuarteris, Hon. G. L.; 26 Catherine Street, Buckingham Palace 
Road, 8.W. 1. 

CuersMan, Major R. E., O.B.E.; E. India United Service Club, 
16 St. James’s Square, 8.W. 1. 

Crarke, Brig.-General Gotanp van Hott, C.M.G., D.S.0. F.Z.S.; 
Brook House, Ardingly, Sussex. 

CLARKE, JoHn P. StepuHenson; Borde Hill, Cuckfield, Sussex. 

CrarkE, Col. SrepHenson Roser, C.B., F.Z.S.; Borde Hill, Cuck- 
field, Sussex. 

Cocurans, Captain Henry L., R.N. (Retd.); The Chase, Whaddon, 
Bletchley, Bucks. 

Cotzs, Ricnarp Epwarp; Rosebank, New Milton, 8.0., Hants. 

Cottert, A. K.; Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, 
8: W. 1. 

Cottier, Cuartes, F.Z.S.; Bridge House, Culmstock, Devon. 

Cottart, Nevitte; Guild Cottage, Epsom. 

Conerrve, Major W. M., M.C.; Hafod, Trefnant, Denbighshire. 

Cox, Major-Gen. Sir Percy Z., G.C.LE., G.C.M.G., K.C.S.I. ; 
c/o Grindlay & Co., 54 Parliament Street, S.W. 1. 

Cunninenam, Jostas; Fernhill, Belfast. 

Curtis, Freprrick, F.R.C.S. ; Alton House, Redhill, Surrey. 

Deane, Rosert H.; Highlands, Iver Heath, Bucks. 

Detacour, M. Jean; Chateau de Cleres (Seine-Inf.), France. 

Detmt-Rapcrirre, Lieut.-Col. A.; Shenley House, Headcorn, 
Kent. 

Detmé-Rapetrrrr, Lieut.-Col. H., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S.; ¢/o Lloyds 
Bank (Cox & Co.’s Branch), F. Dept., 6 Pall Mall, 8.W. 1. 

Drwuorst, Captain F. W., Royal Marine L.I.; Elmwood, North 
End, Hampstead, N.W. 3. 

Dosre, Witt1amM Henry, M.R.C.S.; 2 Hunter Street, Chester. 

Exuis, H. Wittoversy, F.Z.S., F.E.S., F.G.S.; Speldhurst Close, 
Sevenoaks, Kent. 

Evans, Antoun Humsrz, M.A., D.Sc., F.Z.S.; 9 Harvey Road, 
Cambridge. 

Ezra, A., O.B.E., F.Z.S.; Foxwarren Park, Cobham, Surrey. 

Ferrier, Miss Juprra M.; Hemsby Hall, Suffolk. 

Fintinson, Horace W., F.Z.S.; 5 Rosamond Road, Bedford. 

Fisuer, Kennera ; School House, Oundle, Northamptonshire. 

Fremine, James M.; Dildawn, Queen Edith’s Way, Cambridge. 

Fiower, Major 8. S. (Committee) ; Spencersgreen End, Tring, Herts. 


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Fromors-Raxowski, R. J.; Villa ‘* Les Iettes,” 185 Promenade de 
la Corniche, Marseille, France. 
GoopatL, J. M.; The Nest, Bembridge, Isle of Wight. 


Grant, Capt. C. H. B., F.Z.8S.; c/o Chief Secretary to the Govt., 


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Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika Territory, EK. Africa. 

Grey or Fattopon, Viscount, K.G., P.C., F.Z.S.; Fallodon, Christon 
Bank, R.S.O., Northumberland. 

Grirritx, ArrHuR F.; 3 Evelyn Terrace, Brighton. 

Gurney, G. H., F.Z.8.; Keswick Hall, Norwich, Norfolk. 

GyLpENsToter, Count Niss; Royal (Natural History) Museum, 
Stockholm, Sweden. 

Hacutsuxa, The Hon. Masausr; Mita Shiba, Tokyo, Japan. 

Hateu, Grorcr Henry Caron, F.Z.S.; Grimsby Hall, Great 
Grimsby, Lincolnshire. 

Harz, Rev. James R., M.A.; Boxley Vicarage, Maidstone, Kent. 

Harpy, Vice-Admiral E. C., R.N.; Eboney, Isle of Oxney, near 
Ashford, Kent. 

Harrison, Dr. James M., D.S.C.; St. Annes, 1 Tub’s Hill, Seven- 
oaks, Kent. 

Hart, 8. H.; Estate Office, Hammonds, Checkendon, Reading. 

Harrert, Ernst, Ph.D., F.Z.8.; The Museum, Tring, Herts. 

Hawker, R. M.; Bath Club, Dover Street, W. 1. 

Hearn, R. E.; 54 Brompton Square, 8S. W. 3. 

Hersert, Capt. E. G.; Bracken How, Sheringham, Norfolk. 

Herr, Grorrrey Seccomst, M.B., F.R.C.S., F.Z.S.; 86 Brook Street, 
Grosvenor Square, W. 1. 

Hopextn, Mrs. T. Epwarp; Old Ridley, Stocksfield, Northumber- 
land. | 

Hopxinson, Emittus, C.M.G., D.8.0., M.B., F.Z.8.; 45 Sussex 
Square, Brighton, and Bathurst, Gambia, West Africa. 

Iveuis, C. McFartane; Natural History Museum, Darjiling, India. 

Ineram, Capt. Cortryewoop; The Grange, Benenden, Cranbrook, 
Kent. 

JABOUILLE, PrerRE; Hué, Annam, Indo-China. 

Jackson, Sir Frepertcx J., K.C.M.G.,.C.B., F.Z.S.; 6 Gray’s Inn 
Square, Gray’s Inn, W.C. 

Janson, CuarLes W.; 16 Wilton Crescent, S.W. 1. 

Jourpain, Rev. F. C. R., M.A., H.F.A.0.U., H.M.S.0O. de France ; 
Laverstock, 13 Belle Vue Road, Southbourne, Hants. 

Kinnrar, Norman B., F.Z.S. (Hditor of the ‘ Bulletin’); British 
Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, 8.W. 7. 


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Kross, C. Bonen; Raffles Museum, Singapore, Straits Settlements. 

La Tovcue, J. D.; Kiltymon, Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow, 
Ireland. 

Larpiaw, Tuomas Gepprs ; Halmyre, West Linton, Peeblesshire. 

Lambert, Goprrey C.; Woodcote, Esher, Surrey. 

Lewis, Joan Sprpan; North Hall, Mortimer Crescent, Greville 
Road, St. John’s Wood, N.W. 6. 

Lonestarr, Tom G., M.A., M.D., F.Z.8.; Picket Hill, Ringwood, 
Hants. | 

Low, Grorgr CarmicuaEL, M.A., M.D., C.M., F.R.C.P., F.Z.S. 
(Hon. Sec. & Treasurer); 86 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, 
W..1. 


Lown, P. R., O.B.E., B.A., M.B., B.C., F.Z.8.; British Museum 
(Natural History), Cromwell Road, 8.W. 7. 

Lucas, Narnanist §., M.B., F.Z.8.; 19 Westbourne Terrace, Hyde 
Park, W. 2. 


Lynes, Rear-Admiral Husert, R.N., C.B., C.M.G.; 23 Onslow 
Gardens, S.W. 7. 

Macxenzig, Joun M. D., B.A., C.M.Z.S. ; 6 The Circus, Bath. 

Macxwortn-Prasrp, C. W., F.Z.S.; 51 Onslow Gardens, 8.W. 7. 

Macmiuan, Captain W. E. F.; 42 Onslow Square, S.W. 7. 

Macnaeuren, Sir Henry P. W.; 10 Hyde Park Square, W. 2. 

McNette, J. H.; Guards’ Club, Brook Street, W.1. 

Mageratu, Lieut.-Colonel H. A. F.; 43 Grosvenor Road, West- 
minster, S.W. 1. 

Manson-Baur, P. H., D.S.0., M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. F.Z.8. ; 32 
Weymouth Street, W. 1. 

Matuews, G. M., F.L.S., F.Z.8. (Committee); c/o British Museum 
(Natural History), Cromwell Road, 8.W. 7. 

May, W. Norman, M.D.; The White House, Sonning, Berks. 

Merape-Watpo, EK. G. B., F.Z.S.; Stonewall Park, Edenbridge, 
Kent. 

MeinerrzHacen, Colonel R., D.S.O., F.Z.8.; 17 Kensington Park 
Gardens, W.8. 

MernertzHacen, Mrs. R.; 17 Kensington Park Gardens, W. 8. 

Momryama, Toxuraro; 1146 Sasazka Yoyohata-mati, Tokyo, Japan. 

Munn, P. W.; Puerto Alcudia, Majorca, Balearic Isles, Spain. 

Mosserwuire, D. W.; 59 Mayford Road, Wandsworth Common, 
S.W. 12: 

Musrers, Jamus Lawrence Cuawortu ; 3 Morpeth Mansions, 8.W. 1. 


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Naumsure, Mrs. W. W.; 121 East 64th Street, New York. 

NesHam, Roserr, F.Z.S.; Utrecht House, Poynder’s Road, Clapham 
Park, S.W. 4. 

Newmay, I’. H., F.Z.8.; Verulam, Forty Lane, Wembley, Middlesex. 

Nicuots, J. B., F.Z.S.; Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, 
S.W. 1. 

OLpHaM, Cuas., F.Z.8. (Committee) ; The Bollin, Shrublands Road, 
Berkhamsted, Herts. 

Parkin, Tuomas, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.8.; Fairseat, High Wickham, 
Hastings. 

Prarson, CHARLES Epwarp, F.L.S.; Hillcrest, Lowdham, Nottingham, 

PewrosE, Franois G., M.D., F.Z.S.;-Rathkeale, 51 Surrey Road, 
Bournemouth. 

PrersHouse, Major 8.; ¢/o Lloyds Bank (Cox & King’s Branch), 
6 Pall Mall, 8.W. 1. 

Pirman, Capt. C. R. S., D.S.O., M.C., Game Warden, Entebbe, 
Uganda; and c/o Messrs. Grindlay & Co., 54 Parliament 
Street, S.W. 1. 

Prayer, W. J. P.; Wernfadog, Clydach R.S.0., Glamorganshire. 

PorHam, Hucu Leyzorne, M.A.; Houndstreet House, Pensford, 
Somerset. 

Pricn, A. E., F.Z.8.; Culverwood House, Littie Berkhamsted, 
Herts. 

Pyse-Smirn, Grorrrey Henry Ruruerrorp; 40 Cleveland Square, 
Hyde Park, W. 2. 

Rarcuirr, F. R.; 29 Connaught Square, W. 2. 

Reap, Roperr H.; 8a South Parade, Bedford Park, W. 4. 

Rickert, C. B., F.Z.S.; 27 Kendrick Road, Reading, Berks. 

Rinerose, Bernarp J.; Loseley, Kwhurst, Surrey. 


Rivikre, B. B., F.R.C.S.; White House, Poringland, near 
Norwich. 

Ropinson, H. C., C.M.Z.8.; 142 Duke’s House, St. James’s Court, 
S.W. 1. 


Roruscaitp, Lionpt Wattrer—Lord, D.Sc., F.R.S., Ph.D., F.Z.S. 
(Chairman, 1913-1918); Tring Park, Herts. 

Sapswortu, Arnotp Duer, F.Z.S.; Mulberry Cottage, 24 Elm Tree 
Road, St. John’s Wood, N.W. 8. 

Scrarer, Wittiam Lutiey, M.A., F.Z.S. (Chairman, 1918-1924) ; 
10 Sloane Court, S.W. 1. 


130 Sconn, The Rt. Hon. Mungo Davin—Lord; Scone Palace, Perth. 


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Seru-Surra, Davin, F.Z.S.; Curator’s House, Zoological Gardens, 
Regent’s Park, N.W. 8. 

Ssron, Sir Marcorm C. C., K.C.B.; 26 Upper Park Road, Haver- 
stock Hill, N.W. 3. 

Suieton, Wau., B.A., M.D.; 2 The Square, Buxton. 

StapeN, Major A. G. L., M.C.; Kingswood House, The Lee, 
Bucks. 

SwaLLey, Freperic W., F.Z.8.; The Hawthorns, 193 Clapham 
Road, 8.W. 9. 

SnoucKAERT VAN ScHausure, Baron Renz Cuartes; Hotel les 
Terrasses, Territet, Switzerland. 

Sparrow, Col. R., C.M.G., D.S.0., F.Z.8., F.R.G.S.; The Lodge, 
Colne Engaine, Earls Colne, Essex. 

Srarges, J. W. C.; Portchester, Hants. 

Srevens, Herseat; Clovelly, Beaconsfield Road, Tring, Herts. 

Sroxes, Capt. H. SrepHen; Longdon, Rugeley, Staffordshire. 

Sronrnam, Captain H. F., O.B.E., F.E.S.; The East Surrey 
Demesne, P.O. Charangani, Trans-Nzoia, Kenya Colony, 
British East Africa. 

Sruart-Menreru, W.G.; Bransfield, Godstone, Surrey. 

Sryan, F. W., F.Z.8.; Stone Street, near Sevenoaks. 

Swynnerton, C. F. Massy; Poste MRestante, Dar-es-Salaam, 
Tanganyika Territory, East Africa. 

Taxa-Tsuxasa, Prince Nosusuxe; 2 Fukuyoshicho Akasaka, 
Tokyo, Japan. 

TatBot-Ponsonsy, C. G.; 5 Crown Office Row, Temple, E.C. 4. 

Tavistock, Hastines Wititiam Sackvitte, Marquis of, F.Z.8.; 
Warblington House, Havant. 

Tuomson, A. LanpsBoroueH ; 9 Addison Gardens, W. 14. 

Tuorps, W. H.; 5 Regency Mansions, Hastings. 

Ticenurst, Craup B., M.A., M.D. (Committee); Grove House, 
Lowestoft, Suffolk. 

Ticenvrst, N. F., O.B.E., M.A., M.B., F.R.C.S., F.Z.8. ; 24 Peven- 
sey Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea. 

Tucker, B. W., B.A., F.Z.8.; 9 Marston Ferry Road, Oxford. 

Turner, Miss E. L., F.Z.S.; The Half Way Cottage, 13 Storey’s 
Way, Cambridge. 

Turtie, Lancetor J.; Rosemount, Knock, Belfast. 

Tyrwuitt-Draxr, Hues G., F.Z.8.; Cobtree Manor, Sandling, 
Maidstone. 

Van Someren, Dr. V. G. L.; c/o Med. Depart. P.O. Box 140, 
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Vernay, A.S.; 51 Berkeley Square, W. 1. 
Vevers, G. M., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., F.Z.8.; Zoological Gardens,. 
Regent’s Park, N.W. 8. 
Waitt, Herperr Wittiam; c/o Messrs. Grindlay & Co. Ltd., 
Bombay. 
160 Waxtis, H. M. Ashton Lodge, 68 Elmhurst Road, Reading. 
Ware, R.; Leafwood, Frant, Tunbridge Wells. 
Wuistiter, Huen, F.Z.S.; Coldbec House, Battle, Sussex. 
Warrtaxsr, Josepn I. 8., F.Z.S.; Malfitano, Palermo, Sicily. 
Wuirt, S. J., F.Z.S.; 17 Philpot Lane, E.C.3 
165. Wuittey, H.; Primley, Paignton, 8. Devon. 
Wuymper, Samvuet Lerten ; Oriental Club, Hanover Square, W. 1. 
Witxkinson, Jounson ; Vermont, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. 
Witirams, Victor Owen; 6 Crown Office Row, Temple, E.C. 4. 
Wittiamson, Sir W. J. F., C.M.G., F.Z.8.; c/o Lloyds Bank, 6 Pall 
Mall, S.W. 1. 
179 Wine, J.Srapen; 21 Cheyne Gardens, Chelsea Embankment, 8. W.3. 
Wirnersy, Harry F., M.B.E., F.Z.8. (Chairman) ; 326 High Hol- 
born, W.C. 1. 
Wiruerineton, G.; Sumner Plat, Hayward’s Heath. 
Woop, Dr. Cassy A., M.D.; c/o The Library of Ornithology, 
McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 
Workman, Wittiam Hveuss, F.Z.8.; Lismore, Windsor, Belfast. 
175 Worms, Cuartes pe; Milton Park, Heharn, Surrey. 
Wynnz, R. 0.; c/o British Museum (National History), Cromwell 


Road, 8S. W. 7. 
New Members for the Session... 10 
Total number of Members .... 176 


NOTICE. 

[Members are specially requested to keep the Hon. Secretary 
informed of any changes in their addresses, and Members 
residing abroad should give early notification of coming home 
on leave. | 


LIST OF AUTHORS 


AND OTHER PERSONS REFERRED TO. 


ALEXANDER, W. B. 
Account of some of the habits of Australian Bower-Birds 
(Ptilanorhynehids). ca)... «. ke epeeeeines «+. +". ors Dae ad 
ANNUAL DINNER OF Hh BOs U. kerio... oon sees 
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, PROCEEDINGS OF THE ........ 


Baker, E. C. Stuart. 


Remarks on Oriental birds, with descriptions of five new 
subspecies :— Yungipicus hardwicku brunneiceps,Sasia ochracea 
querulivox, Megalaima virens magnifica, Rhopodytes tristis 
nigristriatus, and Coryllis vernalis rubropygialis..........4+ 


Remarks on Oriental Owls, with descriptions of four new 
races: — Athene noctua ludlowt, Glaucidium cuculoides 
rufescens, G. c. fulvescens, and. Ninox scutulata isolata ...... 


Description of new subspecies of Oriental birds :— Alcedo 
meninting phillipst and Amaurornis fuscus zeylonicus........ 


Remarks on Oriental birds and descriptions of two new 
subspecies :—Polihierax insignis cinereiceps and Cerchnets 
tinnunculus objurgatus...e...seceee iy | Ee SS 


On behalf of Prof. M. Menzbier. Exhibition of plates of 
Paleonidze”: | a: (ee eee ee eee ess cc, eae 


Description of a new subspecies of Fishing-Eagle (Icthyo- 
phaga ihthyaétus plumbeiceps) from Ceylon .............. 


Proposed Gyps indicus nudiceps, nom. nov., for the Vulture, 
Gyps indicus tenuirostris Hume olim ..............+.00-- 


80-84. 


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BANNERMAN, D. A. 


Exhibition and description of a new race of Robin 
(Erithacus rubecula lavuudent) from North Tunisia 


Description of a new Tree-Creeper (Certhia brachydactyla 
raisulit) from Moroceo 


©: (0) (Gite!) es (05 6) wi a ere) 6 (6) a) 0) (0/64 © @: 6 eo) 6 a) 0.6) 8) @ ‘8 8). 


Remarks on Anthus rufulus lynest Bannerman & Bates 
Account of his recent voyage from Marseilles to Senegal. . 


Note on the Exportation of live birds from Senegal 


oeese o 


Notes on a visit to the Grenoble Museum .............. 
Note on the White-breasted Barn-Owl in the Canary Is... 
Remarks on the Eggs of Irby’s Raven ................ 


Exhibition and description of new birds obtained by 
Admiral H. Lynes in Angola:—Myrmecocichla lynesi and 
Bradypterus brachypterus benguellensis.......... ant okt a stoMeara 


Bunyapgb, P. F. 


Report on his observations on the Cuckoo for the season 
1926 we Ce) ws) 0 eee @ eevnverreeotsceo sees eaeeseeoetee eee 2 0 © e 0 & © © 8 © 


Exhibition of a drawing of the Cuckoo at a Reed- Warbler’s 
DEES +. +) «) se ete MMRMReE Ge: shel ol) wat ahe..ct 7 cel So tishd ee e¥el ol eiyeie » 


Exhibition and remarks on a clutch of egys of the Goshawk 
_ (Astur g. gentilis) ..... 


e@ere¢ ees eee Fe @ eee eoeee oe eB © OO ew woe 


Remarks on eggs of the Northern Golden Plover (Chara- 
drius a. altifrons) from Iceland and the Feroes 


Exhibition of a clutch of eggs of Grey Phalarope 
(Phalaropus fulicartus) from Spitsbergen and of the Red- 
necked Phalarope (P. lobatus) from Iceland 


eeee6 ee 2 2 © © © Oo 


Remarks on Mr. Jourdain’s criticism of his exhibition of 
the eggs of Erewnetes pusillus and Erolia minutilla 


On behalf of Mr. Scholey. Exhibition of lantern-slides of 
the Cuckoo at the nests of Pied Wagtails ................ 


On the Results of Further Experiments from Internal 


Illumination of Eggs, and remarks on their markings ...... 


Butter, A. L. 


Exhibition and description of a new species of Humming- 
Bird (Eriocnemis soderstromz) from W. Ecuador .......... 


Neteon a hybrid) Bimini Bird .-..... ..0.0.+ viee'e aahe ae gale 
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CHISLETT, R. 
Exhibition of lantern-slides ............ at eit oe 99 


DrExLacour, M. J: 


Descriptions of thirty-one néw species and subspecies 
from Annam and Laos :— 


Arborophila rufogularis laotinus, A. brunneipectus nevent, 
Tropicoperdix merlint vivida, Francohnus pintadeanus wellst, 
Sphenurus sphenurus annamensis, S. siemundi modestus, 
S. apicauda laotianus, Ketupa ceylonensis orientalis, Strix 
newarensis laotianus, Picus chlorolophus laotianus, Pitta cyanea 
willoughbyt, Lanius collurioides melanocephalus, L. c. grisei- 
capilus, Hemizxus flavala bourdeller, Xanthixus flavescens 
berlioxi, Spizizus canifrons laotianus, Dryonastes varenna, 
Garrulax gularis auratus, Pomatorhinus tickelli laotianus, 
Gampsorhynchus rufulus lucie, Drymocataphus tickelli annam- 
ensis, Turdinulus epilepidotus laotianus, Mixornis rubricapilla 
lutescens, Alcippe nipalensis major, A. n. laotianus, Crssa 
hypoleuca chauleti, Psittiparus gularis laotianus, Carpodacus 
erythrinus murati, Hypacanthis monguilloti, Afthopyga ezrat, 
and Anthreptes hypogrammica lisett@ ......... ce eee 8-22 


Proposed the name of Lanius colluroides nigricapillus for 
L. c. melanocephalus Delacour, which is preoccupied........ 70 


Notes on Dryonastes maesi from Central Tonkin ........ 22, 83 


Descriptions of two new genera and forty new species 
and subspecies collected during the 3rd Expedition to French 
Indo-China in 1926-27 :— 


Phasianus colchicus takatsukasai, Tropicoperdix charltont 
tonkinensis, Sphenurus sveboldi muriele, Megalema lagrandiert 
rothschildt, Cyanops franklint tonkinensis, Thereiceryx fato- 
strictus pallidus, Gecinulus grantia indochinensis, Blythipicus 
pyrrhotis imtermedius, Anthocichla phayret obscura, Pitta 
douglasi tonkinensis, Rhipidura albicollis cinérascens, Peri- 
crocotus brevirostris tonkinensis, Pycnonotus hainanus indo- 
chinensis, Pycnonotus sinensis meridionalis, Dryonastes perspicil- 
latus annamensis, Garrulax pectoralis robini, Garrulax moniliger 
tonkinensis, Tréchalopterum milnet indochinensis, Pomatorhinus 
ruficolas saturatus, Pomatorhinus ferruginosus orientalis, 
Pumatorhinus tackelli friesi, Jabouilleia danjour parvirostris, 
Drymocataphus pusillus, Corythocichla brevicaudata obscura, 
Corythocichla brevicaudata ruflventer, Actinodura ramsayt 


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kinneari, Pterythius enobarbus laotianus, Pterythius enobar- 
bus indochinensis, Cissopica whiteheadi xanthomelana, Dendro- 
citta formose intermedia, Dendracitta frontalis kurodai, 
Parus minor indochinensis, Parus monticolus legendrei, Psitti- 
parus ruficeps magnirostris, Psittiparus margarite, Suthora 
davidiana tonkinensis, Oriolus trail robinsoni, Arborophila 


davidi, and Picus chlorolophus harmandi ........00..000055 
Errata TO BuLueTtin No. CCCOVIII. ...... NET GOHOn Ee aes. 
Fiower, Major S.S. Elected Member of Committee ...... 
Grant, C. H. B. 
Remarks on a pair of Hirundo angolensis angolensjs and 
Larus cirrhocephalus from Lake Tanganyika .............. 


Hacuisuxka, Hon. Masavs1. 
Description of a new race of Skylark (Alauda arvensis 
donmbergt) from) Sao WeneMy 5... 50's saci coe cee cee oe ee 


Note on the Nomenclatorial Problem of Mutations, with 
description of a new mutation of the Pheasant (Phasianus 
colchicus mut. tenebrosus) .........+.. Pie he eral Nee tba aes 


Descriptions of fifteen new forms from the Oriental Region :— 
Dendrobiastes hyperythrus sumatranus, D. h, tatvanicus, 
Suya superciaris klosst, Horornis canturians taivanorum, 
Setaria albigularts leucogastra, Turdinus macrodactylus bakeri, 
Eupetes macrocercus subrufus, Diceum hematostictum 
whiteheadi, D. pygmeum palawanorum, Zosterops aureiventer 
parvus, Z. palpebrosa hartertt, Dicrurus leucogenys meridio- 
nalis, Bhringa remifer sumatrana, -Dissemurus paradiseus 
insularis, and D. p. wallacet ............ ICE Dt ie) o she coher 


Descriptions of five new forms:—Anthrepetes malacensis 
basilanicus, A. m. sanghirana, Leptocoma f. annamensis, 
Diceum cruentatum hainanum, and Excalfactoria chinensis 


CCEUIOSCERS 2 th RECT Hove inieieisle wip vss goes Des pene the 


Pointed out that four of the new races described by 
himself had already bean described ........6+- ese pecn pace 


Description of new race of Sparrow (Passer atale payne) 
REOME COUSICR. «rare idee Pe 2) aia) 5 «2a; aes sac dn tod ae! ne 


Hopxinson, Dr, EK, See Sctater, W. L. 


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JouRDAIN, Rev. F. C. R. 
Remarks on the species of Wagtails (Motacilla alba and 
WEOLEY. os eA Teich a.» os joi puiekate keke, Mealy os (ails 


Note on Palearctic examples of the Frigate-bird (Fiegata 
arel,) SNE NA Ee so) tec anes clones oe ne 
Kinnear, N. B. 


On behalf of M. J. Delacour, exhibition of some of thetypes 
of the new species and species obtained during the Franco- 
British Expedition to French Indo-China, including two 
SpeciMensionmrveca Cl0l’. ©. VLG Bee ss + e's niet yD eine 


Exhibition of birds obtained by Capt. F. Kingdom-Ward 
in N. Burma, with description of a new species of Trogon 
CUED ACC ITCT aL) Re Bert O85 84 0° 0 5 OE en 6 


Remarks on Picumnus macconnelli Chubb, with description 
of a new form of Pygmy Woodpecker (Picumnus cirrhatus 
confusus) from British Guiana ........-.. 5. essen eeeenes 


——, and Rosinson, H. C. 
Remarks on a volume of coloured drawings of Sumatran 
hinds hy Sur vStambtord (hramlesMeo rm. 2. . ee, Pie ae 
KLEINSCHMIDT, Dr. O. 
Exhibition of the rare Humming-bird (Oxypogon striibelit) 
from: Mita Volimy sC olOm DIA ie reEtte «c+. « snes Steer ohn meee 
Observations on the mutant Peacock (Pavo nigripennis) .. 


Kzoss, C. B. 
Note on the names and races of the Red Jungle-Fowl 
(GRO ITES. TCL) eee RS 5S 3) lea aa On Pieor ie eA 5 5 8 


Description of a new race of small Flycatcher (Muscicapula 
melanoleuca langbeanis) from South Annam 


—. See Rozsinson, H. C. 


Kuropa, N. 
Description of a new form of Jay (Garruus glandarius 
pallidifrons) from Hokkaido, Japan...............00: sisters 
Low, Dr. G. CARMICHAEL. 


Re-elected Hon. Sec. and Treasurer .........0..¢ : 


LoweE, Dr. P. R. 


Exhibition of an example of the Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 
(Alchimorhynchus, COnCelOAIE) VES. oc mis» Anyi sos Os SE able els 


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LowtTueEr, KE. H. N. 


Exhibition of lantern-slides of some Indian birds........ 


MartHews, G. M. 


On some changes in names :—Melanopitta bonapartena, 
Ethelornis magnirostris cobuna, Rhipidura flabellifera melande, 
ADIGE CCT ODF OMA SULGOME AMAT ca ie fees geeks odet vas 


Descriptions of two new forms of Sun-birds :— Cyrtostomus 
Ffrenatus hachisuka from Obi Island and C. f. olivaceus from 
Groodenouah lsiameaaa td scra ss seals Wits aide etillela« we weit ole 


Description of a new race of Kingfisher (Mvcralcyone 
pusila masawje trommNew Ireland, . «66... sé. ce ecises ss . 


Change of names :—Rhodophila Jerdon replaces Orevcola 
BONA ID. hcie' Sx) PA teens Vo A stot) Vere Sor af oldi ns a.4: ape Bay cope, sg wae 


Correction to ‘Systema Avium Australasianarum’...... 


MEINERTZHAGEN, Mrs. A. 
Description of a new form of Egyptian Plover (Plumanus 
CEOPUUS ONGOIEVAOMMAMEO By... its eves dee ee Sele ees 


Description of a new race of Rock-Thrush (Monticola 
rupventris sinensis) trom N.W: Folien- 0000.6... ch ses 


MEINERTZHAGEN, Col. R. 


Exhibition of a small collection of eggs from Ladak, 
including bubo bubo turcomanus and Perdix hodgsonie 
AGO *,*. . RRM TA Meats ce eolae Ne ts, Vata oe ties sa 6 os 


Description of a new race of Snow-Partridge (Lerwa lerwa 
Hao) LOM STCe mame Tee a NS UT OD. Selo es oye soe 


MenzBIER, Prof. M. See Baxsr, HE. C. Stuart. 


Momiyama, T. T. 


Description of two new birds from Bonin Island and 
Volcano Island, Japan :— Zosterops palpebrosa boninsime and 
EELOUOTIUIS "CUP MOM CUDOLOENSIS amc cg we ee tec ee edens 


Mount, H. 


(AMOUNCCINEMt Gere OL | ods css cee eee s celdelee sedan 


Owen, J. H. 


Exhibition of a cinema-film of the Sparrow-Hawk ...... 


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Rosinson, H. C. 
Note on Phodilus Less., with proposed new name Phodilus 
badius saturatus for the birds from Sikkim................ 


Exhibition and description of a new Owl (Athenoptera 
spilocephalus stresemannz) from Sumatra .............00. 


——. See Kinnear, N. B. 


, and Ktioss, C. B. 
Comments on various races of Oriental birds described in 
Bull. BLOSG:, antea, pp. 00-GQ, (eter oo sea hoe bk et Ree 


RotTHScHILD, Lord. 
Exhibition and remarks on a life-sized drawing of 
Casuartus unappendiculatus rufotinctus 2... 6.6 eee eee eee 
Exhibition of a specimen of the Western Carolina Parrot 
(Conwropsts carolmensts Gntertor yee wea... ss ok vse ee eae 
Exhibition of drawings and specimens of melanistic forms 
ofwamioustamilies : 527). paueie wines.» ~ - cis Al cee eennee 


SciaTER, W. L. 

Notes on African Larks, Flycatchers, and Waxbills, with 
descriptions of a new genus, species, and subspecies :— Ere- 
malauda, gen. nov., Mirafra sabota ansorgei, and Estralda 
BANLROMRTYS 5. vv os oe eat G6 es Soe dee 6 

Exhibition, on behalf of Dr. E. Hopkinson, of the wing and 
tail of a Pintail (Dajila acuta), shot in West Africa........ 

Description of three new African birds :—Luccanodon 
belcheri, Alethe choloensis, and Zosterops senegalensis leoninus. 

Notes on African birds, with description of a new genus 
and species of Swamp-Warbler (Calamornis fort) from 8.W. 
Wanda flee ee se a ery ++ + + Gla ee 


SECRETARY AND TREASURER. 
Be-electranvof£ . cal yeh ace PEN. n § vis ibe eee 


Setu-Smiry, D. 
Exhibition of a cinema-film of the Argus Pheasant ...... 


Smith, H. GuTHRIE. 
Account of some field-observations on certain New Zealand 


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SomEREN, Dr. V. G. L. 


Description of a new subspecies of Woodpecker (Campo- 
thera abingdont kavirondensis) from S. Kavirondo .......... 


Poe wrlnmN eT OF ACCOUNTS | cocee cc cd cc vce occ 'clavtaeets og ulec's 


STEGMANN, B. 
Description of a new subspecies of Tawny Owl (Syrnium 
meneo ooscurata) trom Valve 2.2. 6s. ethics was 


Descriptions of new races of Kastern Palearctic birds :— 
Iynx torquilla intermedia and Cyanopica cyanea tristis...... 


SusHkIn, Dr. P. P. 


Description of six new subspecies of Palearctic Game- 
birds :—Phasianus colchicus edzinensis, Tetraogallus altaicus 
orientalis, T. tebetanus tschimenensis, T. t. centralis, Perdix 
hodgsonie ocesdentahs, and P. barbata przewalskit.......... 


Proposed a new name (Lmberiza elegans ticehursti) for E. 
eer Or TCd. USN iM aS vin oe ds fe ae wical'el da dele ee ol 


Ticruurst, Dr. C. B. 
Exhibition and remarks on some Short-toed Larks (Calan- 
WRCUCROL ACI YC UCCYIG mem ys 5 yahoos oe ec ls wees aes 


Notes on Halcyon smyrnensis smyrnensis and descriptions 
of new races of White-eye :—Zosterops palpebrosa occidentis 
eZee 1G UT CHS Helo. ki os  ceise'n sd Si Odeo esto dade s 


Description of a new subspecies (Culicieapa ceylonensis 
galicnor) frora Northern India. 2.2... ne me eS 
WuisTLeER, H. 
Description of a new race of Vulture (Gyps indicus jonest) 
Promitvawal PinQupmeee es ss ce che inst edea a nets Py 


WirHersy, H. F. 


@iairman’s Anmyaleearess o.oo ce ee ec ceca de eee de 


Woon, Dr. Casry A. 


Exhibition of a water-colour picture of the Dodo (Didus 
EME LUS) «i: ot HAMMER ET ed eee a eles cg aww hue has 


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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. 


No. CCCVIII. 


Tae three-hundred-and-third Meeting of the Club was held 
at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W. 1, 
on Wednesday, October 13th, 1926. 


Chairman: H. F. WitHersy. 


Members present :—H. C. Stuart Baker; D. A. BANNER- 
Man; F. J. F. Barnineron; Miss M. G. S. Best; 
Dr. J. O. Beven ; 8. Boorman; P. F. Bunyarp; Captain 
H. L. Cocurant, R.N.; N. Cotrarr; Sir Percy Cox; 
J. CunNINGHAM ; R. H. Deanze; A. H. Evans; A. Ezra ; 
Major 8. 8. Firowsr ; The Hon. M. Hacuisuxa; Rev. J. 

- R. Harz; Dr. E. Harrert; Dr. E. Hopkinson; L. M. 
JOPLING; Rev. F. C. R. Jourpain; N. B. KINNEAR 
(Editor); J. SpepaAn Lewis; Dr. G. C. Low (Hon. Sec. 
& Treas.); Dr. P. R. Lown; N. 8S. Lucas; Admiral H. 

_Lyxes; Dr. P. H. Manson-Banr; G. M. Maruews; 
C. OtpHam; G. H. R. Pyz-Smirn; F. R. Rarcuirr ; 
C. B. Rickert; Lord Rotuscuinp; W. L. ScLAtTEr ; 
D. Seru-SmirH; W.G. Sroart-Mentetu ; C. G. Taupor- 


{ November 6th, 1926. ] a VOL, XLVII. 


Vol. xlvii.] 2 


Ponsonsy ; W. H. THorpre; Dr. C. B. Ticzuurst; L. J. 
Turtie ; H. M. Watiis ; J. SLADEN WING. 


Guests present :—B. B. Osmaston ; Dr. Ernst SCHWARZ ; 
H. Gursrie Surra ; Marquis oF Tavistock ; V. WILLIAMS. 


ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 


Tus was held at Pagani’s Restaurant, Great Portland 
Street, immediately preceding the Dinner. Mr. H. F. 
WirHersy took the Chair. The Minutes of the last 
General Meeting were read and confirmed. The Financial 
Statement, which had already been printed and circulated, 
was laid before the Meeting and was duly passed. Dr. G. 
C. Low reported that the following members had resigned 
from the Club: W. Russell Brain, E. P. Chance, H. K. 
Horsfield, G. H. Lings, S. F. Stewart, Mrs. R. H. Thomas ; 
and that the following had died: J. Davidson, H. Munt, 
M. J. Nicoll, H. K. Swann, C.J. Wilson. Mr. Frohawk 
was removed from the Club under rule I., and Mr. L. R. W. 
Loyd under rule II. 

Dr. G. C. Low was re-elected Honorary Secretary and 
Treasurer. 

Major S. S. FLower was elected a Member of the Com- 
mittee in place of Mr. H. M. Wallis, retiring through 
seniority. 

The CuarrmMan referred with deep regret, which he was 
sure the members would share, to the death of Mr. Henry 
~ Munt, which occurred on the 21st of September. 

Mr. Munt had been a very regular attendant at the 
meetings of the Club for many years, had served on the 
Committee, and frequently audited the accounts. Mr. Munt 
collected white eggs—a rather curious and unusual 
speciality. 

Mr. A. H. Evans proposed, and the Rev. J. R. Haze 
seconded, that a letter of condolence should be sent to 
Mrs. Munt. 


The Meeting then adjourned to Dinner. 


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Vol. xlvii.] | 4 


Committee, 1926-1927. 


. FF, WitHersy, Chairman (elected 1924). 

. B. Kinnear, Editor (elected 1925). 

. C. Low, Hon. Sec. § Treasurer (elected 1923). 
. B. Ticenurst (elected 1924). 

. OLDHAM (elected 1924). 

. M. Maruews (elected 1925). 

.S. Flower (elected 1926). 


NQHAGAA A 


Proceedings at the Meeting following the Dinner. 


CHAIRMAN’s ADDRESS. 
Members of the B. O. C.,— 

Before proceeding with my brief review of the chief 
ornithological activities during the last twelve months, 
I must refer with deep regret to the loss by death of the 
following members :—M. J. Nicoll (Oct. 31, 1925), C. J. 
Wilson (Nov. 12, 1925), H. Kirke Swann (April 14, 1926), 
H. Munt. (Sept. 21, 1926). 

The chief event oF the year was the Sixth International 
Ornithological Congress, which took place at Copenhagen 
from May 24th to 29th under the able presidency of our 
most learned ornithologist, Dr. Ernst Hartert. The Congress: 
was well attended, though some of our members (of whom 
I was one) were unfortunately unable to attend owing to 
matters arising out of the General Strike. A large number 
of papers were read and interesting discussions took place, 
while our Danish friends were liberal in their entertainment, 
and were able to show the members many interesting birds 
both in life and in private collections in Copenhagen, 
especially that of Mr. HE. Lebn Schidler with its unique 
series of Arctic birds. 

Mention must also be made of the celebration of the 
25th anniversary of the Dutch Ornithologists’ Union, which 
took place just before the International Congress and was 
attended by the Rev. I’. C. hk. Jourdain as delegate of the 
B. O. U. and by others of our members. 

Turning now to ornithological work in the field. The 


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expedition to French Indo-China, which I mentioned last 
year, has resulted in a large amount of interesting facts 
and material being collected, and Mons. M. J. Delacour and 
Mr, Willoughby P. Lowe are now on their way back to 
that region to continue their investigations. The col- 
lections have been divided between the British and French 
museums, and some of the results of the second expedition 
will be exhibited by Mr. N. B. Kinnear to-night. Rear- 
Admiral H. Lynes, who has been making a very exhaustive 
museum study of the genus Cisticola, is now starting with 
Mr. B. B. Osmaston to Africa with the object of studying 
those species of the genus with which he is unacquainted 
in life—first, in various parts of the Southern Hemisphere 
(including, it is hoped, Angola), and subsequently in Kenya 
Colony during the breeding-season there. Admiral Lynes 
this summer revisited the Syd Varanger, as did Dr. H. 
Blair. Mr. J.H. MeNeile and Mr. R. Chislett did oological 
and photographie work in Norwegian Lapland. The Rev. 
F. C. R. Jourdain again travelled in Algeria and South 
Tunisia. Mr. H. Whistler visited South Spain, and after- 
wards with Dr. C. B, Ticehurst studied birds in the Pyrénés 
Orientales. Major W. M. Congreve made a trip to Tran- 
sylvania and spent a short time in the Dobrogea, while 
Mr. W. HE. Glegg once again worked in the Camargue. 
Col. W. A. Payn made collections in Corsica, and Dr. Cushman 
Murphy, who was in Hurope for the Congress, also visited 
some of the less-known islands in the western Mediterranean. 
Mr. G. L. Bates has returned to the Cameroons and intends 
to make a further journey to Lake Tchad. 

Dr. Hugo Granvik has gone out to explore Mount Elgon 
forasecond time. Mr.J.P. Chapin, of the American Museum 
of Natural History,is proceeding to Ruwenzori, and intends 
subsequently to travel south to the Cape. For the Field 
Museum of Chicago an expedition, under the leadership of 
Dr. W. H. Osgood and with Mr. A. M. Bailey specializing 
on the birds, has proceeded to Abyssinia, with the Highlands 
as the special objective. Africa is drawing yet another 
American ornithologist in Mr. H. B. Conover, who is visiting 


Vol. xlvii. ] 6 


Kenya. Herr Paul Spatz has made an- expedition to the 
Rio de Oro, the results of which have been described by 
Dr. E. Stresemann. 

Mr. G. K. Cherrie has made a large collection of birds in 
the Pamirs for the Field Museum. Mr. A. Hichhorn was 
again starting to collect for the Tring Museum in Nortb- 
eastern New Guinea, but has, I regret to hear, been struck 
down by paralysis. South America is receiving continued 
attention, and in the Pacific Mr. R. H. Beck’s researches 
are still proceeding. 

Of ornithological works mentioned in my last address 
as being in course of publication, Mr. J. C. Phillips’s fine 
work, ‘The Natural History of the Ducks,’ is the only one 
which has been completed. While Mr. Phillips bas thus 
dealt with the Ducks of the world, Mr. A. C. Bent, by 
issuing another volume of ‘The Life-histories of North 
American Birds,’ has completed his account of the Ducks 
of that region. There are still two parts of ‘The Birds of 
Australia’ to be published before Mr. G. M. Mathews 
finishes the great task which has occupied. him since 1910. 
Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, having published the third volume 
of the “ Birds”? in ‘The Fauna of India,’ has now com- 
pleted his account of the large number of Passerine forms 
found in that region. Mr. J. D. D. La Touche has brought 
out two more parts of his ‘ Handbook of the Birds of 
Eastern China’ and Dr. W. HE. Collinge two more parts of 
his ‘ Food of some British Wild Birds,’ while Mr. A. Thor- 
burn has added another volume to the octavo edition of his 
‘British Birds.’ Finally, Dr. C. EH. Hellmayr has added a 
part to the ‘Catalogue of Birds of the Americas’ and 
Dr, E. D. van Oort has completed Vol. II. of his important 
work, ‘ De Vogels van Nederland.’ 

All the new works issued during the year have been 
single volumes, and of these several which I shall mention 
are of considerable ornithological importance. Dr. Jonathan 
Dwight has published as a Bulletin of the American Museum 
his valuable work on ‘The Gulls (Laride) of the World,’ 
the important feature of which lies in the comparative 


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descriptions and figures not only of the adults but also of the 
successive plumages of the young. Mr. G. Heilmann has 
given us in English in ‘The Origin of Birds’ an excellently 
clear account of his views on this subject, which have attracted 
much attention. Sir Frederick J. Jackson’s ‘ Notes on the 
Game-Birds of Kenya and Uganda,’ which includes not 
only the true game-birds but also Sandgrouse, Pigeon, Snipe, 
Bustards, Geese, and Ducks, will be welcomed not only by 
ornithologists but by many sportsmen and others who visit 
or live in Hast Africa. Dr. N. t\uroda has brought out a 
fine ‘ Monograph of the Pheasants of Japan, including Korea 
and Formosa.’. Dr. A. Landsborough Thomson, in ‘ Problems 
of Bird Migration,’ has shown in an admirably clear manner 
the present state of our knowledge in this difficult but fasci- 
nating subject. Mr. Collingwood Ingram’s ‘ Birds of the 
‘Riviera’ and the ‘ List of Birds of British Columbia’ by 
Major Allan Brooks and Mr. H.S. Walter are two useful 
faunal works which must be mentioned, while Mr. E. M. 
Nicholson, in his well-written ‘ Birds in England,’ has given 
us much food for thought, and doubtless also for criticism 
and discussion, concerning the relations between birds and 
Man. Volume I. of a useful handbook on keeping birds 
in captivity has been published under the auspices of the 
- Avicultural Society and La Société Nationale d’Acclima- 
tation, in English as ‘ Aviculture’ and in French as 
‘Les Oiseaux.’ Another book of special interest to 
aviculturalists is Dr. Emilius Hopkinson’s ‘Records of Birds 
bred in Captivity.’ | 

In the space of this brief survey it is possible to mention 
only separate works, and therefore I can merely remark 
generally that the numerous papers which have appeared 
during the year in ornithological journals and elsewhere 
have for the most part reached a high standard of excelience, 
and much valuable matter has been published in this form. 

In conclusion, I must once more express my indebtedness 
to those friends who have kindly given me assistance in 
compiling this review. 


Vol. xlvii.] 8 
Mr. N. B. Kinnear, on behalf of M.J. Delacour, exhibited 


some of the types of the new species and subspecies dis- 
covered during the Franco-British Expedition to French 
Indo-China as well as two examples of Pitta elliottt from the 
same source. 


Descriptions of the following thirty-one new species 
and subspecies from Annam and Laos were sent by 
M. J. Delacour :— 


Arborophila rufogularis laotinus, subsp. nov. 


Differs from A. r. teckelli (Hume), which it most resembles, 
in the richer hues and more distinct markings. Those of the 
wings are larger and darker and on the sides of the body 
they are brighter chestnut; the black spots on the hind- 
neck form a more distinct collar, while those on the sides 
are more numerous and the grey of the breast is darker and 
of a bluer slate-colour. 

Iris brown ; bill black ; legs and feet crimson. 

Measurements :— 6. Wing 138 to 150 mm.; tail 60 to 
65 ; tarsus 30 to 35: culmen 17 to 18. 

9. Wing 136 to 146 mm.; tail 59 to 6235 tarsus 30 to 
34; culmen 16 to 17. | 

Types in the French Museum. ¢ 2. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 5.1.26 and, 25. xii.25. Collected by J. Delacour, 
Nos. 1577 and 1286. 

Material examined. 988,622. Dec. 24, 1925, to 
dan. 5, 1926. 


Arborophila brunneipectus neveni, subsp. nov. 


From other forms this race is distinguished by the more 
vivid general colour and the larger, brighter, and better- 
defined markings on the back and flanks. 

Iris brown; bill black ; legs and feet bright pink. 

Measurements :— 6. Wing 185 to 159 mm.; tail 65 to 
72; tarsus 35 to 38 ; culmen 18 to 20. 

?. Wing 140 to 152 mm.; tail 63 to 68; tarsus 35 to 
37 ; culmen 18 to 20. ; 


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Types in the French Museum. ¢ ?. Xieng-Khouang 
(Liaos), 25 and 28. xii.1925. Collected by J. Delacour, ~ 
Nos. 1287 and 1370. 

Material examined. 13 6 6, 42 2. Dec. 16, 1925, to 
pee. £5, 1926. 

(Named in honour of M. A. Neven, Director of the 
Zoological and Botanical Gardens at Saigon.) 


Tropicoperdix merlini vivida, subsp. nov. 

Resembles 7. m. merlint Delacour & Jabouille, from 
Quangtu, in the bright yellow legs and feet, but differs in 
the much larger size, brighter and more distinct markings, 
and much more olivaceous general colour. 

Tris brown ; bill yellowish-horn with red base; legs and 
feet bright yellow. | 

Measurements :—¢@. Wing 161 mm. ; tail 86 ; tarsus 35 ; 
culmen 18. | 

Type in the French Museum. 46. Col des Nuages 
(Annam), Feb. 10,1926. Collected by J: Delacour, No. 1899. 


Francolinus pintadeanus wellsi, subsp. nov. \ 


Differs from /. p. pintadeanus (Scop.) in its larger size, 
brighter colours, more distinct markings, its black forehead, 
and especially the broader stripes from the gape .to the 
sides of the neck. One Yunnanese specimen in the British 
Museum comes very near it, but lacks the broad black facial 
stripes. 

Iris brown ; bill black ; legs and feet yellow. 

Measurements :— §. Wing 155mm. ; tail 80 ; tarsus 40 ; 
culmen 25. 

Type in the British Museum. 6. Kontoum (Annam), 
Mar. 6, 1926. Collected by J. Delacour, No. 2.185. Brit. 
Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.1. 


(Named in honour of Mr. T. Wells, of the British Museum 
Natural History.) 


Sphenurus sphenurus annamensis, subsp. noy. 


Near S. s. robinson (Ogilvie-Grant), from Gunong Tahan 
(Malay States), but differs in having the back less tinged 


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with grey, the throat of a lighter yellowish-green, and the 
under tail-coverts entirely honey-yellow. 

Iris, inner ring light blue, outer ring pinkish-yellow ; 
bill blue, tip grey ; legs and feet crimson. 

Measurements :— 8. Wing 159 to 171 mm.; tail 117 to 
128; tarsus 17 to 19; culmen 17 to 19. 

?. Wing 150 to 157 mm. ; tail 108 to 118; tarsus 17 to 
18; culmen 16. 

Types in the British Museum. ¢ 2. Kontoum and Hué 
(Annam), 1. ii. 26 and 17. vii. 25. Collected by J. Delacour, 
Nos. 2042 and 276. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.2 & 3. 

Material examined. 5f § and 22? 9. Kontoum, Dakto, — 
and Hue (Annam), June 17, 1925, to March 19, 1926. 


Sphenurus siemundi modestus, subsp. nov. 

Differs from S. s. stemundi Rob., from Semango Pass 
(Malay States), in the absence of the orange patches on the 
sides of the neck. 

Iris, inner ring light blue, outer ring yellow ; bill, skin 
round the eye, and lores blue; tip of bill grey ; legs and 
feet dark vermilion. 

Measurements :— 6. Wing 160 mm.; tail 164 to 175; 
tarsus 16 to 17; culmen 19. 

2. Wing 152 to 158 mm.; tail 130 to 169 ; tarsus 16 to 
17 ; culmen 17 to 18. 

Types in the British Museum. ¢ ¢. Hue (Annam), 
18 & 27. vi. 25. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 192 and 
234, Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.4 & 5. 

Material examined. 2 6 Gand 42 2. Hue June 22 to 
July 17, 1925. 


Sphenurus apicauda laotianus, subsp. nov. 

Near S. a. apicauda (Blyth), but decidedly paler ; back 
more mealy-green, throat yellower, and the orange wash 
on the breast of the male paler. 

Iris, inner ring light blue ; outer ring pinkish-yellow ; 
bill, skin round the eyes and lores blue ; tip of bill grey ; 


legs and feet crimson. 


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Measurements :— ¢. Wing 162 to 170 mm.; tail 175 
10 190; tarsus 18 to 20; culmen 21. 

2. Wing 161 to 162 mm.; tail 182 to 187; tarsus 18 to 
20; culmen 18 to 19. 

Types in the French Museum. ¢ 2. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 22 & 19.xii.25. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 
1238 and 1146. | 

Material examined. 33 § and 22 9. Xieng-Khouang, 
Wee. 19 to 25, 1925. 


Ketupa ceylonensis orientalis, subsp. nov. 


Specimens from Annam and Laos differ in being darker: 
above, with larger and blacker markings, and the ground- 
colour of the underparts more buff and not so yellow. 

Iris yellow; bill greenish-horn ; culmen blackish ; legs 
and feet grey. 

Measurements :— 2. Wing 395 to 400 mm.; tail 205 to 
210; tarsus 70; culmen 46 to 47. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Dakto (Annam), 
14. iii. 26. Collected by J. Delacour, No. 2352. Brit. Mus. 
Reg. 1926.9.8.6. 

Material examined. 292 9. Dakto and Xieng-Khouang, 
Jan. Ist to March 14th, 1926. °* 

Obs. Specimens previously collected in Annam belong 
to the present race. 


Strix newarensis laotianus, subsp. nov. ! 


Differs from S. n. newarensis (Hodgs.) in the darker 
colour of the upperside, especially the head, and the rather 
more buff tint of the underparts. The facial dise is uniform 
reddish-buff. 

Iris yellow ; bill grey, legs and feet entirely feathered ; 
greenish-white underneath. 

Measurements :—Wing 377 mm.; tail 254; tarsus 56 ; 
culmen 39. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Xieng-Khouang (Laos), 
Dec. 20, 1925. Collected by J. Delacour, No. 1160. Brit. 
Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.7. 


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Picus chlorolophus laotianus, subsp. nov. 


This race is near P. c. rodgersi (Hartert & Butler), but 
brighter green above; it differs from the other races in 
having the upper parts of a darker and more olive-green 
colour above, and the crest lemon-yellow. 

Iris red ; bill dark grey, with yellow base; legs and feet 
grey. 

Measurements :— g@. Wing 134 to 137 mm.; tail 104 to 
117; tarsus 18; culmen 25 to 26. 

?. Wing 137 mm. ;. tail 110; tarsus 15 to 19 ; calmen 
Ee UO Leos 

Types in the British Museum. 6 9. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 18. xii. 25 and 5.1.26. Collected by J. Delacour, 
Nos. 1103 and 1568. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.8 & 9. 

Material examined. 3 8G, 299. Xieng - Khouang, 
Dec. 12, 1925, to Jan. 5,°1926. 


_ Pitta cyanea willoughbyi, subsp. nov. 

The Pitta found in Laos agrees with the male in the 
British Museum obtained by C. B. Kloss in South Annam, 
which, as pointed out by Stuart-Baker, differs widely from 
typical P. ¢. cyanea. Both sexes are much brighter in 
colour. In the male the red of the crown is bright scarlet 
and the blue of the upper parts rich ultramarine, while the 
breast is strongly tinged with red, instead of washed with 
yellow. The females are almost as bright as the males of 
P. c. cyanea, and have no red tinge on the breast. 

Iris brown ; bill black; legs and feet horny-flesh colour. 

Measurements :— 6. Wing 115 mm. ; tail 60 ; tarsus 40 ; 
culmen 23. 

9. Wing 114 mm.; tail 54 to 58; tarsus 38 to 39; 
culmen 22 to 23. , 3 

Types in the French Museum. ¢ ¢. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 13.1. 26 and 28. xii.25. Collected by J. Delacour, ' 
Nos. 1750 and 1358. 

Material examined. 16,292 2. Dec. 28, 1925, to Jan. 13, 
1926. 

(Named in honour of our fellow-collector, Mr. Willoughby 
P. Lowe.) 


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Lanius collurioides melanocephalus, subsp. nov. 


Differs from specimens from Burma, Siam, and Central 
Annam in the sooty-black colour of the head and hind-neck, 
which fades to dark grey on the lower part of the neck, 
and the richer chestnut of the mantle. 7 

Iris brown ; bill black, greyish at the base ; legs and feet 
black. 

Measurements :—¢. Wing 87 to 89 mm.; tail 94 to 105 ; 
tarsus 21 to 23; culmen 12 to 13. 

9% Wing 85 mm.; tail 100; tarsus 22 ; culmen 12. 

Types in the British Museum. 6 ¢. Dalat et Phantiet 
(South Annam), 5 & 13.x.25. Collected by J. Delacour, 
Nos. 589 and 533. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.10 & 11. 

Material examined. 38 g and1?. Phantiet and Dalat, 
Oct. 5 to.13,:1925, : 


Lanius collurioides griseicapillus, subsp. nov. 


Differs from other races in having the head and hind-neck 
of a pale grey and the mantle of a lighter chestnut. The 
female is darker than the male. i 
_ Iris brown; bill black, base greyish; legs and feet 

black. 

Measurements :— . Wing 90 mm.; tai! 100; tarsus 22 ; 
culmen 13. 

9. Wing 92 mm.; tail 102; tarsus 23; culmen 12. 

Types in the British Museum. ¢ 9. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 20 & 21. xii. 25. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 

1209 and 1179. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.12 & 13. 


Hemixus flavala bourdellei, subsp. nov. 

Ditters widely from other races, including £1. f. davisoni 
found in Central Annam, in the pure black colour of the 
crown, crest, lores, and cheeks: ‘The upper parts are of a 
slightly olive-grey, with no brown tinge. The rump, under 
wing-coverts, vent, and under tail-coverts are tinged with 
yellow and the underparts are whiter. It is altogether a 
much brighter bird. 

Iris reddish-brown ; bill, legs, and feet black. 


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Measurements :— 3. Wing 98 to 105 mm.; tail 92 to 
100; tarsus 12 ; culmen 15 to 17. 

9. Wing 96 to 101 mm.; tail 92 to 94; tarsus 12 to 14; 
culmen 15 to 16. 

Types in the French Museum. ¢& 2. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 22. xii. 25 and 10.i1.26. Collected by J. Delacour, 
Nos. 1237 and 1412. 

Material examined. 48 6, 522. Dec. 18, 1925, to 
gam. 0. L926. . 

(Named in honour of Dr. A. Bourdelle, Professor of 
Mammalogy and Ornithology in the Muséum d’Histoire 
Naturelle.) } 


Xanthixus flavescens berliozi, subsp. nov. 


Differs from other forms, including X. f. vividus Baker, 
in being much more brightly coloured. The yellow tinge 
on the underparts is golden, the whole abdomen is yellow 
and the throat more spotted with grey. 

Iris brown; bill, legs, and feet black. | 

Measurements :—f. Wing 90 to 91 mm.; tail 106 to 
109 ; tarsus 14 to 16; culmen 11 to 13. 

Types in the French Museum. ¢ 2. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 26 & 28.x.25. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 
1306 and 1353. | 

Material veramined, 3 ¢ i@yi2i2) 9.0 Dee. BAS to We; 
1925. 

(Named in honour of M. J. Berlioz, Assistant of 
Mammalogy and Ornithology in the Muséum d’Histoire 
Naturelle.) 


Spizixus canifrons laotianus, subsp. nov. » 


Nearer to S. c. ingrami La Touche, from Milati (Yunnan), 
but differs from all other races in having a blackish-grey 
throat, surrounded by light grey, which separates it clearly 
from the green breast. 

Iris brown; bill ivory-white; legs and feet pinkish- 
brown. 


“18 [Vol. xlvii. 


Measurements :— g. Wing 98 mm.; tail 98 ; tarsus 16 ; 
culmen 12. 

9. Wing 92 to 93 mm.; tail 92 to 97; tarsus 15 to 17; 
culmen 11 to 12. | 

Types in the British Museum. 6 2. Noug-Het (Laos), 
13 & 14. xii. 25. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 1020 and 
1040. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.15 & 16. 

Material examined. 1 8, 2 2? 2. Noug-Het and Xieng- 
Khouang (Laos), Dec. 13 to 27, 1925. 


Dryonastes varennel, sp. nov. 

Resembles D. castanotis Ogilvie-Grant, from Hainan, but 
differs in its superior size, darker blackish-brown throat, 
paler grey forehead, more olive-grey back and wings, and 
especially in the chestnut patch on the ear-coverts being 
smaller and surrounded above and behind by a white line. 

Iris reddish-brown ; bill, legs, and feet black. 

Measurements:— 8. Wing 125 to 134 mm.; tail 130 to 
. 1389; tarsus 43 to 46; culmen 21 to 24. 

9. Wing 128 to 135 mm.; tail 128 to 135; tarsus 42 to 
46; culmen 21 to 23. 

Sex ? Wing 137 mm.; tail 150; tarsus 45; culmen 23. 

Types in the French Museum. ¢ ?. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 8.1.26 and 25.xii. 25. Collected by J. Delacour, 
Nos. 1648 and 1284. 

Material examined. 738 8, 922, and 1 not sexed. 
Dec. 25, 1925, to Jan. 8, 1926. 

: (Named in honour of H.E. M. A. Varenne, Goverdan! 
General of Indo-China.) 


Garrulax gularis auratus, subsp. nov. 


Resembles G. g. gularis McClell., from Upper Burma, but 
has the whole plumage more tinged with yellow. The head 
and neck are olive-grey; the upper parts of a yellower 
chestnut ; underparts of a much lighter yellow, the flanks 
being olive-green; and the abdomen, vent, and under tail- 
coverts light chestnut with a yellow tinge. 

Iris red or orange ; bill black or black with a yellowish 
base ; legs and feet yellow. 


Vol. xlvii.] 16 


Measurements :—¢. Wing 102 mm.; tail 110-; tarsus 
36; culmen 25. 

?. Wing 100 to 101 mm.; tail 106 ; tarsus 36 ; culmen 
25 to 26. . 

Types in the French Museum. ¢ 9. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 8.1.26. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 1646 and 
1642. 

Material examined. 1 g and 2 ¢ 9. Jan. 3 to 8, 1926. 

Pomatorhinus tickelli laotianus, subsp. nov. J | 

Near to P. t. brevirostris Rob. & Kloss, from Cochin- 
China, but has a longer bill, cheeks of a greyer brown, 
upper parts more olive and sides of the breast of a purer grey, 
with more distinct white spots. 

Iris brown ; bill, legs, and feet horny-grey. 

Measurements :— §. Wing 113 to 114 mm.; tail 115 to 
117 ; tarsus 37 to 38; culmen 37 to 43. 

?. Wing 103 to 110 mm, ; tail 106 to 116; tarsus 35 to 
36; culmen 35 to 37. | 

Types in the British Museum. ¢ ?. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 5 & 3.1.26. Collected by J. Delacour, Nous. 1572 
and 1508. 

Material examined. 266,42 ?. Dee. 22, 1925, to 
Jan. 11,1926. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.17 & 18. 


Gampsorhynchus rufulus lucia, subsp. nov. 

Differs from other subspecies in having the hind part of 
the crown and neck reddish-brown instead of white, in the 
adult stage. Fore part of the crown, face, and throat white, 
the latter surrounded by a black collar, which reaches the 
ear-coverts and is followed on the breast by a reddish-yellow 
band. Rectrices tipped with greyish-buff. | 

Obs. Specimens from Tonkin belong to the present form. 

Tris yellow ; bill horny-white with brown culmen ; legs 
and feet pinkish-grey. 

Meusurements :—g. Wing 94 to 97 mm.; tail 120 to 
125; tarsus 23 to 25 ; culmen 16. 

?. Wing 98 to 102 mm.; tail 117 to 130; tarsus 25 to 
28; culmen 16 to 17. 


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Types in the French Museum. ¢ 9°. Xieng-Khouang . 
(Laos), 28. xii. 25 and 11.1. 26. Collected by J. Delacour, 
Wos. 1351, 1719. 

— Material examined. 388,529. Dee. 27, 1925, to 
Jan. 10, 1926. 
(Named in honour of Mme A. Varenne.) 


Drymocataphus tickelli annamensis, subsp. nov. 

Nearer D. t. olivaceus Kinnear, from Tonkin and Laos, 
but is of a less olive-brown above and of a redder-buff below, 
with no white on the abdomen. 

Tris reddish-brown ; bill brown above, horny-flesh below ; 
legs and feet horny-flesh. 

Measurements :— 6. Wing 64 mm.; tail 55 ; tarsus 27; 
~ culmen 13. 3 

2. Wing 58 mm.; tail 49 ; tarsus 25; culmen 13. 

Sex? Wing 62 to 63 mm.; tail 54 to 56; tarsus 25 to 
27; culmen 11 to 14. 

Types in the British Museum. ¢ 2. Col des Nuages 
(Annam), 29 & 30. xi.25. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 
906,907. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.19 & 20. 

Material examined. 18,192, 2?. Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 

1925, 


. Turdinulus epilepidotus laotianus, subsp. nov. 


- Differs from T. e. amye Kinnear, from Tonkin, in being 
darker brown and more tinged with buff. From 7. e. clarus 
Rob. & Kloss, from South Annam, it is distinguished by its 
larger size, less reddish colour, and less distinct streaks on the 
under surface ; and from T. e. bakert Harington, from Shan 
States, in being more olive-brown, without any reddish tinge. 
Throat and supercilium white. 

Iris light brown ; bill black above, grey below ; legs and 
feet horny-brown. 
Measurements :— 3. Wing 54 mm. ; tail 29; tarsus 20 ; 
culmen 13. 
Sex ? Wing 55 mm. ; tail 30 ; tarsus 23 ; culmen 15. 
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Type in the British Museum. g. Xieng-Khouang 
(Laos), 8.1.26. Collected by J. Delacour, No. 1651. Brit. 
Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.21. 

Material examined. 1 ,1?. Jan. 8 to 11, 1926. 


:Mixornis rubricapilla lutescens, subsp. nov. 


Differs from all other races by its more general yellowish 
colour, olive-yellow back, light rufous wings and tail, and 
light chestnut crown. 

Iris brown ; bill horny-brown; legs and feet yellowish- . 
_ brown. 

Measurements :— 3. Wing 55 mm.; tail 52; tarsus 15 ; 
culmen 13. 

Sex? Wing 54 mm; tail 51; tarsus 15 ; culmen 13. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Bao-Ha (Tonkin), 
22. viii. 23. Collected by H. Stevens, No. 3. 

Material examined. 1 8, 1?. Bao-Ha and Muong-Xen 
(Annam), Jan. 17,1924. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1924.12.21.1. 


’ Alcippe nipalensis major, subsp. nov. 


Near to A. n. peracensis Sharpe, from Malay, but differs 
in having a faint whitish-grey ring round the eye, much 
lighter ochraceous-brown upper parts, and a well-defined 
black supercilium reaching the shoulder. The chin and 
throat are white, tinged with grey, and the breast and flanks 
buff, with the abdomen white. 

Tris light brownish-grey ; bill grey ; legs and feet pinkish- 
horny. . 

Measurements :— 3. Wing 66 to 67 mm.; tail 66; 
tarsus 19; culmen 10. 

2. Wing 63-to67 mm. ; tail 61 ; tarsus 18; culmen 10. 

Types in the British Museum. ¢ 2. Col des Nuages 
(Annam), 2.ii.26 and 26.xi. 25. Collected by J. Delacour, 
Nos. 1803 and 906. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.22 & 23. 

Material examined. 238, 622. Col des Nuages, 
Laolao, and Khesanh (Quangtri), Bana, Feb. 21, 1924, to 
Feb. 2, 1926. 


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« Alcippe nipalensis lactianus, subsp. nov. 

Differs from the other forms in having the upper parts 
more olive, and the grey of the head and neck extending to © 
the upper back. There is a dark grey supercilium ; a white 
ring round the eye; and the underparts olive-buff, tinged 
with grey on the throat and sides of the body. 

Iris grey (brown in young specimens) ; bill grey ; culmen 
darker ; legs and feet grey to yellowish-grey. 

Measurements :— g. Wing 62 to 64 mm. ; tail 62 to 65; 
- tarsus 17 to 19; culmen 8 to 10. 

?. Wing 60 to 62 mm. ; tail 62 to 65 ; tarsus 17 to 19; 


~ culmen 9 to 10. 


Types in the British Museum. ¢ ?. Xieng-Khouang 
/ (Laos), 20. xii. 25, 8.1.26. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 
1346, 1642. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.24 & 25. 

' Material examined. 78 6, 59 9. Dec. 20, 1925, to 
Jan. 8, 1926. 


Cissa hypoleuca chauleti, subsp. nov. 


Resembles C. hypoleuca Salvadori & Giglioli, from Cochin 
China, but has the whole plumage tinged with bright yellow. 
Underparts vivid chrome-yellow ; upper parts yellowisb- 
green, and the tail ochraceous-green, hazel at the tip. 
Tris brownish-red ; bill, feet, and legs bright red. 

Measurements :— 92. Wing 147 mm.; tail 158; tarsus 
45; culmen 37. 

Type in the French Museum. ¢. Thua-Lua (Annam), 
Dec. 10, 1925. Collected by J. Delacour, No. 1777. 

(Named in honour of M. Chaulet, who procured us the 
specimen.) 


Psittiparus gularis laotianus, subsp. nov. 

Differs from the other races in having the back and mantle 
of a much lighter and less reddish-brown. Female slightly 
lighter than male. 

Iris brown ; bill orange ; legs and feet greenish-horny. 

Measurements :— g. Wing 89 to 96 mm.; tail 86 to 90; 


tarsus 21 to 24; culmen 12 to 14. 
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Vol. xlvii. | 20 


9. Wing 85 to 90 mm. ; tail 83 to 86 ; tarsus 20 to 23 ; 
culmen 11 to 12. 

Types in the French Museum. ¢ ?. Xiang-Khouang 
(Laos), 10.i1.26. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 1685 and 
1693. | 

Material examined. 83 6,49 2. Dec. 25, 1925, to 
Jan. 10, 1926. 


Carpodacus erythrinus murati, subsp. nov. 

Nearest to C. e. roseatus (Hodgs.), but. the male of a 
much paler and more carmine-pink. The crown, throat, 
and breast hardly any lighter than the remainder of the 
plumage. The female is of a lighter and more fulvous- 
brown. 

Iris brown ; bill horny-grey, culmen darker ; feet and legs 
horny-brown. 

Measurements :— 3. Wing 82 to 85 mm.; tail 64 to 66; 
tarsus 18 to 19 ; culmen 18 to 19. 

?. Wing 83 mm.; tail 63; tarsus 19 ; culmen 11. 

Types in the French Museum. ¢ ?. Noug-Het (laos), 
14 & 15. xii. 25. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 1030, 1052. 

Material examined. 26 8,12. Noug-Het and Xieng- 
Khouang, Dec. 14, 1925, to Jan. 11, 1926. 

(Named in honour of H.H. Prince Paul Murat.) 


Hypacanthis monguilloti, sp. nov. 

Resembles H. ambiguus Oust., from Yunnan, Szechuan, 
and the Shan States, but differs widely in having the upper 
parts black instead of olive-green. The male has the crown 
and sides of the head, cheeks, nape, hind-neck, back, and 
scapulars black ; the chin, throat, and upper breast golden- 
yellow, with a faint black border on some feathers ; rump 
yellow, slightly streaked with black; lesser wing-coverts 
black, spotted with yellow; greater wing-coverts black. 
The primaries black with yellow bases, The under wing- 
coverts yellow, streaked with grey; upper tail-coverts black, 
and under tail-coverts yellow. The two middle pairs of 


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tail-feathers entirely black ; remainder of tail black, -with 
the base and margin of the outer feathers yellow. 

The female has the back streaked with greenish-yellow, © 
the throat and breast squamated with black, the rump mixed 
with green and grey, and the underparts tinged with grey 
and greenish-yellow. 

Iris greyish-brown ; bill horny-flesh, pinkish at the tip 
(with a dark culmen in females) ; legs and feet horny- 
flesh. 

Measurements :— 3. Wing 78 mm. ; tail 54; tarsus 13 ; 
culmen 10°5. | 

2. Wing 72 to 76 mm. ; tail 50 to 51; tarsus 12 to 13; 
culmen 10 to 10°5. 

Types in the French Museum. ¢ ?. Dalat (Annam), 
11. x. 25. Collected by J. Delacour, Nos. 575, 573. 

Material examined. 1 6,2 9 2. Oct. 11 to 13, 1925. 

(Named in honour of M. M. Monguillot, General Secretary 
of Indo-China.) 

Aithopyga ezrai, sp. nov. 

This species differs strikingly from all other members of 
the genus in having no yellow on the lower back, otherwise 
near A. nipalensis nipalensis (Hodgs.), but differs, however, 
in the size of the red marks on the sides of the neck and 
other peculiarities. 

The male has the crown, throat, nape, hind- and fore-neck 
and upper back metallic green, glossed with purple, with a 
large patch of brick-red slightly tinged with yellow on the 
sides of the neck. The cheeks and lores are sooty-black ; 
middle of the back and wings olive-green ; breast, abdomen, 
and under tail-coverts uniform golden-yellow ; rump, upper 
tail-coverts, and middle rectrices metallic green, glossed with 
purple ; other rectrices black, and the under wing-coverts 
yellowish-white. 

Iris brown ; bill, legs, and feet black. 

Measurements :— g. Wing 52 mm.; tail 71; tarsus 14 ; 
culmen 17. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Dakto (Annam), 


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Mar. 17, 1926. Collected by J. Delacour, No. 2390. Brit. 
Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.26. 

(Named in honour of Mr. A. Ezra, President of the Avi- 
cultural Society, Vice-President of the Zool. Soc. and the 
DB. O. U..) 


Anthreptes hypogrammica lisette2, subsp. nov. 

Differs from A. hypogrammica hypogrammica 8. Muller in 
having the under tail-coverts of a brighter yellow, the 
eround-colour of the breast and abdomen of a paler yellow, 
and no white showing through the metallic-blue feathers of 
the rump. 

Iris brown ; bill black, gape yellow ; legs horny-yellow. 

Measurements :— fg. Wing 63 to 67 mm. ; tail 50 to 53 ; 
tarsus 14 to 15; culmen 21 to 22. 

?. Wing 61 mm. ; tail 47 ; tarsus 13; culmen 21. 

Types in the British Museum. ¢ 2. Col des Nuages 
(Annam), 4. xii. 25 and 29. xi. 25. Collected by J. Delacour, 
Nos. 964, 921. Brit. Mus. Reg. 1926.9.8.27 & 28. 

Material examined. 438g, 19. Col des Nuages and 
Muong-Xen, Nov. 29, 1925, to Feb. 23, 1926. 

(Named in honour of Mme P. Pasquier.) 


M.J. DEtacour also sent the following communication on 


DRYONASTES MAESI Oustalet. 


During my visit to Washington in May 1926, Mr. J. H. 
Riley showed me at the U.S. National Museum many 
interesting birds from Eastern Asia, and, among them, speci- 
mens of a Dryonastes from Mount Omei, Central Szechuan 
(China), which he had described as a new species, 
Dryonastes grahami, in the ‘ Proceedings of the Biological 
Society of Washington,’ vol. xxxv. p. 59 (March 1922). 
We both had a‘suspicion that the bird might be identical 
with Dryonastes maesi described by Oustalet in the ‘ Bulletin 
de la Société Zoologique de France,’ 1890, vol. xv. p. 155. 

I brought back one specimen with me, and have recently 
compared it with the type-specimen of J). maesi, as well as 


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with many other specimens in the Paris Museum. There is 
no doubt whatsoever that they all are the same and that 
Dryonastes maest Oustalet must stand as their name. What 
misled Mr. Riley is that Oustalet gives “ Tonkin” as the 
locality of the type, which was presented to the Paris 
Museum by my late relative, M. A. Maés, who owned a 
private collection of bird-skins from all parts of the world. 

The species was described from a single specimen included 
in a small collection that M. Maés had recently purchased as 
coming from Tonkin, but, of course, as was sometimes the 
case at that time, there was no certainty about the locality. 
The five other species included in the collection were all 
common species, but not typically Tonkinese. 

Later on, in 1896, 1898, and 1911, other specimens of 
D. maesi were sent to the Paris Museum by different 
missionaries from the neighbourhood of Ta-tien- Lu 
(Szetchuan) *. 

As no J. maesi has since been found in Tonkin, it is safe 
to assume that Oustalet’s locality is a mistake, and that this 
bird inhabits Szechuan (China), Ta-tien-Lu being the first 
certain locality where it has been collected. 


The Hon. Masavust Hacnisuxa sent the following 
description of a new race of the Sky-Lark, Alauda arvensis, 
from Saghalien :— 

Alauda arvensis lonnbergi, subsp. nov. 

This race is nearest in size to A. a. pekinensis, and is 
intermediate between that form and A. a. japonica. 

The general colour of the upper surface is darker and 
more strongly marked than in 4A. a. pekinensis, while the 
underparts are also more deeply coloured, especially on 


breast and throat. 

Average length of the wing 112 mm., and tail 70°7 mm., 
in nine specimens examined. | 

* Oustalet, Bulletin du Muséum d’Hist. Nat. 1898, p. 255; Nouv. 
Arch. du Muséum d’Hist. Nat. 4° Série, vol. ii. 1901, p. 280, vol. v. 
1903, p. 87. 


Vol. xlvii.] 24 


Type in the Royal Natural History Museum of Stockholm, 
Chepisani Saghalien, 1.x. 1906. Wing 112 mm., tail 71 mm. 

Norr.—The measurements of the type of A. a. pekinensis 
in the British Museum are wing 117 mm., tail 78 mm., and 
in colour it is paler than in breeding birds. 

This new race is named after Prof. Hinar Lénnberg, of 
Sweden. 


Mr. Davin BANNERMAN exhibited and described a new 
Redbreast from the highlands of N. Tunisia and named it 


Erithacus rubecula lavaudeni, subsp. nov. “ 


Adult male and female. Differs from L. 7. witherbyi in 
having the breast generally deeper red, the upper parts 
browner and more reddish, particularly on the head, and the 
upper tail-coverts more rusty ; wetherbyt is greyish on upper 
parts. The wings are shorter—males 65-68 mm. (the wings 
of witherbyi range from 68-72 in the specimens I have seen). 
The bill of the new race is rather stumpy and stronger than 
in witherbyi, measuring in the exposed culmen barely 10 mm. 

Type in the British Museum (dad.), No. 424. Les Sources, 
2200 ft.,near Ain Draham, 10.11.25. W. P. Lowe and D. 
A. Bannerman collectors. Six specimens were obtained. 

Range. The Highlands of the Kroumerie, Northern 
Tunisia. 

This race is named in honour of Monsieur Louis Lavauden, 
inspector of woods and forests in Tunisia, who gave us so 
much assistance in the planning of our Expedition. 

Notse.—Mr. Harry Witherby was the first to note the 
distinctness of the Tunisian Robin from the Algerian race 
named after himself. Subsequent comparison with the type 
in Tring confirms Mr. Witherby’s opinion, but, owing to 
abrasion and fading, it is important to compare birds shot 
at the same season. Faded July birds of lavaudeni resemble 
March specimens of witherby: in colour. 


Mr. BANNERMAN also described a new Tree-Creeper from 
the Little Atlas in Morocco which he proposed to name 


25 (Vol. xbvii. 


Certhia brachydactyla raisulii, subsp. nov. 


Adult male and jemale. Differs from C. b. mawritanica in 
being much greyer and less rufous on the upper side, with the — 
white streaks larger and much more pronounced. 

In size it is larger—wings of males 65-68, females 62-63 
mm. ‘The bills vary from 15-17 mm. and the tails (some of 
which are very worn) measure as much as 60 mm. in length, 
but considerable variation is shown. 

Type in the British Museum (@ ad.), Azrou, Little 
Atlas, 8 July, 1919. Admiral Lynes Coll. Reg. No. 
#919.12.11.124. 

Seven specimens obtained in the Little Atlas were identi- 
fied by Admiral Lynes (‘ lbis,’ 1920, p. 292) as C. b. mauri- 
tanica, as typical examples of that race were not at the time 
available for comparison. Mr. Willoughby Lowe and myself 
have since secured eight specimens of C. 6. mauritanica 
from the Ain Draham district of Tunisia (the type-locality), 
when it was at once apparent that the Atlas Mountain 
Creepers belonged to a different subspecies. I have named 
this race after the famous Moorish Chieftain Raisuli at the 
special request of Admiral Lynes. 

It may be remarked that Moroccan specimens are not 
nearly so rufous in colouring as typical brachydactyla brachy- 
dactyla from Hurope, or from Spanish examples, which 
appear again to be separable from the typical form. 
Admiral Lynes’s birds are approached in the colour of the 
upper parts by ultramontana, the Italian subspecies which 
ranges westwards to the Pyrenees, but can be distinguished 
from that form ata glance by the heavier longer bill and 
considerably larger size. 


ANTHUS RUFULUS LYNESI. 


Mr. BANNERMAN next drew attention to the fact that 
together with Mr. Bates he had, in the current ‘ Ibis,’ 1926, 
pp. 801-802, described a new race of Rufous Pipit from the 
highest elevations of the Cameroon Montane District, win- 
tering in the western Basin of Darfur under the above name. 


Vol. xlvii.] 26 


The sheet containing the description of this bird had 
inadvertently been published in ‘The Ibis’ (J. ¢c.) in their 
paper “ On some Birds of Adamawa and New Cameroon,” 
where it was feared the description of this interesting Pipit 
would easily be lost sight of amongst extraneous matter. 
The page was intended for the ‘ Bulletin.’ 

Ool. Meinertzhagen had made the rufulus group of Pipits 
subspecies of richardi characterized by its enormous hind- 
claw, but Mr. Bannerman said he was averse to uniting these 
two groups and preferred the arrangement used by Admiral 
Lynes in his paper. 


Lord Rotuscuiup exhibited a life-sized drawing of a 
Casuartus unappendiculatus rufotinctus Rothsch., now living 
in the Zoological Gardens, and made the following remarks 
on the group of ‘ One-wattled Cassowaries ”’ :— 


Recently Dr. Stresemann, in his account of the birds 
collected on the Sepik River in N.E. New Guinea, has 
stated that at present only two subspecies (local races) of 
Casuarius unappendiculatus could be confirmed, viz. C. un- 
appendiculatus unappendiculatus from Salwatty Island and 
C. unappendiculatus oceiyptalis from the mainland of New 
Guinea and Jobi Island. ‘This view of the case, to my mind, 
is too extreme, and, moreover, the nomenclature is untenable, 
for C. u. occipitalis and its aberration laglaizei are only 
known from Jobi Island in the two skins collected by 
Laglaize in the Paris Museum; and, until we get living 
Jobi Island examples, cannot be identified with mainland 
examples, especially as Laglaize’s specimens both show 
strong differentiation in the casque. Then of the birds 
presumed to have come from the mainland, rothschildi has 
the casque shaped as in unappendiculatus unappendiculatus, 
while rufotinctus has the casque laterally compressed as in 
the group of ‘Two-wattled Cassowaries.” In my mono- 
graph of the Cassowaries and subsequent papers I have 
acknowledged three species of ‘‘ One-wattled Cassowaries,” 
viz. C. philipi, C. mitratus, and C. unappendiculatus, the 


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last-named with six subspecies, and, in spite of Dr. Strese- 
mann’s views, I still hold to this opinion as there is no 
definite new proof to the contrary. Before the true status © 
of this group of Cassowaries can be finally settled, we 
must have series with accurate data and localities, for at 
present most of the material in museums consists of birds 
brought over alive and with no data at all. The following 
nine forms have been named: viz. mztratus, philipi, suffusus, 
rufotinctus, aurantiacus, occipitalis, laglaizer, rothschildi, and 
unappendiculatus, the first five by myself. The two forms 
mitratus and philipi I consider for the present as quite 
distinct species. Of the remaining seven, which I treat as 
forms of unappendiculatus, I am convineed that laglaizei is 
only a melanic aberration of occipitalis, the only difference 
being that, according to Laglaize, the whole head and neck 
were blue except a small orange patch on the lower hind- 
neck, whereas in occipitalis the fore- and hind-neck and sides 
of the neck are yellow or orange tinged with red. We only 
know for certain the locality of occipitalis (Jobi Island), 
aurantiacus (some part of N.E. New Guinea), and wn- 
appendiculatus (Salwatty Island). Of the others, all were 
described from living birds with no exact locality. 

Of the six ‘ One-wattled Cassowaries ”’ which I consider 
forms of unappendiculatus, with the exception of the latter 
all five have orange occipital patches; but whereas oceipitalis 
and rothschildi have the casque flat on the top and declivous 
posteriorly, and aurantiacus has it low but compressed 
laterally, rufotinctus and sufusus have a high casque strongly 
compressed laterally. In addition, sugfusus has no wattle 
at all, it being only indicated by a round flattened wart. 

When once we obtain good series with accurate data, it 
will probably be proved that no two forms occur together 
in any part of the Papuan region, and that, as they exclude 
one another geographically, all the eight forms will have to 
be considered subspecies of the one species unappendiculatus ; 
but for the present I feel sure it is right to uphold the three 
species. 


Vol. xlvii.] 28 


In confirmation of my opinion that laglatzei is a melanic 
aberration of occipitalis, I may say I have seen three 
examples of rufotinctus in which the yellow has been more 
or less replaced by blue. 


Mr. W. L. Souater sent the following :— 


Notes oN Arrican Brrps (Larks, Flycatchers, 
and Waxbills). 

Some years ago the late Captain Shelley described (Bull. 
B. 0. C. xiv. 1904, p. 82) a very remarkable Lark from 
Kordofan which he placed with some hesitation in the 
genus Calendula under the name C. dunni, after the original 
collector. Since that date it has been obtained by Captain 
Angus Buchanan in the Damergu country to the north of 
Nigeria and by Admiral Lynes in Darfur. 

Both Hartert (Nov. Zool. 1921, p. 130, and 1924, p. 42) 
and Lynes (‘ Ibis,’ 1924, p. 701) hesitated as to its generic 
relation, aud both seem agreed that it was certainly not 
rightly placed in Calendula, a monotypic genus with one 
species confined to South Africa. 

Under these circumstances, and after a careful comparison 
of the material, it seems not unreasonable to propose a new 
generic name for this remarkable little Lark, and I would 
call it 

Eremalauda, gen. nov., 


with type Calendula dunni Shelley. 

The distinguishing characters are as follows :—Bill short, 
stout, and Finch-like, resembling that of Pyrrhulauda, the 
culmen strongly curved downwards ; nostrils concealed by 
forwardly-growing plumelets ; wing with the outer primary 
narrow and attenuated, about one-third the length of the 
second, which again is approximately equal to the 3rd and 
4th; longest secondaries almost reaching the tips of the 
primaries ; tarsus rather slender and far exceeding the 
length of the culmen; tail-feathers except the two centre 
ones blackish, the outer pair with a white external web 


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only ; general colour rufous, with darker rufous centres to 
the feathers not well marked; no dark lining to the wing ; 
sexes alike. 

This little Lark appears to be nearest to Pyrrhulauda, 
from which it differs chiefly in the absence of sexual dif- 
ferentiation and in the lining-colour of the wings. 


THE SABOTA LARKS. 


When looking over the Sabota Larks in the Natural 
History Museum, I found a long series collected by 
Dr. Ansorge at Catumbella in Benguella which I could 
not identify satisfactorily. These birds were much paler 
than the typical race and have a comparatively short bill. 
I sent an example to Dr. Stresemann for comparison with 
Mirafra sabota plebeja Cab. and M. s. waibeli Grote, and he 
kindly informs me that it is quite distinct from either and 
is undoubtedly a new racial form, and I propose to name it 
after the collector : 


Mirafra sabota ansorgei, subsp. nov. 


The characters are briefly as follows :—Resembling J. s. 
_sabota, but much paler, and with pale sandy, not rich rufous, 
edgings to the feathers of the back and wings ; below almost 
white, with no tawny wash and a few brown narrow streaks 
on the chest; bill about the same size as that of M/. s. sabota. 
From WM. s. nevia it differs in its small bill. 

Type a temale, collected by Dr.W.J. Ansorge al Catumbella 
in Benguella, 6. vii.05. B.M. Reg. No. 1905.11.22.173. 

Measurements. Length in skin about 135 mm. ; wing 82 ; 
tail 52 ; tarsus 23; culmen 13. | 

In addition to the good series of thirteen examples 
collected by Dr. Ansorge, there are two males obtained by 
Messrs. Woosnam and Legge at Lehutitu (see Ogilvie- 
Grant, Ibis, 1912, p. 375) in the Kalahari. These are 
intermediate between the typical and the Benguella races, 
but perhaps rather nearer W/Z. s. ansorgei. 

In returning the Benguella Lark, Dr. Stresemann kindly 


Vol. xvii. | 30 


sent me for examination several types of species of Mirafra 
apparently not represented in the British Museum, including 
that of M. sabota waibeli Grote (Journ. Orn. 1922, p. 46: 
Okaukwejo, Ovampuland). This last has the large bill of 
M. s. nevia, but is distinctly less rufous, as is pointed out 
in the original description, and appears to represent M/. s. 
nevia in Ovampoland. It has nothing to do with the 
Benguella bird. 


We have, therefore, the following races of Sabota 
Larks :— 


MIRAFRA SABOTA SABOTA (Smith). 

Griqualand West and northern Cape Province (Deel- 
fontein) north to Matabeleland east through the Transvaal 
to Zululand. 


MIRAFRA 8. ANSORGEI W. Scl. 
Benguella, south-east to the Kalahari. 


MiRAFRA 8. PLEBEJA Cab. 
Portuguese Congo (and perhaps northern Angola). 


MrraFRa 8. N&VIA Strickl. 
Damaraland and Great Namaqualand south to the Orange 
River at Upington. 


MIRAFRA S. WAIBELI Grote. 
Ovampoland. 


MIRAFRA STRUMPELLI. 


Dr. Stresemann has kindly sent me the type of this 
species described by Reichenow (Orn. Monatsh. 1910, p. 191: 
Ngaundere, N. Cameroon). As was suspected by Mr. Bates, 
who has explored the highlands of Cameroon with such 
success, Reichenow’s type is undoubtedly identical with 
Heliocorys modesta saturatior Bannerman (Bull. B. O. C. 
xlii. 1922, p. 141: Tibati), and the race must be known 
in future as Helicorys modesta striimpelli. 


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MIRAFRA NIGRESCENS. 


An examination of the type of this species, also described 
by Reichenow (Orn. Monatsb. 1900, p. 39), proves that it 
belongs to the M. africana group, of which many races have 
been described and which ranges from Nigeria to Natal. 
The type, and only example, was obtained at the Elton 
Pass in the Ukinga district to the north of Lake Nyasa by 
Dr. Fiilleborn. It is quite a distinct race and the darkest 
and blackest of all I have examined. | 


CHLOROPETELLA SUAHELICA Roberts. 


Through the kindness of Mr. Austin Roberts, I have been 
_ privileged to examine the type of Chloropetella suahelica 
obtained by him at Myiai on 27 January, 1917; this place 
was an outpost during the war, and is about 40 miles south- 
west of Dar es Salaam in what is now Tanganyika Territory. 
The bird was subsequently described in the ‘Annals of the 
Transvaal Museum’ (vol. vi. 1917, p. 1). 

On comparing the bird with our series of African Fly- 
catchers, Mr. Wells and I were at once struck with its 
resemblance to Erythrocercus holochlorus Erlanger (Orn. 
Monatsb. 1901, p. 181), obtained by him on the Lower Juba 
River at Solole. 

There is only one example of Erlanger’s species in the 
British Museum—a female obtained by Colonel Stephenson 
Clarke’s collector at Gobwen on the Lower Juba with a wing 
of 44mm. Mr. Roberts’s bird resembles it in every respect 
except that the wing is larger, about 48 mm. 

Both these birds have the tail about the same length 
as the wing, while in Hrythrocercus it is distinctly longer ; 
the bill, too, is broader and blacker than in Hrythrocercus. 
The distinctions from Chloropeta are also quite well marked, 
as was pointed out by Mr. Roberts in his excellent diagnosis 
ot Chloropetella. 

I am therefore of opinion that this genus should be 


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maintained, and that two races differing only in size should 
be recognized, viz. :— 


CHLOROPETELLA HOLOCHROUS HOLOCHROUS (Hrlanger). 
Distr. The Juba River swamps. ) 


CHLOROPETELLA HOLOCHROUS SUAHELICA Roberts. 
Distr. Coastal districts of Tanganyika Territory. 


_EXstRILDA XANTHOPHRYS, sp. nov. 


Mr. J. Delacour recently brought alive and presented to 
the British Museum two little Waxbills of the genus Hstrilda 
which do not appear to be identical with any described race. 
They were obtained from a dealer in Marseilles and are said 
to have been imported from Senegal. . 

They were both found to be females with fair-sized ovaries, 
and we may presume were adult. They resemble Hstrilda 
troglodytes (formerly known as E. cinerea), a species widely 
spread in Africa from Senegal to the Nile Valley, but have 
the characteristic bright red eye-stripe replaced by a rich 
yellow one, and are characterized by the absence of any 
trace of the pinkish wash on the underparts, which are 
ashy- grey very finely banded with pale brown. About the 
vent there are slight traces of a yellowish streak where 
in EL. troglodytes is a conspicuous splash of pink. The back, 
too, is distinctly of a darker shade of brown. Iris reddish- 
brown, bill orange, feet purple-brown. 

Dimensions. Wing 44 mm., tail 40, ulna 4, tarsus 15—in 
this respect not differing essentially from LE. troglodytes. 

Type (a female said to come from Senegal), B.M. Reg. 
No. 1926.9.26,1. 

I am, of course, well aware of the danger of describing as ° 
new a form of doubtful origin and chiefly differing in the 
substitution of orange-yellow for red, but the little birds 
were so very distinct-looking in life that it seems advisable 
to draw attention to them by naming them, and it is to 
be hoped that collectors and observers in Senegal may 
look out for them and perhaps procure additional examples 


33 { Vol. xlvii. 


with more exact particulars which wiil throw light on their 
true status. In the meantime, I think it preferable to 
consider it as a species rather than a subspecies. 


Dr. ©. B. Ticznurst showed some Short-toed Larks 
(Calandrella brachydactyla) and made the following re- 
marks :— 

‘In this small series I have two birds of the typical race 
from within a short distance of the type-locality (Mont- 
pellier, S. France). You will notice that one of them 
matches pretty well these others from the Spanish side of the 
Pyrenees (Pamplona), and are typical specimens of the race ; 
the other, however, is much more reddish-yellow, and I 
should be sorry, allowing for a little wear, to pick it out from 
hermoniensis from Palestine, an example of which I also 
show. Now this second bird, although obtained from within 
a few miles of the typical greyer bird, was obtained on a very 
different terrain, namely on yellowish, rocky, arid, low hills 
which abut on to the Mediterranean, north of Perpignan, 
and its colour matches well its terrain. The greyer bird was 
obtained on a gravelly sandy plain of a much greyer tint, 
also close to the sea in the same area, and on about the same 
tint of soil as these other Pamplona birds. 

“ Now these simple facts open up a wide field of specu- 
lation. Firstly, how are we to regard hermoniensis? It 
certainly is not a casual variety. Dr. Hartert gives the 
distribution as middle Marocco, highland of Algeria, Algerian 
Sahara, S. Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria; but 
Meinertzhagen also records longipennis as the breeding form 
in South Palestine. This gives a fair geographical range ; 
but one would like to know whether the grey type occurs 
anywhere in the range of hermontensis in Africa Minor or 
in Palestine. I think it is very suggestive, though further 
investigation for proving or disproving is required, that we 
have here a plastic species which varies in colour according 
to the ground it inhabits (and I see Dr. Hartert expressed 
this view many years ago); and it will do this whether in the 

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east, as in Palestine, or in the west, as in the south of France. 
Where one type of terrain alone occurs one will expect only 
the one type of bird to occur, and where there is diversity 
of terrain the two (or even more) forms, regardless of 
geographical limits in a wider sense. 

‘« The question then arises, if my suggestion is proved, does 
not the same thing occur with other ground-birds such as 
Galerida Ammomanes, etc., where there is a diversity of 
terrain? Some of the races of these species are very local, 
and, of course, it is well known that they match the different 
soils pretty well. I can think of two almost parallel 
cases :—Galerida nigricans is confined to the core of the 
Nile delta on the black aliuvial soil, while G. maculata 
inhabits the desert edges (I have shot typical birds of both 
races within sight of each other !) ; but in this case I know of 
no repetition in another area, 2.e. a bird indistinguishable 
from nigricans inhabiting a black soil in another area. The 
other case perhaps is more parallel, Ammomanes deserti 
algiriensis occurring, according to Meinertzhagen (Ibis, 1921), 
in Egypt in the range of A. deserti deserti as a repetition 
form; and it looks very much as if deserti occurs, too, as a 
repetition form in the area of ésabellina; but all these want a 
lot of further and closer study together with their terrains. 

The same sort of question arises where one gets repetition 
forms due to factors other than ground-colour, such as the 
Scandinavian Dipper reappearing in the Cantabrian Moun- 
tains with other forms sandwiched in between. These 
problems are very interesting, and we have yet only 
scratched the surface of them; a lot of very careful 
collecting needs yet to be done, with notes on and samples of 
the ground these birds inhabit. Some day we may have 
sufficient data to throw light on the question, and we shall 
have to revise our appellations ; these repetition forms do not 
seem to me to be quite on a par with many racial forms 
which have a detinite but wide geographical area outside of 
which they do not occur, nor are they quite local races like 
those confined to an island or a particular mountain mass. 


35 | Vol. Ixvii. 


On behalf of Dr. P. P. Susaxin (Hon. Memb. B. 0. U.), 
Mr. N. B. Kinnear submitted the following note :— 


“Tn August of 1925 I published in the ‘ Proceedings of 
the Boston Society of Natural History,’ a description of a 
new form of Emberiza elegans, inhabiting Amurland and 
Korea, under the name JL. elegans sibirica. Dr. Claude 
B. Ticehurst has called my attention to the fact that this 
name is preoccupied by Emberiza sibirica Gmelin (= 
Emberiza aureola Pallas, 1773), and I therefore wish to 
substitute the following name: 


Emberiza elegans ticehursti, nom. nov. 
(=Emberiza elegans sibirica Sushkin, Proc. Bost. Nat. Hist. 
1925, nec Emberiza sibirica Gmelin).” 


Dr. Susuxin further described the following six new 
subspecies of Palearctic Game-birds :— 


Phasianus colchicus edzinensis, subsp. nov. 

Similar to satscheuensis Pleske, but differs as follows :— 
Borders of the scapulars and interscapulars darker, mikado 
brown to fawn instead of cinnamon or cinnamon-buff, with 
a stronger fiery gloss and the centres of these feathers purer 
white, not creamy. Underside somewhat lighter ; the black- 
green metallic border of the chest-feathers narrow and inter- 
rupted at the tip (in satscheuensis broader and complete), and 
green gloss of the chest nearly absent. The crown greenish- 
grey as in satscheuensis ; a vestigial white eyebrow-stripe ; 
white collar narrow, interrupted on the fore-neck. 

Measurements. Wing: ¢ 240-250 mm. (satscheuensis, 
248-255). 

Type in Zool. Mus. Russ. Acad. Sci. No. 13.263, ¢. Lower 
course of Hdzin-gol (or Hei-ho), Central Gobi, 23 March, 
1908; collected by Koslov. 

Material examined. Two specimens, and_ thirty-eight 
examples of P. c. satscheuensis. 

Distribution. Bassin of Hdzin-gol and Lake Kokho-nor, 
Central Gobi. 


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Tetraogallus altaicus orientalis, subsp. nov. | 

Differs from 7. altaicus altaicus (Gebler) in the paler and 
more yellowish colour above, with less dense dark freckling ; 
ground-colour of feathers of the upperside cinnamon to 
connamon-buff instead of nearly buffy-brown. The thighs 
are paler, hair-brown instead of deep mouse-grey, and the 
pale tips of the tail-feathers more pronounced. 

Measurements. Size same. Wing: ¢@ 305mm., 2 282- 
285. 

Type in Zool. Mus. Russ. Acad. Sci. No. 14.612, 2. Near 
Uliassutai, North-western Mongolia, November 1907; col- 
lected by Kozlov. 

Material examined. Three specimens compared with twenty 
T. altaicus altaicus. 

Distribution. South-eastern part of the range of the 
species. Found in Dundu-saikhan, the easternmost part of 
the Gobian Altai (near 104° E. long.) and near Uliassutai. 
A bird from Bain-Tzagan-ula, southern slope of the Gobian 
Altai (99° E. long.), is intermediate. Birds from near Kobdo 
and from the western shore of Lake Kossogol are typical. 


Tetraogallus tibetanus tschimenensis, subsp. nov. 

Compared with 7. t. tebetanus (specimens from Pamir), 
paler and more sandy-buff above, more coarsely freckled 
with dark grey, especially on the wing-coverts ; light band 
across the upper back paler, of a vinaceous-buff, and scarcely 
at all powdered with grey. In the male the chest is crossed 
by a double grey band, each about 2 cm. broad, one dividing 
the white area of the chest from the throat and another 
bordering it behind. In the female both bands nearly unite 
at the middle. White area of the throat as in 7. t. tibetanus. 
Thighs more reddish, near avellaneous (instead of light 
mouse-grey). Breast and belly as in tibetanus, without 
black margins of feathers in the middle. 

Measurements. Size the same as in the typical form. 
Wing: ¢ 280mm., ¢ 220 (tape). 

Type in Gool. Mus. Russ. Acad. Sci. No, 14.568, @. 


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Moskovskii Range (western part of Columbus Range), 
Kwen-lun Syst. (86-88° E. long., 373° N. lat.), N.W. Tibet, 
Dec. 1884 ; collected by Przewalski. | 

Material examined. Two specimens and notes of Prze- 
walski. | 

Distribution. Tchimen-tag and Moskovskii Range, Kwen- 
lun Syst. (86-92° E. long.). 


Tetraogallus tibetanus centralis, subsp. nov. 


Darker all over than the foregoing and more fulvous. 
Darker and much more fulvous than 7. ¢. tibetanus, with the 
white of the throat and chest more restricted. Top of the 
head and occiput dark neutral grey, and the light band across 
the upper back well pronounced, but ground-colour near 
avellaneous and densely powdered with dark grey. Upper 
side strongly fulvescent,:darker and more cinnamon than in 
T. t. tibetanus ; rump strongly coloured with bright fawn. 
White patch on the throat narrower than in T. ¢. tibetanus 
and 7. t. tschimenensis. Patterns of the chest variable, but 
generally with two dark grey cross-bands, which are in the 
female more or less confluent at the middie line. Feathers 
of the centre of breast and belly mostly bordered with black. 
Thighs dark ‘‘ avellaneous.”’ 

Measurements. Size not different. Wing: ¢ 270-280 mm., 
2 262-270 (tape). 
~ Type in Zool. Mus. Russ. Acad. Sci. No. 14.577. Tang- 
(Dang-)la Range, Central Tibet, Tang-la Pass (994° E. long.). 

Material examined. Twenty-three specimens. 

Distribution. Humboldt Range ; Tang-la ; northern slope 
of Burkhan-budda ; Southern Kuku-nor Range nearly as 
far east as Dang-er-ling or Jenkar (from the Southern 
Tetung Range begins the area of przewalskit). 

Nore.—T. tibetanus przewalsku differs from all the fore- 
going by its much darker and greyer upperside; light band 
on the upper back little pronounced and strongly powdered 
with dark grey ; white throat-patch narrow ; chest in the 
male with broad dark grey double cross-band and small 


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white area (in one specimen white area absent); the female 
with grey chest, white patch totally absent or represented 
by few scattered white feathers. 

Measurements. Perhaps a trifle larger. Wing: ¢ 275- 
287 mm., ¢ 258-273. j 

Material examined. Nine specimens. 

Distribution. Hastern Tibet, from the Oring-noz Lake, 
sources of Hwang-ho, and Tetung (or Tatung) Range. 

Tt is to be noted that Przewalski, in his MSS. diaries, which 
have never been published or used clearly, distinguishes these 
traces of 7. tzbetanus without naming them, and partly traces 
their distribution. 


Perdix hodgsoniz occidentalis, subsp. nov. 


Differs from P. hodgsonie sifanica Przew. as follows :— 
Paler above and less heavily marked below. Chestnut 
coloration along the fore margin of the wing feebly deve- 
loped, in the female nearly absent. Dark bars on the 
underside (birds of same sex compared) narrower, in the 
female sometimes interrupted ; black malar strip in the male 
narrower by one-half (5-6 mm. broad instead of 10-12), in 
the female narrower and divided from the orbit by whitish 
interspace. 

Measurements. Size as in sifanica. 

Material examined. Nineteen specimens compared with 
thirty-nine specimens of sifanica. 

Type in Zool. Mus. Russ. Acad. No. 13.760, §. Gurban- 
angyz-gol, Nan-shan, September 1894; collected by 
Roborovski and Koslov. 

Distribution. From Western Nan-shan to the Southern 
Kuku-nor Range and even a little east of Kuku-nor. The 
area of P. h. sifanica begins from southern slope of Amne- 
machin Range, Upper Hwang-ho, and from Chortentan 
Monastery (Jetung River, near 723° H. long. and 37 N. 
lat.). 

Perdix barbata przewalskii, subsp. nov. 

Differs from P. barbata barbata in the ochreous area of 
the breast and belly united by a broad band with the same 


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coloured area of the throat; the dark patch on the belly as 
large as in P. 6. barbata, but paler brownish-black. Upper - 
side slightly paler and more yellowish. From P. b. turcomana 
it differs in the same way as from the typical race. 
’ Type in Zool. Mus. Russ. Acad. No. 13.872, ¢. Southern 
Kuku-nor Range, February 1880 ; collected by Przewalski- 
Material examined. Eighteen specimens compared with 
forty-seven of P. 6. barbata and sixty-seven of P. 6. turcomana. 
Distribution. Tzaidam; around Kuku-nor; eastern Nan- 


shan. 


On behalf of Mr. B. Steemann, Assist. Zool. Mus. Russ. 
Acad., Mr. Kinnear submitted the following description of 


a new Tawny Owl :— 


Strix aluco obscurata, subsp. nov. 


The grey phase differs from that of Strix aluco aluco by 
its darker general colour, more developed dark markings, 
and less developed white spots on the scapulars and wing- 
coverts. Upper sideis darker, wing-coverts near natal brown 
(Ridgway, 2nd ed.), and the dark markings of the upper 
side and tail are more developed; white spots of the 
scapulars smaller and suffused with brown, those of the 
wing-coverts smaller and less numerous than in aluco aluco. 
Underside and legs darker, with more pronounced transverse 
markings. Facial disc darker and more distinctly barred. 
The rufous phase is darker and brighter than in aluco 
aluco. 

Type in Zool. Mus. Russ. Acad. Sci., ¢ ad. Lenkoran, 
S.W. shore of the Caspian Sea, 24 December, 1889 ; col- 
lected by T. Nazarov. 

Measurements. Wing 303-305 mm. (tape). 

Distribution. Talysh and forest region south of the Caspian 
Sea, probably as far east as Teheren (specimen labelled 
« Persien, Nicolin,” Stockholm Mus., probably from this 
last locality ; Sushkin zn litt.). 

Material examined. Four specimens. 


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Notr.—This form is another instance which shows 
the local races of Talysh forest-birds are characterized 
principally by their dark coloration. From the small 
and extremely pale S. a. sancti-nicolai Zarudn. (hill-ranges 
of western Persia and near Mossul), and the large and 
comparatively light S. a. hairmst Zarudn. (W. Turkestan), 
the present subspecies differs conspicuously. 


Mr. Grecory M. Maruews sent the following new 
names :— 

Melanopitta bonapartena, new name for Brachyurus forsteni 
Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av. vol. 1. p. 256, 1850 (not ad., ib. 
p- 209). 

Ethelornis magnirostris cobana, new name for Zatemeee 


fusca Bernstein, Journ. f. Orn. 1864, p. 406 (not Gerygone 
fusca Gould, 1846). 


Rhipidura flabellifera melande, new name for Kf. f. kempt 
Mathews & Iredale, 1913 (not of Mathews, 1912). 


Pterodroma siliga, new name for Procellaria agilis, 1912 
(not Gray, 1871). 


Mr. H. Gururiz Smiru, introduced by Mr. Sladen Wing, 


gave a short account of some field-observations on certain 


New Zealand birds :— 


The Auckland Island Snipe (Canocorypha aucklandica; 
subsp.), he stated, lays two eggs in a nest of moss and lichen 
on a cushion of gale-flattened scrub. He had never seen 
more than a single nestling following its parents, and had 
reason to believe that instantly after the chipping of the egg 
the weaker chick succumbs. ‘These Snipe feed on small red 
worms found plentifully in the peat, and still survive because 
they nest on wind-swept barren grounds, where there is 
nothing to tempt the prowling Wood-Hens ((allirallus). 
They are extremely tame, can be stroked on the nest, and 
are practically flightless, running for the nearest cover when 
disturbed. 


The Stewart Island Apteryx (Apterya australis lawryt) 


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Mr. Guthrie Smith had only met with on the island of that 
name, where it is still fairly plentiful. It nests in shallow © 
burrows, four or six feet long, excavated in a bank in the 
forest and always facing the north. The male when incubating 
sits blocking up the hole with its back to the light. The 
enormous egg of this species is greenish-white in colour, 
like a Domestic Duck’s, and is laid on quite a respectable nest 
of leaves and forest-débris. The young bird remains in the 
burrow for some time, and on vacating it the whole family 
take up their quarters in some dry crevice beneath rocks or 
fallen trees. In North Island, he said, the North Island 
Kiwi (Apteryx australis mantellc) was still to the fore, and 
pretty safe in the narrow depths of gorges, into which the 
very weasels would hesitate to go. 

The Wry-billed Plover (Anarhynehus frontalis) had 
already been photographed and its habits described by 
another New Zealand naturalist. He personally had 
watched the bird in vain at its breeding-quarters in South 
Island for any clue as to the use of the curious-shaped 
bill; but in North Island, where the bird migrates in 
winter, he had observed it sweeping the wets and with a 
remarkable scythe-like action of its bill, for some minute 


food-supply. 


Mr. GurTuriz Samir then went on to make some interesting 
remarks on the breeding-habits of the Whitehead, Certhiparus 
albicillus, and the Stitch Bird, Notiomystis cincta *, 


Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker sent the following remarks on 
Oriental birds and described five new subspecies :— 


PICUS CANUS SANGUINICEPS. 

Stuart Baker, Bull. B. O. C. xlvi. p. 70, 1926. 
- This bird is the same as Picus barbatus Gray & Hardw. 
Ill. Orn., and my name becomes a synonym. 


* [As the habits of these birds are very fully described in Mr. Guthrie 
Smith’s recent book, ‘ Bird-life on Island and Shore’ (Blackwood & 
Sons), we would refer members to that interesting work. ] 


Vol. Ixvii.] 42 


PICcUS CHLOROPHUS 'CHLOROLOPHOIDES. 

Brachylophus chlorolophoides Gyldenstolpe, Orn. Monatsb. 
A916,\p./29. 

This Woodpecker had already been distinguished by 
Gyldenstolpe from Koon Tan, N. Siam, and as the Burmese 
birds are the same, Meinertzhagen’s name, Picus chloro- 
lophus burme, becomes a synonym. 


DRYOBATES PECTORALIS. 

Picus pectoralis Blyth, J. A’S. Bi xv. p. 15, 2e4ais 
preoccupied by Picus pectoralis Wagler, Syst. Av., Picus, 
p. 74, 1827. The next name available is Picus analis 
Bonaparte, Consp. Av. p. 137, 1850: Java. 


DRYOBATES CABANISI STRESEMANNI. 

My Dryobates cabanisi stephensoni (Bull. B.O.C. xlvi. 
p. 70, 1926), from Lechiang, Yunnan, seems to be the same 
as Dryobates major stresemanni (Rensch, Abh. u. Ber. f. Tier. 
Volk. du Dresden, xvi. p. 28, 1924), from Hastern Tibet, 
and therefore becomes a svnonym of that name. 


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Yungipicus hardwickii brunneiceps, subsp. nov. _/ 


Description. Similar, sex for sex, to Y. h. hardwickhii, but 
much paler everywhere; the colour of the head is a light, 
almost yellowish-brown ; the upper parts are a paler brown, 
with more white, especially on the upper tail-coverts ; the 
lower plumage is paler, with paler brown streaks. 

Colours of soft parts asin Y. h. hardwickit. 

Measurements. Wing 74-80 mm.; tail 35-40; tarsus 
about 15-16 ; culmen 13-14. 

Type in the British Museum. 6, near Jelwara, Jodpur— 
Oodeypore road, 12 February, 1878. Hume Collection, 
No. 87.8.10.526. 

Distribution. This is a northern form of true Y. h. hard- 
wickii, following the usual Oriental rule of being larger and 
paler in the north than in the south. It is found in Central 
and Northern India, north of a line roughly drawn from 
Khandesh on the west to Bellary in the centre and to the 


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Nulla Malai Hills of Northern Madras in the east. It extends 
to the Punjab, Kuman Terai, and the Bhutan Duars, and 
east to Behar, Bengal, and Orissa. 

Material examined. A very large series has been available 
for examination and comparison with the nearest forms. 


Sasia ochracea querulivox, subsp. nov. 


Description. Not nearly so dark above as S. 0. ochracea ; 
above more rufous, less olive, and below much less deep or 
rufous; the lores are generally a paler grey; the point of 
the chin is usually grey instead of rufous, and the throat 
is sometimes distinctly paler. 

Colours of soft parts as in S. 0. ochracea. 

Measurements. Much the same as in that bird. Wing 
51-56 mm. as against 54-97. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢, Tippera Hills, E. Bengal, 
Jan. 1870. Hume Collection, No. 87.8.10.2238. 

Distribution. Assam south of the Brahmapootra, Manipur ; 
Hill Tippera and Chittagong in Eastern Bengal ; Chin Hills 
and the extreme north-west of Burma. 

Material examined. A large series. 


Megalaima virens magnifica, subsp. nov. 


Description. Similar to M. v. marshallorum, but much more 
richly and deeply coloured both above and below. It is 
intermediate between M. v. virens and M. v. marshallorum, 
having the blue head of the latter but the rich colouring of 
the former, the Chinese form. The streaks on the upper 
back are few in number and generally white or bluish, not 
yellow or green as in that bird. 

Colours of soft parts as in the other races. 

Measurements. The same as in M. v. virens. Wing 
141-145 mm. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢, Machi, Manipur, 
8th May, 1881. Hume Collection, No. 88.11.30.40. 

Distribution. Assam north and south of the Brahmapoctra, 


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Manipur, Lushai and Chin Hills ; hill-tracts of Tippera and 
Chittagong in Eastern Bengal. 
Material examined. A large series. 


Rhopodytes tristis nigristriatus, subsp. nov. 
Description. Ditfers from RR. t. tristis in having the 
underparts less tinged with ochre, the striations on the 
throat extending to the breast, where the black shafts show 
up strongly, and in its larger size. 

From &. t. longicaudatus it differs in having the chin, 
throat, and breast decidedly darker and in being larger. 

In RK. t. tristis the white tips to the tail-feathers are oblique 
in shape, whilst in A. t. nigristriatus they are square and in 
R. t. longicaudatus intermediate. 

Measurements. Wing 166-180 mm. as tenia 148-163 in 
R. t. longicaudata ; tail 360-394 ; tarsus about 40 ; culmen 
about 31-33. 

Type in the British Museum. No sex, Buxa Duars, Jan. 
to Feb. 1878. Hume Collection, No. 87.12.2.979. 

Distribution. Outer Himalayas, Kuman to Assam; Bengal 
and possibly Chota Nagpur and Northern Cirears (Tendon 
Chin Hills and North Burma to Northern Shan States. 

The two names, monticolus and montanus of Hodgs., which 
are applicable to this bird, are unfortunately both nom. nuda. 
Gray’s reference to monticolus (J. A.S. B. xl. p. 1095, 1842) 
merely states that Hodgson’s monticolus is the same as 
longicaudatus, whilst the same author’s reference to montanus 
in Zool. Misc. p. 85, 1844, is merely its enumeration as one 
of the Cuckoos. 

Material examined. A large series of all three forms. 


Coryllis vernalis rubropygialis, subsp. nov. 
Description. Similar to C. v. vernalis, but much darker 
both above and below; the rump also is a deeper, duller red. 
Measurements. Wing 91-95 mm. 
Type in the British Museum. 6, Belgaum Dist., 1879. 
Collected by Capt. E. A. Butler. No. 89.1.26.17. 


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Distribution. South-west coast of India from Cape Comorin 
to the latitude of Bombay City ; east it occurs in the Nilgiri | 
and adjoining hills. 

Material examined. Twenty-five specimens of this new 
form and a very large series of the typical form. 


Mr. P. F. Bunyarp read the following report of his 
observations on the Cuckoo for the season 1926 :— 


Curiously enough, the Coal Strike indirectly interfered 
with Mr. Scholey’s Cuckoo observations, as his firm were 
unable to secure sufficient fuel to keep the pumps going ; 
consequently the chalk pit was flooded to a depth of 8 feet, 
and the Pied Wagtails were driven from their usual territory, 
followed by the Cuckoo.. 

On the Reed-Warbler territory the 1925 Cuckoo again 
took possession and deposited fifteen eggs—one in the nest 
of a Sedge-Warbler and fourteen in the nests of Reed- 
Warblers. 

The first egg was merited on May 23rd and the last on 
July 5th, with the usual intervals of approximately 48 hours; 
in others there were, for various reasons, intervals of 3 days. 

On June 28th Mr. Scholey telephoned me to come down, 
and I reached the marshes about 4 p.m. <A short time 
afterwards the Cuckoo put in an appearance, though she 
was not due to deposit her thirteenth egg until about 6 P.M. 

We then retired to our “dump” to keep watch, leaving 
Musselwhite in the next meadow to signal as soon as the 
Cuckoo reappeared in the vicinity of a Reed-Warbler’s nest 
containing a single egg, the only one available for the 
reception of the Cuckoo’s egg. 

After a few minutes’ wait she again appeared and flew 
into the thorn-bushes near the prospective nest. We then 
fixed the ‘‘ hide” in position about 8 feet from the Warbler’s 
nest, and after clearing away the obstructing reeds in order 
to have a clear view of the nest, I entered the “hide” 
at 6 P.M. 


Vol. ixvii.] 46 


The Reed-Warbler soon put in an appearance and went on 
to the nest, but did not remain, and it was some time before . 
she was properly settled on the nest, aud even then was very 
restless and kept looking round as though she was expecting 
her mate or possibly the Cuckoo; twice she sang while on the 
nest—a proceeding quite new to me. 

At 6.45 p.m. she hurriedly left the nest, and a few moments 
later I caught sight of the Cuckoo threading her way through 
the reeds towards the nest, using her zygodactyl feet in 
much the same way as a Parrot when climbing about a 
cage. On reaching the nest the Cuckoo clung on to it ina 
Woodpecker-like attitude, with the feet firmly grasping the 
side. She became quite still ; then suddenly thrust her head 
into the nest, repeating the operation until her head dis- 
appeared completely. 

Having, as I felt certain, accomplished her mission, she 
flew over the “hide ” and was seen by my companions, who 
came over to the “‘ hide” for my report. 

I then related what I had seen, adding that I was sure the 
Cuckoo had deposited her egg. Mr. Scholey went to look 
at the Reed-Warbler’s nest, and to my surprise called out 
that it was intact and that there was no Cuckoo’s egg. 

Why did she visit the nest and not deposit? I am 
certain she was not disturbed, as she appeared to be in no 
hurry. Was it merely a visit of inspection, or a count ? 

The Cuckoo was a very beautiful bluish-grey bird, quite 
different from the dark one which I saw deposit her egg 
into a Pied Wagtail’s nest in the quarry ; she remained at 
the nest about 7-10 seconds, and I did not hear a note of 
any description. 

On Mr. Scholey’s advice I remained in the “hide” for 
over one and a half hours, as he thought that the Cuckoo 
might return at any moment, since she had not laid an egg. 
She did not, however; neither did she use this nest, but 
deposited her tnirteenth egg on July Ist in another Reed- 
Warbler’s nest near by. 

The disappointment at not seeing the actual deposition 


AT [ Vol. xvii. 


was amply compensated for by a most interesting and unique 
experience—one which has proved to me that a Cuckoo has — 
no difficulty in clinging to a nest and placing the head well 
in for the purpose of depositing by regurgitation should she 
so desire. 

On July 8rd I again went down to see the fourteenth egg 
deposited ; but on our arrival at the marshes about 2.30 P.m. 
found that the Cuckoo had already deposited in a Reed- 
Warbler’s nest, earlier than she had ever previously deposited 
either in 1925 or this year. 

A third visit proved equally disappointing, as after I-had 
been in the “hide” about twenty minutes, the Cuckoo 
appeared near the prospective nest and then went right 
away and was not seen again; her fifteenth and final egg was 
discovered in a Reed-Warbler’s nest on July 6th, although 
we are certain it was laid on July Sth. 

Mr. Scholey has kindly furnished me with the following 
- data of deposition, showing the various intervals :— 

Eggs. Dates. 
ist. May 23rd. 
Amaia i 25th, belorevr BM. 


drd. » 2th, at 6.30 P.M. 

Ath. June Ist. 

5th. * dollars) £5 

6th. es 5th. 

(Ge ib 7th. 

Sth. ae kG 

9th. -¢ SEs 
10th. mee zord, at 6.45 Pim, 
Lith. me 2th. 


12th. a adh, at 6.5 P.M. 
13th. July Ist. 
14th. Pai ord. 
15th. pee oth, at 6.20PM. 
This Cuckoo did more raiding this year than in 1925 ; 
several nests of eggs and young birds were destroyed by 
her, especially towards the end of the season. 


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Vol. duvii.] 48 


Another confirmatory piece of evidence was in connection — 
with the eight-day break between the eighth and ninth 
egos: much the same thing happened in 1922, when a 
Wagtail Cuckoo had a similar break midway through 
a series of fourteen eggs laid by her that year. 


Mr. Bunyarp exhibited a black-and-white drawing by 
Miss Edna Bunyard, showing the Cuckoo at the Reed- 
Warbler’s nest. 


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{ November 27th, 1926. ] a VOL. XLVII. 


Vol. xlvii. ] 50 


The Hon. M. U. Hacuisuka read the following note on 
“The Nomenclatorial Problem of Mutations” :— 


Among birds, mutations are not so frequent as in other 
groups of animals. There are, however, several generally 
accepted examples, but their nomenclature is so irregular 
that, unless some definitely fixed form of nomenclature is 
used in future, such cases will always prove misleading. 

Zoologists since Linnzus have applied the term “ Varietas ” 
(usually abbreviated into ‘‘ Var.’’) to all classes of specimens 
which differ from the normal examples of a species, 2. ¢., both 
to ‘“ Geographical Races ” and *‘ Individual Variations,” also 
to the class under’ consideration, 7. e¢., ‘‘ Mutations.”’ 
Linneus, however, only applied the term “ Varietas” to 
“ Geographical Races.” Modern workers have entirely 
abandoned the misleading terms “ Varietas” =“ Variety” 
and apply the term ‘‘ Subspecies”’ to denote a “ Geographical 
Race,” expressed trinomially, and the term ‘“ Aberration ” to 
denote an individual departure from the normal and express 
it thus “ab. nigra.” But, hitherto, no special term has been 
adopted to denote a Mutation. As an example we find the 
abnormal dark race of the Golden Pheasant usually expressed 
as Chrysolophus pictus var. obscurus, but it is really a muta- 
tion, 2. é., adeparture from the normal which if paired with a 
similar bird will breed true, though arising, like an aberration, 
spontaneously. If, however, an aberration occurs more or 
less normally, modern writers denote it by the term forma 
dimorphica, abbreviated to “ form. dimorph.” An example 
of this is the Wheatear, CGinanthe hispanica, which has 
sometimes a black throat and sometimes a white throat. 

However, from modern observations and research into 
evolution, it is quite clear that many, if not most, of our 
present-day species have come into existence by evolutionary 
differentiation from their immediate predecessors, and no 
doubt quite a considerable number of them by sudden 
‘“mutational jumps’’ accompanied by the capacity of 
breeding true to type. In the past these mutations in many 
instances were considered to be distinct species——for ex- 
ample, ‘‘The Black-winged Pea-fowl” as Pavo nigripennis 


am. [ Vol. xlvii. 


of Dr. Sclater and the “ Black-throated Golden Pheasant,’’ 


Thaumalea obscura of Schlegel. These were afterwards found 


to be varieties produced through domestication, but, as they 
breed true, it would be wrong to call them simply Pavo 
eristatus and Thaumalea picta without any qualification. 
Professor Lénuberg also has described a form of Capercaillie 
from Kajaani, Finland, as Tetrao urogullus lugens. This bird 
appears to be a wild mutation, and therefore should not be 
designated as an ordinary subspecies. I propose that all 
such mutations, both wild and domestic, should be distin- 
guished by the abbreviation “ mut.,” signifying mutation, 


thus :—— 
Pavo cristatus mut. nigripennis Sclat. 


Chrysolophus pictus mut. obscurus (Schleg.). 


Of course, such nomenclature can only be used if we have 
fairly good evidence that the abnormality thus treated is 
really a mutation and not merely an aberration. In most 
cases the proof, except by direct breeding experiments, 
will not be easy to obtain. Much care and investigation 
must, therefore, be carried out before anyone should make 
use of this new method of treating mutations as distinct from 


casual aberrations. 


Mr. HacutsKa also named the following new mutation of 
Phasianus colthicus :— 

After exhibiting and describing the melanistic form of 
the common Pheasant which I showed at the last meeting 
of the Club (see Bull. B. O. C. ccev. p. 101, 1926), both 
Lord Rothschild and Mr. Seth-Smith remarked that this 
form of Pheasant was well known and that in the Zoological 
Gardens it had bred true. 

I therefore have no hesitation in saying it is a true 
mutant and I propose to call it 

Phasianus colchicus mut. tenebrosus, mut. nov. 

Type in the Tring Museum. @. Norfolk. (For descrip- 
tion, see Bull. B. O. C. p. 106, 1926.) 

Norr.—So far as we know at present, this mutation has 


only appeared among the semi-feral Pheasants in England. 
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Vol. xlvii. | 52 


Contrary to the opinion held by some ornithologists, 
I consider Phasianus colchicus and P. versicolor to be two 
distinct species, not subspecies, and I therefore consider that 
there is no cross of versicolor in the bird above named. At 
first I hesitated to call it anything but Phasianus tenebrosus, 
mut. nov., but this term is too vague, and rather reluctantly 
I must add the colchicus, as Lord Rothschild points out that 
it is undoubtedly a true mutant of the birds I consider to 
belong to the “ Formenkreiss” of colchicus, 

At the same time, however, it is theoretically possible that 
this form of mutation occurs among true P. versicolor. 


Mr. Hachisuka’s remarks were followed by a discussion in 
whieh a number of members joined, and from the views 
expressed it was evident that the majority were against the 
advisability of naming mutations. 


Mr. Hacuisuxa further described the following fifteen 
new forms from the Oriental Region :— 


Dendrobiastes hyperythrus sumatranus, subsp. nov. / 

Adult male bluish-slate above, intermediate in colour 
between PD. h. malayana and the new form described below. 
The underside is a very strong rusty yellow of deeper shade 
than in any of the other subspecies, and the bill is broad and 
stout as in D. h. hyperythrus and D.h. mjdbergt from Borneo, 
and larger than in either DY. h. malayana or D. h. vulcani 
from Java. 3 

In the female the underside is reddish, of a lighter shade 
than in D. h. malayana. 

Type in British Museum. 6. Siolak Daras, 3000 ft., 
Korinchi, Sumatra, 25th March, 1914. Collected by H. C. 
Robinson and CO. B. Kloss. Registered No. 1920.6.29.328. 

Material examined. Six examples from Korinchi and 
one from ‘‘ Sumatra.” 


Dendrobiastes hyperythrus taivanicus, subsp. nov. 
Adult male clear slate-blue above, lighter in tint than any 
of the other forms ; below similar to D. h. annamensis, but 
slightly lighter, 


be [ Vol. xlvii. 


Female yellowish-brown, lighter in colour than any of the 
other races and wanting the green tinge. 

Typein British Museum. . Tongapo, Formosa, 9th Jan., 
1894. Collectedby P. A. Holst. Registered No. 1899.7.2.494. /> 

Material examined. Five specimens from Formosa; Ton- 


gapo, Laulong, Mt. Arizan and Ho Ho Mt., 5000 ft. 


Suya superciliaris klossi, subsp. nov. 


Distinguished from S. s. superciliaris, Yunnan and Burma, 
in the absence of black markings on the breast and whiter 
and less buff under surface. 

Type in British Museum. ¢. Dalat, 4500 ft., S. Annam, 
7th April, 1918. Collected by C. B. Kloss. Registered 
No. 1919 1220%39% 

Norre.—This race is intermediate between the typical race 
and S. s. albogularis from Sumatra. Birds from the type- 
locality (Yunnan) have dark markings on the breast which are 
not shown in the figure on plate 11. of ~Anderson’s ‘ Zoology 
of Western Yunnan.’ The bird in this plate resembles S. s. 
klossi, but the upper parts and tail are lighter. Hxamples 
collected by Delacour in Laos are very heavily marked. 

Material examined. Four specimens from Dalat, S. Annam, 
and a large series from Yunnan and Sumatra. | 


Horornis canturians taivanorum, subsp. nov. 


Distinguished from H. c. canturians by the less rufous 
upperside, especially on the head, the less distinct eyebrows, 
and more strongly coloured underparts of yellowish-brown, 
which colour is most conspicuous on the breast and flanks. 

Type in British Museum. 6. Hills near Tamsui, N. 
Formosa, 24th Feb., 1895, ex C. B. Rickett collection. 
Registered No. 1905.12.24.722. 

Material examined. Over thirty examples of H. c. taivan- 
orum and about forty of H. c. canturians from 8. China. 

Nore.—La Touche, ‘ Birds of Hast China,’ part iii. p. 263, 
suggests that the winter-quarters of HH. c. borealis are in 
Formosa, but this is not confirmed by specimens in the 
British Museum Collection. 


Vol. xlvii. ] 54 


A single specimen in the British Museum from N.W. Luzon 
belongs to the present race. 


Setaria albigularis leucogastra, subsp. nov. 

Similar in size to S. a. albigularis, but distinguished by 
the lighter underparts, flanks only very light buff, and breast 
of a pale French grey instead of dark grey. 

Measurements :—Wing 73-77 mm. ; tail 57-60. 

Type in British Museum. . Paku, Sarawak, Borneo, 
December 1878. Collected by A. H. Everett. Registered 
No. 1878.5.3.15. 

Material examined. Six examples of the new race from 
Borneo: Mt. Dulet, Paku, Bintulu, and Lawas R., and a 
good series of the typical form. 


~ Turdinus macrodactylus bakeri, subsp. nov. 


Distinguished from 7’. m. macrodactylus from Malacea by 
the greyer and less rufous underside, the flanks and under 
tail-coverts buffish-brown, the back less rufous, and the ear- 
coverts not so dark as in the typical form. It is also a little 
larger. 

Type in British Museum. . Lam ra, Trang, N. Malay 
Peninsula, 19th Jan., 1910. Collected by Kuala Lumpur 
Mus. collector. Registered No. 1910.12.27.295. 

Material examined. Five examples of the new form from 
Chong Hill and Lam ra, Trang, N. Malay Peninsula, and 
Tung Song Paa, Peninsular Siam, and a considerable number 
of T. m. macrodactylus. 

Nore.—Named in honour of Mr. Stuart Baker, who has 
examined the series and agrees that the birds are different. 
Mr. Baker had previously expressed his opinion on these 
birds in Journ. Nat. Hist. Siam, vol. iii. p. 187. 


Eupetes macrocercus subrufus, subsp. nov. 


Specimens from Borneo are very richly coloured, the 
rufous on the underparts more extensive, and the upper parts 
are much redder especially on the tail, while the head is 
very rich brown. 


55 [ Vol. xlvil. 


Immature birds can be distinguished from similar specimens. 
of the typical form by the deep brown head and upper 
surface. 

Type in British Museum. 2. Mt. Dulit, Sarawak, 
Borneo, 3000 ft., October 1898. Collected by OC. Hose. 
Registered No. 1900.2.15.45. . 7 

Material examiued. Six of the new race and about twenty 
from the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, etc. 

Norr.—A skin in the British Museum, No. 94.7.5.65, from 
Penrisen, is very pale and the bill is slightly longer and 
cannot be separated from the typical race. Birds from Java 
and Sumatra appear to belong to HL. m. macrocercus. 


Diceum hematostictum whiteheadi, subsp. nov. 


Above glossy metallic blue instead of slate-blue. The 
black feathers on the breast and abdomen are more abundant. 

Type in British Museum. 2. Mt. Canloan, Negros, 
26th March, 1896. Collected by J. Whitehead. Registered 
No. 1897.5.13.441. 

Material examined. Hight of the new form and eleven 
from Panay and Guimaras. 


Diceum pygmeum palawanorum, subsp. nov. 


Distinguished by the larger bill, which is at least 1 mm. 
longer than in typical bird. It is also larger and the black 
of the back duller. 

Type in British Museum. 4. Iwahig, Palawan, 26th 
June, 1907. Collected by W. P. Lowe. Registered 
No. 1911.11.16.305. 

Material examined. Ten specimens of the new race and 
about twenty from the islands of the Philippines. 

Measurements :— 

D.p. pygmeum, Philippine Is. Wing 42-47 mm. 
D. p. palawanorum, Philippine Is. Wing 45-48 mm. 

(The difference in measurements between the sexes is 
sometimes as much as 6 mm., but as most of the birds 
examined are not sexed this true difference in the size of the 
two forms is not clearly shown in the measurements given.) 


Vol. xlvii.] | 56 


Zosterops aureiventer parvus, subsp. nov. / 

Differs from Z. a. buxtont of Java and Sumatra in the 
smaller size. | 

Measurements :—Z. a. parvus. Wing 46-48 mm. 

Z. a. buxton. .° 4," (49-50 Vie 

Type in British Museum. g. Kina Balu, N. Borneo, 
30th March, 1887. Collected by J. Whitehead. Registered 
No. 1898.9.30.223. 

Material examined. Five examples of the new race and 
nine of Z. a. buxtont. 


Zosterops palpebrosa harterti, subsp. nov. 


Nearest to Z. p. peguensis, but distinguished by its 
smaller size. From Z. p. simpiex it differs in the paler 
coloration and smaller size. 


Measurements :— 


Z. p. peguensis. Pegu & Tenasserim. Wing 55-57 mm. 


Z. p. simplex.  S.H. China. >, JODSNE: 
Z. p. hartertt. Formosa and 5» 00-90 4, 
Hainan. 5, 00299 


93 

Material examined. Six examples of Z. p. peguensis, nine 
Z. p. hartertt, and a number of Z. p. simplex. 

Dr. Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. pp. 242-243, 1910, has 
already remarked on the difference of Formosan specimens, 
and Mr. Stuart Baker also expressed the same views (‘ Ibis,’ 
1922, p. 144). 

Type in British Museum. ¢. Nanto Distr., Central 
Formosa, March 1908. Collected by A. Moltrecht. Re- 
gistered No. 1909.10.29.11. 


Dicrurus leucogenys meridionalis, subsp. nov. 


This new race is at once distinguished by its darker 
plumage and somewhat smaller size. Birds from Western 
and Northern China are generally darker, while those from 
S.E. China are the lightest. 


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Measurements :— 


D. |. meridionalis. 
3¢. Wing 135-142 mm.; outer tail-feather 125-140 mm. 
oo... V30-—O ;. “ A 125-135 ,, 


D. |. leucogenys. . 
83. Wing 135-145 mm.; outer tail-feather 130-140 mm. 
Bo 3 oe Bean lbare us ~ is Fava Ws. 


Type in British Museum. <6. Seven Finger Range, 
Central Hainan, 16th Nov., 1906. Collected by R. Douglas. 
Registered No. 1909.8.30.36. 

Material examined, Six examples of the new race and 
over a dozen from Continental China. 

Nore.—tThe breeding of this bird in Hainan has not been 
recorded, and Dr. Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 249, suggested 
that the bird here described was possibly on a winter visit 
to the island; but I think it is a resident in the high 
mountains. 


Bhringa remifer sumatrana, subsp. nov. | 


Readily distinguished by the smaller size from the typical 
form. 


Measurements :— 


B. rv. remifer. 
Central tail-teathers 120-125 mm.; wing 131-142 mm. 


B. rv. sumatrana. 


Central tail-feathers 108-120 mm.; wing 125-132 mm. 


Type in British Museum. ¢. Sungei Kumbang, Korinchi, 
Sumatra, 6th April, 1914. Collected by Messrs. H. C. 
Robinson and C. B. Kloss. Registered No. 1920.6.29.542. 

Material examined. Hight examples from Sumatra and 
five from Java. 


Vol. xlvii.] 58 


Dissemurus paradiseus insularis, subsp. nov. 


Distinguished from the typical form by the shorter tail. 

Range. Borneo and Sumatra. 

Type in British Museum. ¢. Sarawak, Borneo, 20th 
Sept. 1877, ex Hume Coll. Registered No. 1886.3.1.2416. 


Dissemurus paradiseus wallacei, subsp. nov. 


Distinguished from the typical form by the exceptionally 
long tail and greater development of the crest. 

Range. Java. 

Type in the British Museum. Modjokerto, K. Java, 
Aug. 1861. Collected by A. R. Wallace. Registered 
No. 1873.5.12.1984. 

Measurements :— 

2 a Tail without 
D. p. paradiseus Wing. récket-feaeere: 

Malay Peninsula. ¢. 134-146 mm. 136-145 mm. 


?. 137-147 ,, 141-148 ,, 

D. p. insularis, 
Sumatra. Go I= 150 ee 130-188 ,, 
Die peliaili- 139) 1281. 
Borneo. dg. 134-140 ,, 125-134 ,, 
ey ane fee 124 ee 
D. p. wallacer. 143-150 ,, 150-160 ,, 


Material examined. Four specimens from Java and about 
fifteen from each of the other localities. 


Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker sent descriptions of the following 
four new races of Oriental Owls :— 


Athene noctua ludlowi, subsp. nov. 


In general colour intermediate between A. n. noctua and 
A. n. bactriana—in fact, very similar to A. n. plumipes from 
Shensi, China, but decidedly bigger than that bird, which 
has a wing between 160 and 165 mm. The amount of 
feathering on the toes varies considerably, both individually 


59 [ Vol. xlvii. 


and seasonally, but in winter most birds have the plumelets 
extending down the toes almost to the base of the claws. 

Colours of soft parts. Iris yellow; bill bright yellow ; 
legs grey, soles yellow (/. M. Bailey). 

Measurements :—4 8, 2 2. Wing 169 to 173 mm. ; tail 
88 to $6 mm. ; tarsus 31 to 32 mm.; culmen 18 to 20 mm. 

Distribution. Tibet. A bird from the Mishmi Hills is 
nearest to the present race, but is smaller (wing 164 mm.), 
and rather darker. 

Type in British Museum. 6. Dochen, Rhamtso Lake, 
Tibet, alt. 15,000 ft., 10.12.23. Collected by F. Ludlow, 
No. 40. Brit. Mus. Reg. No. 1926.11.11.1. 


(FLAUCIDIUM CUCULOIDES. 


It appears to be imperative to divide this species into 
geographical races, for although individual variation is 
great yet there seem to be three dominant forms. One 
dark brown in the North-western Himalayas, a second 
rufous-brown from the Eastern Himalayas to the Shan 
States, and a third fulvous-brown from Tenasserim. We 
have therefore 


GLAUCIDIUM CUCULOIDES CUCULOIDES. 

Noctua cuculoides Vigors, P. Z.S. 1831, p. 8. 

Simla—Almora Districts. 

The general tone dark brown ; the barring on the lower 
plumage very heavy and dark. 

Measurements :—Wing 145 to 162 mm.; tail 79 to 90 mm.; 

tarsus about 24 to 26 mm.; culmen about 19 to 20 mm. 
Distribution. Lower Ranges of the North-west Himalayas 
from Murree and Mussoorie, through the Simla States and 
Garhwal to Wastern Nepal. 


Glaucidium cuculoides rufescens, subsp. nov. — 


A very much more richly coloured bird than the typical 
form, the prevailing tint being rufous-brown, the under parts 
showing this tint even more than than the upper. 

Measurements :—Wing 141 to 162 mm. 


Vol. xlvii. | 60 


Distribution. Bhutan Dooars, Assam to the east of the 
Dibong and south of the Brahmapootra River; Manipur ; 
Tippera and Chittagong in Hastern Bengal; Northern 
Burma to Pegu; North and South Shan States. 

Sikkim birds are pale and large, more fulvous, and not 
unlike the next race, and more material may show that these 
high-elevation birds must be divided as a fourth race. For 
the present I retain them here. 

Type in British Museum. . Noong-zai-ban, Manipur, 
2nd Feb., 1881. Coilected by A. O. Hume. Brit. Mus. 
Reg. 86.2.1.849. 


Glaucidium cuculoides fulvescens, subsp. nov. 


Differs from the preceding two races in being paler and 
also in being more fulvous, especially on the lower plumage, 
in its general tone of coloration. The breast is nearly always 
less heavily barred, whilst the streaks on the abdomen are 
better defined and encroach on the breast. 

Measurements :—Wing 134 to 150 mm., once 153 mm. 

Distribution. Tenasserim. 

Type in British Museum. @. Kolidoo, Tenasserim, 3rd 
Feb., 1874, ex Hume Coll. Brit. Mus. Reg. 86.2.1.858. 


Large series examined. 


Ninox scutulata isolata, subsp. nov. 


Similar to Ninow scutulata affinis, but much larger; wing, 
185 to 205 mm. as against 167 to 169 in the Andaman bird, 
culmen 22 mm. in the present race against 20 in J. s. 
affinis. 

Distribution. Nicobar, Trinkut, Camoorta Islands. 

Type in British Museum. 6. Car Nicobar, 19th Mar., 
1873. Collected by V. Ball. Hume Coll., Brit. Mus. 
Reg. 86.2.1.621. 

Material examined. 8 2, 2? 4, unsexed 2. 

Norre.—The Nicobar birds seem to be a little browner with 
less ashy tint on the head and back, but the difference is 
slight and not of itself of subspecific value. 


61 [ Vol. xlvii. 


Mr. P. F. Bunyarp exhibited a remarkable clutch of four 
eggs of the Goshawk (Astur gentilis gentilis) from Sonnen- 
burg, collected on April 14, 1903, and made the following 
remarks :— 

This exceptionally well-marked clutch came from a well- 
known German collection, the ground-colour is typical, the 
so-called pigment, however, is not wholly superimposed, as 
I have proved by internal illumination. 

In addition to the markings on the upper lime-layer, I 
found well-defined markings on the coherent lime-layer, and 
the mammille-layer*, a most unusual occurrence in the 
egos of this species. The faint havana-brown spots which 
occasionally occur are usually superimposed. | 

Measurements. 56-58 x 43°4-45 mm. (97 x 44°7 mm., 
Rey). 

Weights. 5°121-5°877 m.g. (5°105 m.g., Rey). 

A. A. Van Pelt Lechner, ‘Oologia Neerlandica,’ in his 
treatment of the family Falconide, in referring to the eggs 
of A. gentilis gentilis, says :—“ Eggs with red-brown pig- 
ment spots situated at the surface (in layer III.) are as rare 
as they are in Circus eruginosus, Marsh-Harrier.” 

From Rey’s description, however, it appears without doubt 
that this author had seen eggs exhibiting small light havana- 
brown spots on layers I. and II. 

The greyish or yellowish cloudy markings which Rey men- 
tions I hold to be locally thickened portions of the upper 
membrane (=layer ILI.). I have seen eggs in which this 
membrane seemed to me to be mixed with a very much 
diluted quantity of oorhodein and to be coloured a very light 
yellow by it. 

Otherwise I regard what has been said above respecting 
accessory and pigment spots in the case of C. wruginosus to 
apply equally here. 

Personally I have not yet seen eggs of C. eruginosus with 
genuine pigment-markings. 


* ‘Oologia Neerlandica,’ A. A. Van Pelt Lechner, vol. ii. 


Vol. xvii. | 62 


Mr. A. L. Buruer exhibited a Humming-bird from 
W. Ecuador, which he was unable to assign to any known 
species and for which he proposed the name 


Eriocnemis soderstromi, sp. nov. 


Nearest to the rare Hriocnemis godini (Bourc.) of Hastern 
Keuador, but differing as follows :— 

Forehead greenish-blue, crown much darker and more 
bronze than the back, turning to velvet-black when viewed 
from in front, whereas in J. godini the forehead and crown 
are of the same colour as the back, remaining green when 
viewed from in front ; back of a darker shade ; lower rump 
and upper tail-coverts dark steel-blue, only margined with 
green (in LE. godin they are entirely shining grass-green) ; 
blue throat-patch much larger, and lower surface darker 
without the strong golden gloss of . godin. 

Wing 66 mm.; culm. 20°5; tail 46 with depth of fork 19. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢ ad. Nono, Western side 
of Pichincha, Ecuador, 1.90. Collected by L. Séderstrém. 
Reg. No. 97.11.12.98. 

Note on Laset.—“ Only one specimen found.” 


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Wo. CCCX. 


Tue three-hundred-and-fifth Meeting of the Club was held 
at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W. 1, 
on Wednesday, December 8th, 1926. 


Chairman: H. F. W1irHERBy. 


Members present :—H. C. Stuart Baker; D. A. BANNER- 
mMaN; Dr. F. J. F. Barxinaron; Miss M. G. Best; P. F. 
Bunyarp; A. L. Butter; Hon. G. CHarteris; J. L. 
CuawortH-MustErs; Col. STEPHENSON R. CLarkE; Sir 
P. Z. Cox; A. H. Evans; A. Ezra; Major 8.8. Flower; 
Hon. M. Hacuisuxa; Dr. E. Harrert; Rev. F. C. R. 
Jourpain; N. B. Kinnear (Editor); J. Spepan Lewis ; 
Dr. T. G. Lonestarr; Dr. G. C. Low (Hon. Sec. ¥ Treas.) ; 
Dr. P. R. Lowt; C. W. Mackwortu-Prarp; Dr. P. 
Manson-Banr; G. M. Marurws; Dr. W. N. May; 
EK. G. B. Meapn-Waupo; Mrs. A. C. MBINERTZHAGEN ; 
Col. R. MurnertzHacen; T. H. Newman; C. OLDHAM ; 
C. H. Pearson; G. H. R. Pyz-Smirax; F. R. Rartciirr ; 
C. B. Ricxett; Dr. B. B. Riviere; W. L. Scuater ; 
D. Sera-SmirH; H. Srevens; Marquis or Tavistock ; 


{ December 29th, 1926. ] VOL. XLVII. 


Vol. xlvii. | 64 


Dr. C. B. Ticknurst; B. W. Tucker; H. M. Wattis; 
C. pe Worms. 

Visitors :—F. H. Epmonpson; Dr. O. KiErscumipt ; 
G.E. Lopgze; K. F. M. Murray; Miss Franczs Pirr; Mrs. 
Rose Haicu THomas; EH. Vatpy; Mrs. K. H. I. Vaupy. 


Dr. O. Kuernscumipt exhibited a male of the rare Hum- 
ming-Bird (Oxypogon stibelit) Meyer, together with the other 
known species of the genus Owxypogon. Dr. Hartert ex- 
plained that hitherto nothing was known of O. stdbeli than 
the type (a female in the Dresden Museum), and an imma- 
ture male and a female in the New York Museum. The 
adult male was one of the three collected hy the late traveller 
Fassl on Mt. Tolima, in Colombia. Dr. Kleinschmidt 
regarded all the forms of Oxypogon as a beautiful example 
of one ‘‘ Formenkreis.” 


Dr. Kurrmnscumipt further said that he dissected three 
specimens of the so-called Pavo nigripennis, a mutant (only 
known in captivity) of the Common Peacock, and found 
that they had all tuberculous bones. He would like to know 
if there was any connection between the illness and the 
nigripennis coloration. 


Mr. P. F. Bunyarp made the following remarks on the 
eggs of the Northern Golden Plover (Charadrius a. alti- 
frons) from Iceland and the Feroes :— 


When in the Feroes in 1905, I was not aware that the 
local form of Golden Plover was considered to be distinct, 
otherwise I should have collected a longer series of eggs, as 
the birds were very plentiful, though I noticed that the 
plumage was remarkably fine, and called attention to this 
in ‘The Zoologist,’ No. 777, March 1906, p. 87. 

I collected only three clutches of four each, and give 
below their weights and measurements, together with a 
similar number from Iceland and a series of the southern 
form from Scotland and Yorkshire for comparison :— 


65 [ Vol. xlvii. 


Northern Golden Plover Southern Golden Plover 
(C. a. altifrons). 24 eggs. (C. a. apricarius). 24 eggs, 
Average 51:7 X35 mm. Average 52°8 36:1 mm. 
Max. 55x35 ,, Max. 655°8x35:2 ,, 
Min. 48x34, Min. 49x35'3 i, 
Weights. 

Average 1662 mg. Average 1°762 mg. 
Max...) :Soen; Max 4) jy 1972) 5) 
Min. 1-450 ,, Min. Tsbas ss, 


There appears to be no difference in the eggs, except that 
those of the Southern Golden Plover are slightly heavier, 
which is what one would expect, as C. a. apricarius is a 
trifle larger in size. 


Mr. P. F,. Bunyarp also exhibited a remarkable clutch 
of four Grey Phalarope (Phalaropus julicarius), from Spits- 
bergen, 15/7/90, taken by G. Nordenskiold, the Arctic 
explorer. 

Tie whole of the broad ends were heavily capped with 
rich brownish-black, the remaiuing portions being only 
slightly marked. 

A very similar elntch of Red-necked Phalarope (P. loba- 
tus) from Iceland was also exhibited. 

The greater breadth of the former is a fairly constant 
distinguishing characteristic. 


[The following note by Mr. Bunyard should have appeared 
in the October number of the ‘ Bulletin,’ but was omitted 
owing to a misunderstanding.—Ep. | 


Mr. Buxyarp made remarks on Mr. Jourdain’s criticisms 
(vol. xlvi. p. 124) of his exhibition of the eggs of Hreunetes 
pusillus and Erolia minutilla, in the course of which he said 
the five clutches from Labrador in his own possession from 
the Farn Collection were not actually taken or identified by 
the Rev. W. W. Perrett as stated by Mr. Jourdain, but were 
collected for him by different people, as shown by the data, 
tickets which he exhibited. These facts, Mr. Bunyard 
stated, were given in his original MSS., but were unfortu- 
nately struck out by the Editor. 

Mr. Bunyard further remarked that it should be made 
quite clear that he did not base his remarks on this material 
only, but upon the series as a whole, viz., the clutches from 


Vol. xlvii. | 66 


Newfoundland and Magdalen Islands in the Massey Collec- 
tion, and one from the U.S. National Museum taken by E. W. 
Nelson (an egg of which is figured by Poynting, pl. 34. fig. 6), 
and that he worked on this last clutch as his type. 

Three clutches from the Farn series and two from the 
Massey Collection, he pointed out, were exactly similar and 
agree with Nelson’s eggs, while two clutches from the former 
collection and two from the latter belong to the finely 
stippled form and are also exactly alike. 

He stated that in his opinion not one of the ten clutches 
of EH. minutilla which he had exhibited could possibly be 
confused with those of H. pusillus, which are larger and 
heavier, as his weights and measurements prove. 

Mr. Jourdain was not present when the original exhibit 
and remarks were made, and in view of the above facts 
Mr. Bunyard considered he was justified in including the 
Perrett series as /. minutilla. 


The Rev. F.C. R. JourDAIN communicated the following :— 


Recently Messrs. Lowe and Kinnear have come to the con- 
clusion that the Wagtails commonly grouped together as 
subspecies of Motacilla alba should be divided into two 
species, each with a group of subspecies, viz. M. alba L. and 
M. lugubris Temm. This is a matter which affects the names 
of our two British forms of Black and White Wagtails, as if 
this contention is accepted our birds become MM. lugubris 
yarrelliti Gould and M. alba alba L. As Mr. Stuart Baker 
has adopted this nomenclature and accepted the specific 
distinctness of the two forms in his last volume of the 
Avifauna of British India, and it is referred to by Lord 
Rothschild in his recent paper on the Birds of Yunnan, it 
may be worth while to make a few remarks on the subject. 

In the first place, my experience of closely allied species in 
the field is that they show distinctive characters in many 
ways. Acrocephalus scirpaceus and A. palustris is hardly a 
parallel case, as they breed side by side over large areas, and 
no one could possibly maintain from field-observation that 
they belonged to one species.  Muscicapa hypoleuca and 
M. albicollis is a better parallel, and here many little charac- 
teristics crop up which show that the two species differ in 


67 [Vol. xlvii. 


details of breeding-habits etc. But those who have watched | 
M. alba during the breeding-season from the Arctic Circle 
to §. Spain know that, except for the difference in coloration, 
it has exactly the habits, notes, and mental characteristics 
of our Pied Wagtail. The British Yellow and Blue-headed 
Wagtails have also identical notes, and their behaviour is 
also similar. On the other hand, the Carrion and Hooded 
Crows, which are by some ornithologists regarded merely as 
colour-phases of the same species, do show subtle differences 
in notes, habitat, etc. 

In the Avif. Br. India, Mr. Baker groups under the lugubris 
heading alboides (hodgsoni), maderaspatensis, and leucopsis. 

What is M. lugubris lugubris Temm.? It is a mixture of 
Pallas’s description of birds of Hast Siberia (lugens), others 
from France (yarrellu), and some from Hgypt (? vidua), and 
others from Hungary and the Crimea! It could he used 
for either yarrellu or lugens, but fortunately is preoccupied 
by M. lugubris Licht., 1819, which has a year’s priority. 

Of the three forms grouped by Mr. Baker under lugubris, 
one, maderaspatensis, dates back to Gmelin, 1789, while 
alboides and leucopsis date from 1836 and 1837, and the 
“nominat” form lugubris to 1820! It is obvious that if we 
are going to accept the black-throated Wagtails as a species 
they must be called maderaspatensss and our Pied Wactail 
will become MZ. maderaspatensis yarrellir! 

As showing the curious way in which errors are per- 
petuated, I may point out that MM. maderaspatensis is quite 
rightly omitted by Hartert in his Vogel. Pal. Fauna, i. 
Yet it appears in Dresser’s ‘ Manual of Palearctic Birds’ 
(although confined to India and not breeding above 3000! 
in the Himalayas) and also in the Brit. Mus. Cat. of Birds, 
x., by Sharpe, both authors including Turkestan in the 
breeding-range of this species on the strength of Severtzow’s 
statement in the ‘ Turkestan. Jevotnie.’ 


Mr. Gregory M. Maruews sent the following :— 
Cyrtostomus frenatus hachisuka, subsp. nov. 


Differs from C. 7. fawgaster, from New Ireland, in being 
darker on the upper surface and in having less orange on 
the under surface. The bill is slightly longer. 


Vol. xlvii.] 68 


Type in British Museum. ¢. Obi Island, 27th May, 
1902, ex. Coll. G. M. Mathews. Registered No. 1911.1.14.9. 


| Crytostomus frenatus olivaceus, subsp. nov. 
* Differs from the above in being darker and smaller. 
Type in British Museum. ¢@. Goodenough Island, 19th 
December, 1896. Collected by A. S. Meek. Registered 
No. 98.4.30.17. 


On p. 40 ante, add Mathews after Procellaria agilis. 


The Hon. Masacst Hacuisuxa sent the following de- 
scriptions of five new forms :— 

Anthreptes malacensis basilanicus, subsp. nov. 

This race is distinguished from A. m. chlorigaster of 
Negros in having the under surface more yellowish, the 
brown of the wing-coverts lighter in colour, and in the smaller 
size. 

Measurements :— 

A. m. chlorigaster. Negros. 3 3. Wing 71-72 mm. 
A. m. basilanicus. Basilan, Mindanao. 7 ¢. Wing 
67-71 mm. 

Type in British Museum. @. Basilan Is., Philippines, 
Nov. 19th. Collected by J. B. Steere. Registered No. 96. 
6.6.483. 

Material examined. Six examples from Negros and four- 
teen from Basilan. | 


. Anthreptes malacensis sanghirana, subsp. nov. 
Nearest to A. m. basilanicus, but differs from it and 
A. m. chlorigaster in having the wing larger and the under- 
parts of a more greenish than yellow tinge. 
Measurements :— 
A.m.sanghirana. Sanghirls. 2 9. Wing 74-75 mm. 
Material examined. Three from Sanghir Is. 
Type in British Museum. . Sanghir Is., Sept, 8th, 1876. 
Shelley Coll. Registered No. 1895.9.9.103. 


Leptocoma flammaxillaris annamensis, subsp. nov. 


Adult maie. Differs from the typical form in having the 
underparts greenish yellow and not clear yellow ; the female 
also has the underparts darker. 


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69 [ Vol. xlvii. 


Type in British Museum. Nhatrang, Annam, 2nd 
Oct., 1905. Collected by J. J. Vassal. Registered No. 
1906.12.5.69. 

Material examined. Two males, two juvenile males, and four 
females of L. f. annamensis, and a large series from Burmah 


and Malay of the typical form. 


Dicz#um cruentatum hainanum, subsp. nov. 


This race is distinguished from the Continental form 
D. ¢. coccineum by its smaller size, the browner throat, and 
the underparts without any olive tinge. In the female the 
underparts are more of a buffish than a greenish shade. 

Measurements :— 


D.¢. coceineum. 7 8. Wing 49-54 mm. ; tail 25-29 mm. 
ah, 10-52. .: 55 29-32 ,, 
D.¢c.hainanum. 68. 4, 48-50 2 », 24-28 ,, 
Ns (Uae ae EGR a ee 
Type in British Museum. §. Hainan, March 1868. 
Swinhoe Coll. Registered No. 1898.10.20.27. 
Material examined. Ten specimens from Hainan and a 
series from Southern China. 
Nore.—There ‘is one specimen from Hainan which is 
exceptionally large, with a wing of 52 mm. 


Excalfactoria chinensis cerulescens, subsp. nov. 


Males from Borneo and Sumatra have the upperside 
much darker, washed with slate-blue, the black markings 
larger, and the underparts of a stronger blue and -brown 
shade. 

Type in British Museum. Sarawak, Borneo. Col- 
lected by A. H. Everett. Registered No. 1878.5.20.38. 

Material examined. Five specimens from Borneo, two 
from Sumatra, and over twenty each of LF. c. chinensis and 
EH. ¢. rostrata. 

Notre.—The Celebes bird was separated by Gould as 
minima, but without a larger series—there are only three 
specimens, ¢ imm. (the type) and two females, in the British 
Museum—it is impossible to say whether this form should 
stand or not. | 
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Vol. xlvii.] 70 


Dr. P. R. Lowe exhibited an example of the rare Sharp- 
tailed Sandpiper (¥chmorhynchus cancellatus), which had 
been obtained by the Whitney South Sea Expedition, and 
made some remarks on its affinities. 


On behalf of M. Jean Delacour, Mr. Kinnear pointed out 
that the name Lanius colluroides melanocephalus, Bull. 
B. O. C. xlvii. p. 13, is preoccupied by Lanius melano- 
cephalus Gmelin, and proposed to substitute in its place 

Lanius colluroides nigricapillus, nom. nov., 
for the form of the Burmese Shrike found in 8. Annam. 


Dr. V. G. L. van SomeReEN sent the following description 
of a new subspecies of Woodpecker :— 

Campothera abingdoni kavirondensis, subsp. nov. 

In this race the spotting of the upperside is intermediate 
between that of the races suahelicus and mombassicus ; and 
differs from both in the much wider black streaks on the 
breast and flanks. In the male and to a lesser degree in the 
femaie, a black wedge-shaped patch extends from the chin 
to the upper breast. 

Type in my own collection. adult. Lolgorien, South 
Kavirondo, May 1925. 

Obs.—Seven examples of this race have been taken in the 
type-locality or near vicinity. 


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No. CCCXI. 


Tae three-hundred-and-sixth Meeting of the Club was held 
at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W. 1, 
on Wednesday, January 12th, 1927. 


Chairman: H. F. WITHERBY. 


Members present:—W.Suore Batty; D. A. BANNERMAN : 
Dr. F. J. F. Barniyeron; P. F, Bunyarp; Hon. G. L. 
CHarTeris; A. Ezra; Major S. S. FLowrer; Hon. M. 
Hacuisuxa; Rev. J.R. Hate; Dr. E. Harrerr ; Rev. F.C. 
R. Jourparn; N. B. Kinnear (Editor); Dr. G. C. Low 
(Hon. Sec. 5 Treas.); N.S. Lucas ; C. W. Mackxwortn- 
Praep; Capt. W. H. F. Macmmnan; Lt-Col. H A. F. 
Magcratu ; Dr. P. Manson-Banr ; G. M. Maruews ; Col. R. 
MEINERTZHAGEN; Mrs. R. MBEINERTZHAGEN ; C. OLDHAM ; 
G. H. R. Pyz-Smira ; ©. B. Rickert ; Lord Roruscuizp ; 
W. L. Scrater ; D. Seru-Smrra; Dr. CG. B. TICEHURST ; 
A. LanpsporoueH THomson ; H. Wuistier. 


Guests :—Sir H. Macnacuren ; Sir Sypyey Roprnson. 


[January 31st, 1927.) ’ VOL. XLVII: 


Vol. xlvii.] 72 


Colonel R. MEINERTZHAGEN exhibited a small collection of 
egos from Ladak. 

Among the most interesting were two eggs of an Hagle- 
Owl (Lubo bubo turcomanus) taken at Chimre in Ladak at 
11,900 feet on 19. v.25. This is the first time this race has 
been known to breed within Indian limits. 

A clutch of eleven eggs of Perdix hodgsonie caragane 
was also exhibited, along with a single egg which was laid 
in the hand by a wounded bird and another removed from 
the oviduct of a bird being prepared asa specimen. These 
eggs show the pale blue ground-colour which the egg receives 
on entering the oviduct, the commencement of brown pig- 
mentation on the prematurely laid egg and the complete 
brown pigmentation of the egg when it was laid under 
natural conditions. 


Mr. E. C. Stuarr Baker sent descriptions of the following 
new subspecies of Oriental birds :—- 


Alcedo meninting phillipsi, subsp. nov. 

This race is nearest to the true A. m. meninting from Java 
and the Malay States. Like that bird the bars of the head 
are deep purple-blue with no green tinge, the general tint is 
rich and dark and the lower parts deep ferruginous. The 
wings are boldly spotted with blue, a character not shown in 
any specimens of A. m. meninting. 

Colour of soft parts as in all the other races. 

Measurements. Wing 65 to 71 mm., bill 35 to 48 mm., in 
nearly all the wing is over 67 and the bill over 40 mm. In 
the Javan and Malayan form the wing is 60 to 68 mm., and 
the culmen almost invariably under and never exceeding 
40 mm. 

Distribution. Ceylon and South Travancore. A specimen 
from Pothanee, Madras, appears also to be of this race. 

Type in the British Museum: ¢, Cocoawatte Estate, 
Ceylon. Coll. by A. L. Butler, 12th May, 1895. Reg. No. 
1916.9.20.434. 

Material ecamined. Thirteen specimens of A. m. phillips: 
and a large series of the typical form. 


73 (Vol. xlvii. 


Amaurornis fuscus zeylonicus, subsp. nov. 

Very close to typical A. f. fuscus from the Philippines, but 
much paler and faintly tinged with yellowish-olive above. 
Although the individual variation is considerable, the darkest 
Ceylon bird is a trifle paler than the palest Philippine bird. 

Colour of soft parts as in other races. 

Distribution. Ceylon and the south-west coast of India 
from Travancore to Belgaum and Kanara. 

Type. Adult (no sex), in British Museum: Ceylon 
(A. Nevill). Tweeddale Coll. Reg. No. 89.11.3.86. 


Measurements of British Museum series of this species :— 


Wing. Bill. 

mm. mm. 
A «fo, FUSCU SE cae ate 87- 99 19-21 (14 examined). 
A. f. zeylonicus ... 87-96 19-20 (17 examined). 
A. fo Danerr Peer 97-110 21-24 (series). 


A. f. erythrothorax. 105-122 21-24 (series). 


Mr. N. B. Kinnear communicated cn behalf of Mr. B. 
Stegmann the following new races of Hastern Palearctic 


Birds :— 
Iynx torquilla intermedia, subsp. nov. 


Darker and, in the fresh plumage, more brownish than 
I. t. torquilla L. Black patterns of the upperside more 
developed, especially on the occiput, nape, and scapulars. 
Throat and chest of a darker buff, sharply set off from the 
white chin. The barring of the underside generally sharper 
and somewhat coarser. 

Size as in J. t. torqulla. Wing 82-89 mm. 

Type in Zool. Mus. Russ, Acad. Sci.: ¢ ad., near Tchita, 
S.E. Siberia, 24th August, 1925. Collected by B. Stegmann. 

Material examined. Twenty-five specimens, compared with 
eighty specimens of torquilla (from Europe, Russia and West 
Siberia) and eight japonica. | 

Distribution. South-eastern corner of Siberia and eastern 
part of Central Asia (specimens in the Zool. Mus. from 
Transbaicalia, southern shore of the Okhotski Sea, from 


Vol. xivii.] 74 


Amur, Ussuri, Eastern Mongolia, Upper Hoang-ho, and Nan- 
shan). 

Norg.—J. t. japonica, that has been identified up to now 
with the specimens from Hast Siberia, has the same deve- 
lopment of the black patterns, but the upperside is still 
browner and the underside a little more yellow. The size 
is much smaller, too. Wing 76-80 mm. 


Cyanopica cyanea tristis, subsp. nov. 


Darker and greyer generally than C. c. cyanea Pall. ; back 
light neutral grey to neutral grey (Ridgway, ed. 2, pl. lii.), 
against drab-grey to light drab (Ridgway, pl. xlvi.) in 
eyanea ; underside without any yellowish tint. Black of 
the crown with pure blue, instead of violet, reflections. 
Differences are equally striking in fresh as well as in worn 
plumage. 

Type in Zool. Mus. Russ. Acad. Sci.: ¢ ad., Kruchina 
near Tchita, S.E. Siberia, 9th May, 1925. Collected by 
B. Stegmann. 

Measurements. Wing 147-155 mm. (male), 138-147 mm. 
(female). 

Material examined. Four specimens compared with twenty- 
eight specimens of cyanea. 

Distribution. Probably all over S8.E. Siberia from Tchita 
as far east as the middle Amur; specimens in the Zool. Mus. 
from Tchita and from the lower Shilka. The area of the 
more brownish cyanea extends from the middle course of 
Selenga and Tchikoi, as far as Blagoveschensk and Ussuri- 
land, lying south of the area of tristzs ; still farther south as 
far as Kansu and eastern Nan-shan lives C. ¢. swinhoet Hart., 
which is still more brownish. 


Mr. H. WuiIsTLER communicated the description of a new 
race of Vulture :— 


Gyps indicus jonesi, subsp. nov. 
Differs from G. indicus indicus in the larger size, darker 
coloration, and thicker covering of the headand neck. The 


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body-plumage is a dull earthern-brown colour with faint 
shaft-streaks, this colour being duller and darker even than 
in either G. fulvus or G. himalayensis. The crop-patch is a 
more sooty-brown than in G. indicus, and the rump is brown 
slightly marked with white as opposed to the white rump 
flecked with brown in the typical form. The head is clothed 
with thick buffy-white hairs, and the neck with thick white 
down, as thickly as in G. fulvus and G. himalayensis. Ruff 
white tinged with buff, the feathers short’ and downy in 
character as in the typical form. Wing 700-750 mm. < 

Type in British Museum: ¢ ad., Margala range, Rawal 
Pindi district, 25th January, 1926. No. 6146. H. Whistler 
Coll. B.M. Reg. No. 1926.9.14.1. 

Obs. The breeding Vulture of the low hill ranges 1500- 
2500 feet between the Salt Range and the Indus, N.W. India. 
Nests in small colonies on rocky crags. 

Named after Mr. A. EH. Jones, who procured the first 
specimen. 

AE ¥ TI Oy ae f j eR tar 

The Hon. M. U. Hacursuxa sent the following communi- 
cation :—*‘ Count Gyldenstolpe has informed me that four of 
the new races described by me in the November ‘ Bulletin ’ 
have already been described as follows : 


“ Dendrobiastes hyperythrus taivanicus Hachisuka, Bull. 
B.O.C. xlvii. p. 52=Dendrobiastes hyperythrus innexa (Siphia 
innexa Swinhoe, Ibis, 1866, p. 394: Formosa). Type in 
Tring Museum. 

“« Hupetes macrocercus subrufus Hachisuka, Bull. B. O.C. 
xlvii. p. 54= Eupetes macrocercus bornensis Rob. & Kloss, 
Jour. Fed. Malay Mus. vol. x. 1921, p. 204. 

** Dissemurus paradiseus wallacer Hackisuka, Bull. B. O. C. 
xlvii. p. 58=issemurus paradiseus formosus (Dissemurus 
formosus Cab. & Heine, Mus. Heineanum, vol. i. p. 111, 
footnote, Jan. 1851). 

** Dissemurus paradiseus insularis Hachisuka, Bull. B. O. C. 
xlvii. p. 58=Dissemurus paradiseus brachyphorus (Edolius 
brachyphorus Bonap. Consp. Gen. Ay. vol. i. p. 351, May 
1850).” 


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Mr. Hacuisuxka also described a new race of the Italian 
Sparrow from Corsica :— 


Passer itale payni, subsp. nov. 

The Italian Sparrows from Corsica are distinguished 
by their darker coloratien and smaller size. The latter 
character has already been pointed out by Parrot (Ornith. 
Jahrbuch, xxi. p. 141). 

The mantle of the male is more greenish than buffish, 
and the tail-feathers are also darker. 


lialy....... 7S, 78-81 mm. 4 9, 75-78 mm. 
Corsica... 7 6, 76-77 mm. 8 9,75 mm. 


I have named this new race in honour of Lt.-Col. W. A. 
Payn, who very kindly supplied me with a series from 
Corsica. 

Type in Lt.-Col. Payn’s Collection: ¢, Corté, Corsica, 
9:12.1925. 

Obs. Both Lt.-Col. Payn and myself have visited Corsica 
on several occasions, but we did not meet with the Spanish 


Sparrow. 


NOTICES. 


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South Kensington, S.W.7, and to give him their MSS., for 
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1927, in conjunction with the British Ornithologists’ Union, 
will be devoted principally to the exhibition of Lantern-slides. 
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who has slides to exhibit, in order that the necessary 
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Tat three-hundred-and-seventh Meeting of the Club’ was 
held at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Bas Portland Street, 
W.1, on Wednesday, February 9th, 1927. 


Chairman: H. F. Wiruersy. 


Members present :—E. C. Sruarr Baker; F. J. F. 
Barrineron ; Count Bosrinskoy; P. F. Bunyarp; A. L. 
Burier; Col. 8. R. Crarke ; Sir Percy Cox; A. H. Evans } 
Major g, S. FLownr ; Hon: M. wee Rev. J. R. 
Hate; Dr. E. Hessen Rev. F. C. R. Mowity sae Nu. Ba 
ecman (Editor); J. cone Lewis; Dr. G. C. Low 
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Prarep; Dr. P. Manson-Banr; G. M. Marurws jth} Giiie 
MrapvE-Watpo; Col. R. MEeINERTZHAGEN; Mrs. R. Mer- 
NERTZHAGEN ; J. L. Cuaworta Musrers; C. OLDHAM ; 
G. H. R. Pyz-Surru; F. R. Rateuire ; C. B. Rickert ; 
Lord Roruscuitp; D. Sera-Surru; Major A. G. L. 
S~aDEN ; Marquis or Tavistock; A. LANDsBOROUGH 
THomson ; B. W. Tucker; L. J. Torture. 


Guests :—W. B. Atexanper; P. W. T. Boucuron- 
Leigh; A. H. Pacer-Witxrs; Lt.-Col. W. A. Payn ; 
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{ February 26th, 1927.] a VOL, XLVII. 


Vol. xvii. | 80 
Mr. W. B. Auexanper, Vice-Pres. R.A.O.U., gave a 


short account of some of the habits of Australian Bower- 
birds (Ptilonorhynchidz). In this group of birds, related 
to the Crows, the acquisitive habit seen in the Jackdaw and 
Magpie reaches an elaborate development, though it is 
interesting to note that among the Bower-birds themselves 
the Cat-birds (Ailuredus) are not known to collect any 
objects. Thenearly related Tooth-billed Bower-bird (Sceno- 
peetes) clears an area on the ground and on it spreads out 
a number of leaves with their paler under surfaces upper- 
most. When they wither they are removed and fresh leaves 
substituted. Between this comparatively elementary habit 
of play and the elaborate habits of the other species there is 
a big gap. All other Australian species build definite 
structures (bowers), within or around which they spread 
objects of various kinds collected in the vicinity. The 
Regent-bird (Sericulus) appears only rarely to make a bower, 
and when it does so it is similar to that of a Satin-bird 
(Ptilonorhynchus), but smaller and of inferior workmanship. 
Does this mean that this species is losing the bower-building 
habit, or is it in process of acquiring the habit ? On account 
of the great difference between its bill and that of other 
Bower-birds, Mr. G. M. Mathews has suggested that it is 
not really a member of the family, and has learned to build 
a bower in imitation of a true Bower-bird. 

The Satin-bird’s bower is a passage-way of sticks set into 
a platform of sticks placed on the ground. On the platform 
around the bower objects of various kinds are spread out, 
A collection of these was exhibited, and the speaker 
emphasized the fact that similar objects, as far as they were 
obtainable in the distriet, would be found at the bower of 
any Satin-bird, the types of objects collected being quite 
characteristic of the species. 

These objects fall into Four classes: (1) blue or purplish- 
blue—flowers, feathers of the Parrot (Platycercus elegans), 
blue glass and china, blue-bags and blue papers ; (2) greenish- 
yellow or pale yellowish—flowers, withered leaves (placed 
with the yellowest side up), greenish glass and china; 


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(3) brown—snail-shells, pupa-cases of cicadas, cast snake- 
skin, puff-balls ; (4) bright or shining—oyster-shells, tinfoil. 
The flowers are removed when they wither and new ones 
obtained. 

A similar collection of objects from bowers of the Spotted 
Bower-bird (Chlamydera maculata) was exhibited. These 
also fall into four classes: (1) white—bleached bones, 
bleached snail- or mussel-shells, bleached shells of Emu’s 
egos, quartz pebbles, fragments of telegraph insulators ; 
(2) dark green—unripe fruits, berries, and seed-pods, Emu 
ego-shells, green bottle-glass; (3) dull olive—smooth 
pebbles, mussel-shells, dead millepedes; (4) bright or 
shining—clear glass, bits of wire and tinfoil. The green 
fruits and berries are removed as soon as they turn yellow 
or red. 

Both species at once reject red or bright yellow objects 
placed at their bowers. 

The passage-way of the Spotted Bower-bird is not built 
on a platform, but the sticks and grass-stems of which the 
walls are composed are stuck into the ground. The sticks 
used are short and serve mainly as supports for the long 
erass-stems. The tops of the sticks sometimes form a shelf, 
along the inside of which the bird places some of its special 
treasures. 

Tt has recently been found that certain Satin Bower-birds 
in the Sydney National Park at Port Hacking, N.S.W., 
paint the sticks on the inner faces of their bowers with a 
black material. The origin of the substance used has not 
been discovered, but the bird has been seen by Mr. Nubling 
with this material in its beak painting each stick in turn. 
Some blackened sticks from bowers in this locality were 
exhibited. The material is washed off by rain and is renewed 
by the bird. Bowers of this species which the speaker had 
inspected in (Jueensland showed no trace of similar decoration. 

Part of the wall of a bower of the Spotted Bower-bird 
found by Mr. D. W. Gaukrodger near Blackall, in Central 
Queensland, was also exhibited. On the inner face the 


grass-stems composing this bower, from the level of the shelf 
a2 


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of sticks as high as the bird could reach, had been stained 
with a reddish-brown colour. This was the only painted 
bower found by Mr. Gaukrodger, though he examined over 
fifty others in the district. 

This painting of the bowers by a few individuals of two 
species belonging to different genera raises an interesting 
problem. Did all Bower-birds formerly paint their bowers, 
and are those which practice the habit carrying on an. 
ancient custom now almost lost? Or are these individuals 
pioneers developing a new fashion? In the latter case it 
seems certain that the birds of the two species have inde- 
pendently invented this plan of decorating their bowers, as 
the Satin-bird inhabits the sub-tropical jungles near the 
coast, whilst the Spotted Bower-bird lives in the arid districts 
of the interior. 


Mr. C. Bopren Kuoss sent the following note :— 


THE NAMES AND Raczs oF THE RueD JUNGLE-FowL 
(Gallus gallus). 


In a recent paper Lord Rothschild, premising that the 
Red Jungle-Fow] has provoked an enormous literature but 
very few names, proceeds to add to the scanty total of the 
latter by proposing Gallus gallus robinsoni, nom. nov., for 
the Eastern bird (Nov. Zool. xxxiii. 1926, p. 206). In doing 
_ this he seems to have overlooked some remarks on the sub- 
ject by Mr. J. H. Ryley in Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. Ixiv. 1924, 
p. 9, from which the following is quoted :— 

“Robinson and Kloss (Records Indian Mus. xix. 1920, 
p. 13) have called attention to the fact that Linnzeus himself 
in the twelfth edition of the ‘Systema Natures’ (p. 270), had 
already restricted the type-locality to Pulau Condor, off the 
mouth of the Mekong, and this apples with equal force to 
the tenth edition (p. 158), where the same locality is given. 
In a later article Kloss (idem, p. 181) says: ‘ Nevertheless 
we cannot accept Phasianus gallus of the “Systema Nature ” 
as the name of the Red Jungle-Fowl, for Linneus had used 
it previously in the ‘Fauna Sueeica” for domesticated 


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Huropean birds, and it cannot be employed again for some- 
thing else.’ In this contention Kloss is in error: Linnzens | 
was non-binomial in the ‘Fauna Suecica’ until the 1761 
edition, and the names used there before that time have no 
standing. Now, as Linnzus himself restricted the type- 
locality by writing ‘India orientali: Pouli candor, etc.,’ 
when he named the species in the first work in which he was 
consistently binomial, and which is universally recognized as 
the starting-point of our modern nomenclature, it seems to 
me the three races of the Red Jungle-Fowl that have been 
recognized to date should stand as follows :— 

“(a) Gallus gallus gallus (Linnzeus), Syst. Nat. ed. 10, 
1758, p. 158 (Pulau Condor, off the mouth of the Mekong). 

“(b) Gallus gallus bankiwa Temminck, Pig. et Gall. 
vol. ii. 1813, pl. 87 (Java). 

“(c) Gallus gallus murght Robinson & Kloss, Records 
Indian Mus. vol. xix. 1920, p. 14 (Chirala, Gya District, 
Bihar). 

“The ranges will be the same as those given by Robinson 
and Kloss in the last paper cited above.” 

With this argument I now agree. And the question of 
domestic names does not arise: Gallus gallus is as though 
it had never been till applied to the Pulau Condor bird in 
1758, and Gallus gallus gallus is the name for the first of 
the three races we now recognize. 


M. Jean DeEtaconr sent the following note on Dryonastes 
maest -— 

I have just obtained a large series of Dryonastes maesi on 
the Fam-Dao Mts., in Central Tonkin. All the birds were 
collected above 3000 ft., where they are common, but they 
do not appear to occur at lower elevation. 

It is accordingly necessary to alter the last paragraph of 
my note on the species in the October number of the 
‘Bulletin’? (vol. xlvii. 1926, p. 23) and to fix the type- 
locality as the Fam-Dao Mts. 

Szechuan birds seem to me to be identical with the 
somewhat old and faded type-specimen of D. maesi, but it 


Vol. xlvii.] 84 


remains to be seen whether they will agree with the fresh 
series just obtained. 

I would also Jike to mention that M. P. Jabouille has 
collaborated with me as before in all the work of collecting 
and sorting the birds obtained during the Indo-Chinese 


Expedition of 1925-26. 


Mr. W. L. Scuater sent, on behalf of Dr. E. Hopkinson, 
the wing and tail of a Pintail Duck (Dajila acuta) shot at 
Sallikenni, Gambia, on 13th January, 1927. This is the 
first record for the Gambia and the coast of West Africa, 
and though the Pintail has been met with in the eastern side 
of Africa as far south as Tabora in Tanganyika Territory not 
infrequently, it had only been previously recorded from the 
western side by Dr. Hartert, who (Nov. Zool. 1924, p. 13) 
records a female obtained in the oasis of Bilma in the 
French Sahara on November 3rd, 1922, by Captain Angus 
Buchanan, and Mr. C. Francis obtained it in Bornu (‘ Ibis,’ 
1924, p. 523). 

The following is taken from Dr. Hopkinson’s letter :— 

“‘T shot last night, at Sallikenni, a Pintail Duck and a 
Garganey out of the same flock of hundreds, about a third 
of them Pintails. Garganeys quite common, but this is the 
first Pintail I have seen in Gambia. The record may be of 
interest. I send wing and tail to make certain. 

‘‘Gambia is a wonderful place for European birds in 
winter. Of other ducks, Wild Duck are quite common, 
Shoveler occasional, and I have twice seen flocks of Tufted 
Duck in November on the river. 

“Others are Common Snipe, occasionally; three shot one 
Christmas Day. Yellow Wagtails, White Wagtails, Whin- 
chats and Woodchat-Shrikes (in this order common) all 
winter birds here ; while in the first week of most Octobers 
the trees in Bathurst are full of Willow-Warblers and other 
similar birds.:* Turtle-Doves : flocks (large ones) often pass 
through on their way north, and smaller ones are sometimes 
seen but not obviously passing south, loitering about in 
November and December, but they never stay long any- 
where, either coming or going. 


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‘“‘ Waders are many and many must be Huropean, but I do - 
not know them well enough, but Purple Sandpipers, Godwits, 
and Curlew-Sandpipers I know are here in winter. Also 
Ring-Plovers. The Ring-Plover asi here I take to be 
from your ‘Systema’ C. peeuarius.” 


Mr. W. L. SctateR communicated descriptions of the 
following three new African Birds :— 


Buccanodon belcheri, sp. n. 


Description. g. Crown and nape, sides of the face, chin, 
throat, and upper breast shining black; on the back the 
black fades into dull olive-green on the middle of the back, 
wings, and tail; the primaries dusky, edged along their middle 
portion, also the secondaries, with a golden olive; below dull 
greyish-olive, a band of which colour extends forward on 
either side of the black breast to the ear-coverts. Iris dark; 
bill black; feet greenish black. 

Measurements. Length about 190 mm. ; wing 96 ; tail 60 ; 
exposed culmen 18; tarsus 24. 

The female closely resembles the male in plumage and 
dimensions (wing 94), but has a somewhat differently 
shaped bill, rather longer (exposed culmen 20) and more 
slender. 

Type in British Museum: <Q, obtained 5 Dec., 1926, on 
Cholo Mountain, Nyasaland, at 4500 feet by Mr. C. F. 
Belcher. No. 1927. | 

Norse.—A pair only of this very fine new Barbet was 
obtained recently in Nyasaland by Mr. C. F. Belcher, 
M.B.O.U., and presented to the Museum. It is a very 
distinct form, but appears to be nearest to B. olivaceum 
(Barbatula olivacea Shelley, ‘ Ibis,’ 1880, p. 334), of which 
there are three examples in the British Museum, the type 
from Rabai (near Mombasa) and two from the Uluguru Mts. 
in Tanganyika Territory. From this species our new Barbet 
differs in its larger size and the black of the head and breast, 
which in the case of B. olivaceum are brown and olivaceous 


respectively. 


Vol. xlvii.] 86 


Alethe choloensis, sp. n. 


Description. General colour above, including the crown 
and the sides of the face, wood-brown, slightly more dusky 
on the head and tail, the primaries blackish but edged with 
the wood-brown of the back, so that the wings when folded 
are like the back ; below the chin and throat clear white and 
well defined from the rest of the underparts, which are a 
dirty white becoming whitish in the middle of the belly and 
on the under tail-coverts; the outer tail-feather conspicu- 
ously terminated with a white tip and the three succeeding 
pairs of rectrices with a gradually decreasing white tip, the 
the central pair without white tips. Iris rich deep brown ; 
bill biack ; legs and feet pale flesh. 

Measurements. Total length (in skin) about 200 mm. ; 
wing 99 ; tail 77; culmen 17; tarsus 30. 

Type in British Museum. 9? obtained 30th Oct., 1926, on 
Cholo Mountain, Nyasaland, in forest by Mr. C. F. Belcher. 

Norzt.—Only the single type-specimen was sent. This 
handsome new species appears to be quite distinct from any 
other previously described. On the whole, it appears to be 
nearest to Alethe diademata, but is quite distinct as it lacks 
the characteristic rufous patch on the crown whence the 
West African form derives its name. 

Mr. Belcher, who is much to be congratulated on having 
obtained two such fine new species, has most generously 
presented the types and a further small collection of rare 
Nyasaland birds to the Natural History Museum. Among 
them is a second example of Callene macclounier, hitherto 
only known from the type described by Shelley in the 
‘Bulletin’ for 1903, also from Nyasaland. 


The White-Eye of Sierra Leone has hitherto been con- 
sidered identical with the typical race from Senegal, but 
it is obviously separable and may be described as follows :— 


Zosterops senegalensis leoninus, subsp. n. 


Differing from the typical race in its darker and more 
greenish back, while below, instead of being a bright yellow, 


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it is dull yellowish-green slightly washed with olive. The © 
forehead is slightly yellowish, but there is no well-marked 
frontal band, nor does the yellow extend over the eye as it 
does in some races. In size it does not appear to differ 
from the typical race, the wing averaging 53 mm. in males 
and 52 mm. in females. 

Type in the British Museum: ¢ collected by Robin 
Kemp at Bo, Sierra Leone, April 1904. Reg. No. 
#905.1.25.45. 

Distribution. There are in the Museum eight examples 
from Sierra Leone collected by Robin Kemp, Willoughby, 
Lowe, and Major Kellsall, and a single specimen from 
Agoulerie in Lower Nigeria also collected by R. Kemp. 

Notre.—The only White-Eyes from the Gold Coast in the 
British Museum are from the interior, and are undoubtedly 
Z. s. senegalensis. Probably those from the coastal districts 
are the same as the Sierra Leone ones. 


Dr. C. B. Ticzaurstr forwarded the following notes :—- 


i. Tae BaLucuistan Race or Halcyon smyrnensis 
smyrnensis. 


Dr. Laubmann has recently (Verh. Orn. Ges. Bay. xvii. 
1926, pp. 86-48) made a short review of the White-breasted 
Kingfishers (Halcyon smyrnensis), and has separated as a 
recognizable race H. s. zugmayeri, the Kingfisher of 
Beluchistan and N.W. India, and this he does on the shorter 
wing-measurement—119-124 mm., against 123-131 mm. in 
the typical form from Asia Minor. He does not say how 
many specimens he has examined, but it appears to me that 
this is still yet another example of creating new races on too 
little material. 

I have examined 17 specimens from Asia Minor (wing, 
$ ?, 120-130 mm.) and 38 specimens from Beluchistan to 
Punjab (wing, ¢ ?, 120°5-130 mm.). It will thus be seen 
that there is not the slightest foundation for making another 
race of the species—indeed, out of the 38 specimens examined 


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of so-called zugmayeri no less than 31 are within the range 
of wing-measurement of the typical race as given by him ! 
Though the range of wing-measurement in the two sexes is 
practically the same, females often are longer-winged and 
average 126 mm. against 124 mm. in males. 


2. Tum Racks oF THE INDIAN WartTE-HyE 
(Zosterops palpebrosa palpebrosa). 


The races of the Indian Zosterops and their distribution 
have long puzzled me, and the arrangement now given in 
the second edition of the ‘ Fauna of British India ’ in no wise 
tallied with my experience, but I have only recently been 
able to go thoroughly into the question. I have examined 
ever 300 Zosterops palpebrosa in coming to the following 
conclusions. 

Zosterops palpebrosa of Temminck (Pl. Col. 293, fig. 3, 
1824) was founded on a bird received from Dussumier from 
Bengal, and it is highly probable, as Dussumier was a French 
Mercantile Marine captain, that he got it at Chandernagore, 
near Calcutta. However, Bengal is certainly the type- 
locality. Temminck’s plate depicts, so far as one can tell 
from a plate, the darker greener type of palpebrosa, and 
this type certainly inhabits Bengal. In ‘The Ibis,’ 1922, 
p. 144, Mr. Baker has separated the bird from Sikkim as 
elwesi as brighter and more yellow above, paler below, and 
smaller than the Bengal bird. It is true that there is a 
brighter yellower form of palpebrosa in India, but it cer- 
tainly does not come from Sikkim, and, moreover, it is 
larger, not smaller, than the Bengal bird. Sikkim birds 
I cannot differentiate in any way from Bengal ones, and 
elwesi therefore becomes a synonym of palpebrosa. The 
brighter yellower bird then has no name, and I propose to 
call it 

Zosterops palpebrosa occidentis, subsp. nov. 


. Brighter and yellower, less green above than palpebrosa, 
and paler on the underparts. 


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Measurements. Wing, 6 2, 53-59 mm.; bill from base 
mostly 11°5-13 mm. 

Material examined. Highty-two specimens. 

Type in British Museum: ¢, Simla, 19th Oct., 1880. 
Hume Coll. No. 1886.12.1.1613. 

Distribution. N.W. Himalayas (Vale of Nepal westwards 
to Kashmir), N.W.F.P., Punjab, Sind (Karachi), W. United 
Provinces, Central Provinces east to Raipur, Rajputana and 
Bombay Presidency south to N. Kanara ; two from Mysore 
also appear to be this race. 

In the Nilgiris and Palani Hills occurs a Zosterops which 
certainly cannot be united with occrdentis, and it is too large, 
both in wing and bill, to unite with the typieal bird, though 
it is of the same darker greener type; for this I propose 
the name 


Zosterops palpebrosa nilgiriensis, subsp. nov. 


Much asin Z. palpebrosa palpebrosa, but larger. Wing, 
S 2,53 and 54°5-58 mm. ; bill from base 13-14 mm. 

Material examined. Twenty-one examples. 

Type in British Museum: @, Coonoor, 28th Jan., 1881. 
Collected by W. Davison. Hume Collection. No. 1886.12. 
1.1690. 

Distribution. Nilgiri and Palani Hills, and ? Andamans. 

Mr. Baker (loc. cit.) further separated the Assam bird as 
Z. p. cacharensis as having almost invariably a distinct 
yellow streak down the centre of the abdomen and being 
smaller than the typical race—wing 49-54 mm. Now I 
have examined Mr. Baker’s type and 61 skins from Assam, 
and I cannot see that the yellow abdominal streak is suf- 
ficiently constant ; in the type there is just the merest trace, 
and only 22 out of the 61 Assam birds show it. But this 
abdominal streak, or a trace of it, is found also in birds 
outside Assam, and in oceidentis it is only very occasionally 
seen. The wings of Assam birds measure, according to 
Mr. Baker, 49-04 mm., which is just about the range of 


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measurement I find in the typical race. I consider therefore 
that Z. p. cacharensis is also a synonym of palpebrosa. 

Turning now to the typical form, lack of material pre- 
vents the accurate sketching of the range southwards, birds 
from the east side of India and Hyderabad State being 
wanting. The following appears to me to represent the 
distribution, with the number of specimens examined :— 

Bengal (4), whole of Assam [including the Miri, Mishni, 
Naga, Garo, Khasia, and Tipperah Hills and Manipur] (62), 
Sikkim (31), Kauri Kachin (3), W. and N.W. Yunnan (20), 
S. Shan State (15), and Karenni (3). 

All these birds are of the darker greener type, and I 
cannot separate any of them. The measurements range 
from 49 to 55°5 mm. in the wing and 11°5 to 13 mm. in 
the bill. 

It is curious to find that a brighter and yellower bird 
than even occidentis inhabits Ceylon (Z. p. egregia: wing 
53-57 mm., bill 12-13°9 mm.—9 specimens) and also the 
Laccadives (wing 55-57 mm., bill 12°5-13°5 mm.—6 ex- 
amined), Ceylon races, as a rule, being darker than Northern 
Indian. The Nicobars are inhabited also by a recognizable 
race (Z. p. nicobariensis : wing 50-53°5 mm., bill 13-14 mm. 
—17 examined), a dull greenish bird with a long, rather 
stout bill. The bird from the Andamans has an equally 
large bill, but the wings are longer, 52-56 mm., and it is 
doubtful if these can be satisfactorily separated from the 
Nilgiri, bird, though the latter seem, on the whole, a trifle 
brighter on the upper parts. 


Mr. Grecory M. Maruews described a new race of small 
Kin gfisher :— 


Micralcyone pusilla masauji, subsp. nov. 


Differs from WM. p. aole Ogilvie-Grant in being of a deep 
purplish blue on the upper surface ; the blue on the chest 
forms a band. 

Type in British Museum. Wood Harbour, New Ireland. 
Collected by the Rev. G. Brown. Reg. No. 1881.3.29.94. 


of _ | Vol. xkvil. 


The Hon. M. U. HacuisuKka exhibited and made remarks 
on a variety of a Common Guinea-F ow] :— 


Only two types of colour-variation were hitherto known 
among our domesticated Guinea-Fowl, albinos and violet- 
coloured, the former being the commonest. The present 
specimen is melanistic with the back blackish-slate and 
the rest of the body black with a strong gloss. It has no 
pattern at all, except on the abdomen, where a few white 
barrings are to be found. 

The primary feathers are normal, except the first and 
second, which are pure white. Colours of soft parts are the 
same as the normal domesticated Guinea-Fowl. 

This bird was killed in Cambridge on February 4th. There 


is apparently no record of a similar variation known. 


On behalf of Professor M. Menzbier, Mr. E. C. Sruart 
Baker exhibited a book of magnificent plates of a number 
of the Faleonidz, partly by our fellow-member, G. E. Lodge, 
and partly by B. Batazan. These plates, together with many 
photogravures, also exhibited, were intended to illustrate a 
‘Monograph of the Jer Falcons,’ and probably form the 
finest set of illustrations of any group of the Falconide ever 
produced. 

Mr. Stuart Baker read the following letter from Professor 
Menzbier in connection with the above exhibit :— 

‘“‘ Among my more or less finished ornithological researches, 
I have a complete memoir, written in English, a ‘ Monograph 
of the Jer Falcons from the Standpoint of Evolution,’ in which 
I describe the different variations and analyse the mutual 
relationships of Gennaia sacer, saceroides, milvipes, henderson, 
lorenzt, altaicus, Elierofalco gyrfalco, labradorus, islandus, and 
candicans. J have been engaged upon this work now for 
nearly 50 years and have gradually formed, for this Mono- 
graph, a collection of more than one hundred specimens of 
Falcons. This, in 1912, I handed over to the Zoological 
Museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. 

‘In my Memoir I have also brought together numerous 
data bearing on sexual dimorphism, convergent develop- 


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ment, and the progressive changes due to age in the 
different species of Jer Falcons. JI have likewise en- 
deavoured to work out the geographical distribution and 
to give a sketch of the probable geological history of these 
Falcons. Eleven chromotypes and seventeen phototypes, 
illustrating the types and the variability of the Jer Falcons 
have been executed for the Monograph. Some of the 
phototypes perished in 1912, but, luckily, they can be 
reproduced. 

“Considering my advanced age and weak state of 
health, I have not great hopes of seeing this work of mine 
in print, all the more so as it still needs 5 or 6 coloured 
plates, two phototypes, and a geographical map, which it is 
quite beyond my means to undertake. The 33 first plates 
were printed at my own expense—the chromotypes by Greve 
in Berlin and the phototypes in our Museum. Nevertheless, 
desiring that some record of my lifelong work may remain 
in the annals of Ornithology, and wishing at the same time 
to acquaint my foreign colleagues with the scientific results 
attained, Iam asking you to exhibit these plates at one of 
the meetings of the British Ornithologists’ Union.” 

The plates exhibited include Gennaia sacer, G. saceroides, 
(2), G. milvipes (2), G. lorena (4), G. altatea, Hierofalco 
gyrfalco, H. labradorus, and H. islandus. There is also one 
plate of heads and another of feathers, and 17 phototypes. 

The plates were very much admired, and in the discussion 
which followed the opinion was expressed that it would be a 
very great loss to Ornithology if Professor Menzbier’s work 
could not be published. Mr. Stuart Baker informed the 
meeting that a special meeting of the Committee of 
the B.O.U. would be called to consider whether a 
scheme could be drawn up either to publish or assist in 
publishing this work. 

Two photographs of a Frigate-Bird (f’regata ariel subsp. ?), 
killed at Charbarovsk, Eastern Siberia, were also exhibited 
on behalf of Professor Menzbier. This example is believed 
to be the first specimen actually obtained in the Paleearctic 


Region. 


93 [ Vol. xlvii. 


Messrs. H. C. Ropinson and C. Bopen Kuoss forwarded 
the following communication :— 


Various races of Oriental birds described in a recent 
number of the ‘ Bulletin’ (antea, pp. 52-60) appear to call 
for remark. 


DENDROBIASTES HYPERYTHRUS SUMATRANUS (p. 52). 


The type-set of this race formed part of our own very large 
series, of which the bulk is still in our hands. In the Korinchi 
Report (Journ. F.M.S8. Mus. viii. pt. ii. 1918, p. 160) we 
considered the advisability of naming the Sumatran form, 
but decided that individual variation masked any subspecific 
differences. 

Asa matter of fact, Sumatran females are richer coloured 
on the breast than in D. h. malayana, but our series of the 
latter is not very adequate. Some Sumatran males can be 
matched by others from the Malay Peninsula. The bill is 
certainly somewhat more robust than in other Indo-Malayan 
races. 


SETARIA ALBIGULARIS LEUCOGASTRA (p. 54). 


A pure synonym of Ophrydornis albogularis moultoni 
R. & K., Bull. B. O. C. xl. 1919, p. 17 (Type from Betong 
Saribas, S.W. Sarawak). The genus is, we think, not 
Timaliine at all, but Muscicapine. 


TURDINUS MACRODACTYLUS BAKERI (p. 55). 
Possibly justified: we have re-examined considerable 
series, including absolute topotypes of bakeri. Occasionally 


specimens answering to the northern form occur in the south 
of the peninsula. 


ZOSTEROPS AUREIVENTER PARVUS (p. 56). 


A synonym of Zosterops aureiventer media R. & K., Ibis, 
1923, p. 152. 


We have re-examined specimens of Z. a. media from 


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S. Sarawak and others from the north of the state and find 
no differences. The type of Z. a. parvus comes from only 
about 1000 feet altitude on Kina Balu, so that it is nota 
mountain form. The type-series of Z. a. media were from 
a very similar elevation in 8. W. Sarawak. 


BHRINGA REMIFER SUMATRANA (p. 57). 


Our very large series of both Javan and Sumatran birds— 
all measured in the flesh—show that birds from these islands 
cannot possibly be separated on size. The tail-rackets may 
show racial characters, but our Sumatran birds are singularly 
deficient in this respect, having much worn tails. 


DIsSEMURUS PARADISEUS WALLACEI (p. 58). 


A pure synonym of Dissemurus formosus Cab, Mus. Hein. 
1. 1850, p. 111 (footnote). 

We have a very large series from all parts of Java. The 
tail is certainly not longer than those of the Continental 
races (D. p. paradiseus comes from Siam), and the crest has 
a lesser, not ‘‘ greater development.’ Perhaps it has been 
compared with the Bornean D. p. brachyphorus, regarding 
which these statements are true. 

[ Messrs. Robinson and Kloss also point out that Dissemurus 
paradiseus insularis and Hupetes macrocercus subrufus have 


already been described, cf. p. 75, ante.—LHD. | 


GLAUCIDIUM CUCULOIDES FULVESCENS (p. 60). 


On dimensions Mr. Stuart Baker has apparently made out 
a case for the separation of this race, though it is unfortunate 
that he has selected as type a specimen from the extreme 
northern verge of the range. In 1922, in default of northern 
material, we refrained from recognizing it (Journ. Nat. 
Hist. Soo.) Siam, a. 1922, p. 113), | fi distmeieat wall 
undoubtedly have to bear Parrot’s name, Athene cuculoides 
brugelt (Ornith. Gesellschaft in Bayern, viii. 1907, p. 104 
(Bangkok)). 


95 [Vol. xlvii. 


We have it from Peninsular Siam, ‘Cochin China, and > 
S. Annam. To the north (Tonkin ete.) it probably inter- 
grades with G. ¢. whitleya Blyth (‘ Ibis,’ 1867, p. 313), the 
type of which came from China; the race is stated to 
migrate south in winter. The number of bars on the tail 
is a rather variable feature, but northern birds appear to 
have more. 


PICUS VIRIDANUS MERIDIANUS. 


Ibis, 1926, p. 689. 

After traversing these races of other authors Kloss has to 
place himself in loco penitentit. 

The above name has to give place to 


Pious (GEcINUS) WEBERI Miiller, 


described at length from Junk Seylon (‘Ornis Salanga,’ 
1882, p. 69). 3 


ERRATA TO ‘BULLETIN,’ No. CCCVIIL, 
OcToBER 138, 1926. 


Page 8, line 9, for laotinus read laotianus. 
» 8, 5, 27, for neveni read neveui. 
» 9, 5 6, for Neven read Nevu. 
15, , 5 & 8, for Noug-Het read Nong-Het. 
» 19, ,, 26, for Thua-Lua read Thua-Luu. 
» 20, ,, 11, for lighter read brighter. 
» 20, , 19 & 21, for Noug-Het read Nong-Het. 


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NOTICES. 


Combined B.0O. U. and B.0.C. Dinner. 


The next Meeting of the Club will be held on Wednesday, 
March 9th, 1927, at PAGANT’S RESTAURANT, 42-48 Great 
Portland Street, W.1. The Dinner at 7 p.m. Members are 
reminded that this Dinner is held conjointly with the Annual 
Dinner of the B.0.U., and that they are allowed to bring 
Lady Guests. 


The Meeting will be devoted to the exhibition of Cinema 
Films and Lantern Slides of various Ornithological subjects. 


Members intending to dine must inform the Hon. Secretary, 
Dr. G. C. Low, 86 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, W.1, in 
order that the necessary seating arrangements may be made. 
Failure to do so may result in no seat being available, as the 
accommodation has to be arranged beforehand They need not 
notify the Secretary of the B.0.U.as well, one notice being 
sufficient. 


No. CCCXITTI. 


Tae three-hundred-and-eighth Meeting of the Club was 
held at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, 
W. 1, on Wednesday, March 9th, 1927, in conjunction with 
the Annual Dinner of the British Ornithologists’ Union. 


Lord Roruscartp, the President of the B.O.U., took | 
the Chair during the Dinner ; and 


Mr. H. F. Wiruersy during the subsequent proceedings. 


Members of the B.O.C. present :—W. Suore Batty ; 
C. E. Baxer; E. C: Stuart Baker; F. J. F. Barrine- 
ton; Miss M. G. 8. Brest; Count Boprinskoy; A. W. 
mony; P: Fo Bosyvarn: A: Lb. Bourtrer; Hon. G: DT. 
CHARTERIS ; Col. StrEPHENSON R. CLARKE; N. CoLrart; 
mir Percy Cox; Ra. Dean; A. H. Evans ;‘A. Ezra ; 
K. Fisher; Major 8. 8S. Fuowrer; J. M. Goopati; 
S. H. Harr; Dr. E. Hartert; Rev. F. C. R. Jourpary; 
-—N. B. Kinnear (Editor); G. C. Lampert; Dr. G. C. Low 
etter. Sec. & Treas, Ur. P. RR. Lown; N.'S. Lucas’; 
F. Luptow; C. W. Mackwortn-Prarp; Lt.-Col. H. A. F. 
MacratH; Dr. P. H. Manson-Banr; G. M. Maruews ; 
Col. R. MernertzHacen ; Mrs. MuinertzHacen; J. L. 
CuawortH Musters; C. OupHam; OC. E. PEraArson; 


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H. L. Poppam; G. H. R. Pyz-Suira; F. R. Rare irr ; 
R. H. Reap; OC. B. Rickert; Lord Roruscuinp; A. D. 
SapswortH; W. L. Sctater; D. Sera-Smiry; Sir Mar- 
comm Seton; Major A.G. L. Stapen ; J. W. C. STargs ; 
Capt. H. 8. STOKES ; ©. G. TatBot-PonsonBy ; A. LANpDs- 
BoRouGH THomson; Dr. C. B. Ticrnurst; B. W. Tucker ; 
Miss E. L. Turner; L. J. Turttze; H. Waistnae;, J. 
SrapEN Winc; H. F. WirHersy ; C. DE Worms. | 


Members of the B. O. U. present :—Miss BaRcuay Siva ; 
E. Biowett; H. B. Bootu; Dr. P. A: Buxton ; R. Cuis- 
uetr; K.J. A. Davis; J. 8. Dyson; F. H. Epmonpston ; 
H. Guapstone; W. E. Gueee; Miss Gopman; R. H. 
Hearn; L. M. Jortine; Brig.-Gen. H. R. Kenuam ; Miss 
E. M. Knope. ; Mrs. F. E. Lemon; HE. H. N. Lowrunr ; 
Miss F. Pirrr; E. F. Stanrorp; J. K. Sranrorp ; 
BE. Vatry ; Capt. Waup; Capt. W. Wesper ; T. WELLs. 


Guests:—Dr. AnistER; Mrs. ANIsTER; Miss Soren 
Barty; Mrs. E. C. Sruart Baker; Miss Baker; §&. J, 
Baker; A. Bett; P. Broventon-Leicn; Mrs. P. F. 
Bunyarp ; Miss Bunyarp; Mrs. Butter; Lady Gwen- 
pOLIN CuurcHILL; Miss Crargkson; Lady Cox; Miss 
Crospy; V. Davis; Mrs. FLower; Mrs. H. Guapstons ; 
Mrs. Guece; Dr. A. H. Harxness; Mrs. A. H. Harx- 
ness; Mrs. Hartert; F.J. Howreiti; J. Bertram Jonss ; 
Mr. F. E. Lemon; Mrs. G. C. Low; Mrs. P. R. Lowe ; 
Mrs. MackwortH-Pragep; Mrs. Nicot.; Col. Norron; 
Mrs. Norton; F. Pike; Mrs. H. L. PorpHam; Mrs. 
G. H. R. Pyve-Suira ; A. Rieser; Mrs. SarswortsH ; Mrs. 
W. L. Scuater; Lady Seton; W. J. SHouto Dovetas; 
Com. Skinner, R.N.; Mrs. A. G. L. StapEen ; Mrs. Lanps- 
poroguu THomson; Mrs. B. W. Tuckgr ; J. VINCENT ; 
Mrs. WausHe; Capt. Kincpon Warp; Mrs. Wavp; 
DucuHEss or WELLINGTON ; Mrs. WetsH; Mrs. WHISTLER; 
Mrs. SuapeN Wine; Mrs. WitHersy ; and eight others. 


99 [Vol. xlvii 


The Annual Dinner of the B. O. U., held in conjunction 
with the B.O.C., was not quite so large as last year, 144 
members of the Union, Club, and their guests attending, as 


against 151 in 1926. 


Mr. D. Sera-Smira commenced the evening with an 
exhibition of a very interesting cinema-film showing the 
wonderful display of the Argus Pheasant, taken by Mr. 
Martin Duncan in the Zoological Society’s Gardens. 


Mr. Cursterr showed a number of beautiful photographs 
of northern birds in their breeding-haunts, the results of his 
trip last year to Lapland. Among these were pictures of a 
Redwing feeding its young, Jack-Snipe and Broad-billed 
Sandpiper on their nests, and a Buffon’s Skua with its 


chick. 


Mr. J. H. Owen, unfortunately, was unable to be present 
and personally explain his interesting film of a female 
Sparrow-Hawk and her young, but sent some explanatory 
remarks, which were read by Dr. G. C. Low. The film 
showed the gradual growth of the chicks, how the mother 
feeds them and uses her body and wings to shelter them 


from the sun. 


On behalf of Mr. Scholey, Mr. P. F. Bunyarp exhibited 
a series of slides of a Cuckoo at the nests of Pied Wagtails 
in a quarry at Cliff-on-Hoe. These photographs were part 
of Mr. Scholey’s investigations into the egg-depositing habits 


of the Cuckoos. 


The evening was brought to a close by Mr. E. H. N., 
LowtTHER, who showed a number of photographs of Indian 
birds, often taken under very trying conditions, which 
included Jacana chicks running about on the leaves of 
water-lilies, young and eggs of the Skimmer, and young 


Open-billed Storks in the nest. 


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The Rev. F. R. C. Jourpatrn sent the following note :— 


At the meeting of the B.O.C. on February 9th, Mr. 
Stuart Baker exhibited a photograph of a Frigate-bird 
(Fregata ariel subsp.?) on behalf of Prof. Menzbier, and 
stated that it was believed to be the first specimen obtained 
in the Palearctic Region. As this statement has now 
appeared (p. 22), it becomes necessary to record that in 
January 1792 a Frigate-bird was obtained in Germany, 
on the Weser, near Munden, and was recorded by Bech- 
stein (Naturgesch. Deutschlands, 2nd ed. ili. p. 786). On 
this evidence it is figured in the Neuer Naumann xi. pl. 3. 

Hartert, in his Vog. pal. Fauna, p. 1408, refers to this 
and also to a second specimen in Van Kempen’s collection 
at St. Omer, stated to have been obtained near Dunquerque, 
but without exact date. 

Seebohm, in ‘ The Ibis’ for 1884, p. 33, under the name 
of “ Attagen minor,” records a specimen of the Lesser 
Frigate-bird in a collection from Hakodadi, Japan, and 
gives the wing-length as 21 in. This skin is still in the 
British Museum. In Ogawa’s ‘ List of the Birds of Japan’ 
(1906-08) ‘* Fregata minor” and “ F. aquila”’ are included, 
but no details are given. 

Uchida’s work on the same subject also contains articles 
in Japanese on both species, and /. ariel is figured there. 
Hachisuka’s List (1925) only contains F. ariel. The Japa- 
nese records were apparently overlooked by Hartert, as 
they are not referred to in the Vog. d. pal. Fauna. 


Mrs. A. MEINERTZHAGEN sent the following description of 
a new form of Egyptian Plover from Angola :— 


Pluvianus egyptius angola, subsp. nov. 
Distinguished from Pluvianus ewgyptius egyptius by its 
smaller size. | 
Wings of eight examined from Angola and Belgian 
Congo 125-131 mm. ; bill 23-24 mm. 
Thirty birds examined from Egypt and the Sudan have 
wings 132-144 mm., once 130 mm.; bills 23-27 mm. 


101 [ Vol. xlvii. 


Type in the Tring Museum: ¢, Cunga, Quanza River, 
Angola, 19/5/01. Collected by C. H. Pemberton. 

MNstribution. Angola and Belgian Congo. Birds from 
West Africa appear to be intermediate in measurement 
between P. w. egyptius and P. e. angole. 

Material examined. Six from the Quanza River and one 
from Belgian Congo (Leopoldville). 

Measurements of two birds from the Quanza River in the 
Berlin Museum are also included. 


Col. R. MEINERTZHAGEN communicated the description of 
a new race of Snow-Partridge from Szechwan :— 


Lerwa lerwa major, subsp. nov. 

Differs from Lerwa lerwa of Sikkim and Nepal in size 
only. Nine adult males from Szechwan have wings 190- 
203 mm. (usually over 194) and true culmens 25-28 mm. 
41 adult males from Sikkim and Nepal have wings 179-194, 
twice 197, and ence 200 mm. (usually under 193) and true 
culmens 21:5-26 mm. 

Type in the British Museum: ¢@, Ta-Tsien-Lu, Szechwan, 
1890. Reg. No.96.1.1.490. Collected by A. E. Pratt. 
Wing 193, culmen 28 mm. 

Lnstribution. Above tree-level in Szechwan and Moupin. 


Mr. KE. C. Stuart Baker forwarded the following remarks 
on Oriental birds and described two new subspecies :— 


Polihierax insignis cinereiceps, subsp. nov. 

Similar to P. 1. insignis, but with the back a very much 
darker blackish-grey, contrasting strongly with the paler 
whiter head of the male and with the chestnut head of the 
female. The lower parts are pure white, with no dark streaks 
on the flanks or breast and the central tail-feathers are un- 
spotted black. 

This race has hitherto been considered to be merely the 
oldest stage of plumage of P. 2. insegnis, but I do not think 
this is really the case. All these dark birds come from 
Myawadi or adjoining districts in Tenasserim, while all the 
paler birds are from north of Tenasserim. There are in the 


Vol. xlvii. | 102 
British Museum two beautiful specimens of what appear 
to be old males from lower Chindwin, and these, though they 
approach cinereiceps in the pale colour of the head, have the 
upper parts but little darker than the head itself. Again, 
the oldest northern Burmese females, so old that the chest- 
nut heads have practically lost all the dark striations, show 
no approach in depth of colour to two, apparently younger, 
females from Tenasserim with heavily-striated heads. As 
regards the central tail-feathers, it must be noted that 
northern female birds in the first plumage have the central 
tail-feathers spotted with white just as much, but no more 
than, the adults ; indeed, the two birds with the most boldly- 
marked central tail-feathers are an old male and female 
collected by Fielden near Thayetmyo. It would be curious 
if of 17 specimens collected in the north all were young, 
whereas of the five southern birds in the British Museum 
and the five in Tring all were in the oldest stage. 

Colours of soft parts as in the typical race. 

Measurements. About the same as the typical form. 
Wing, ¢ 139-145 mm., ° 143-147 mm. 

Instribution. So far only known from the Thoungyeen 
Valley, Myawadi, and adjoining valleys in Tenasserim. 

Type in British Museum: ¢@, Myawadi, 20.1.77. Hume 
Coll., W. Davison. Reg. No. 85. 8.19. 2234. 

Material examined. P. 1. insignis 17 specimens, P. 2. cine- 


rewepsd 3d, 9 @. 


CERCHNEIS TINNUNCULUS. 

Recently Lord Rothschild has pointed out that the resident 
Southern Indian Kestrel differs from all other races in 
certain respects and seems to be a good subspecies. He has 
not, however, named it, leaving me to do this as soon as 
I should have reached the genus in the 4th volume of the 
‘ Avifauna of India.’ I have now worked through these little 
Falcons, and agree that the race from south India and Ceylon 
must be given a name, but, as my conclusions do not quite 
agree in all respects with those of Lord Rothschild, I give 
them here in full. 


103 [ Vol. xlvii. 


The material in the British and Tring Museums is ample - 
if number of specimens only mattered, but, unfortunately, 
a large number of these specimens have no date whatsoever, 
and, secondly, of the very large series which have dates the 
great majority were collected in the winter months when over 
all northern and much of continental India itself we have a 
most puzzling mixture of resident birds and migratory forms 
from Europe and Asia. If we examine Himalayan birds, 
it is apparent that there are many which cannot be 
differentiated from the European bird, a great number 
obviously darker than any specimens from Europe, a few 
intermediate between these two, and some which seem to be 
of a still darker race. 

Forms, named and unnamed, which we have to consider 
are as follows :— 


(1) C. tT. TINNUNCULUS. Sweden. 

(2) C. 7. saponicus. Japan. 

(3) C. T. DoRRIEsI. Sidimi, E. Siberia. 
(4) C. Tt. satuRATUS. Tenasserim. 

(5) C. rt. subsp. Southern India. 

(6) C. T. INTERSTINCTUS. Assam. 


The typical form undoubtedly occurs in India during the 
winter in the north-west Himalayas, Sind, Punjab, and the 
United Provinces. There are also quite typical specimens 
from Belgaum and a single skin from Bihar. Forrest, too, 
obtained a series from Yunnan, and it has occurred in south 
China. In tke western Himalayas we have a most curious 
mixture of forms, but the few Museum specimens killed in 
the breeding-season are all darkish birds if compared with 
European examples, and I have no doubt that our resident 
Himalayan breeding birds are a darker race than true 
tinnunculus. If so, what are they ? 

McClelland’s type of interstinctus from Assam is a very 
dark bird, darker than japonicus from the latier’s breeding 
area and darker than the majority of our dark north-west 
Himalayan winter birds. This dark specimen is exactly 
matched hy others from Assam, Bhutan, the Duars, and 
Nepal. Probably these are all birds from low altitudes— 


Vol. xlvii. | 104 


say, up to 6000 or 7000 feet. They are also matched by 
some from the north-west Himalayas, which include two or 
three obviously breeding specimens. Birds from Sikkim, so 
far as represented in the British Museum, are all with one 
exception of the paler race. It looks therefore as if all the 
birds breeding at lower levels in the Himalayas must be called 
interstinctus until we have material to show whether the north- 
west Himalayan birds can be separated from the north-east. 

C. t. saturatus, as shown by Lord Rothschild’s series and 
other specimens, is very close to interstenctus, but the latter 
has the slate-blue wash on the upper plumage much less 
pronounced and also the female averages paler. ‘Two or 
three males of saturatus stand out as exceptionally dark, 
having the back saturated with a slate-blue wash, but others, 
possibly younger birds, are little if any darker than the 
Assam birds. For the present this may be accepted as a 
good race. | 

C. t. japonicus. Birds from the breeding area are darker 
than European specimens of C. ¢. tinnunculus, but not so 
dark as the Assam birds. This race must, I think, be sus- 
tained. Its breeding-haunts are eastern Siberia, Manchuria, 
probably north-east China, and Japan and, I feel sure, the 
higher levels in the Himalayas from 8000 ft. upwards. In 
winter this form extends all over south-west China, the 
Indo-Burmese countries and north and north-east India, but 
does not seem to occur far south or be common in the western 
parts. 

C’. t. dorriesi does not appear to be maintainable with 
the material so far available, but must be held to be a syno- 
nym of japonicus rather than tinnunculus. At the same time, 
there are certain very large pale birds (see measurements 
below) which also have white fringes to many of the feathers 
of the upper parts and, if it could be proved that these birds 
have a particular breeding range, they certainly must be 
considered as another race. 

In regard to the southern Indian bird, this at once 
stands apart from the others, as Rothschild has rightly shown, 
by its deep brick-red coloration with no tinge of slate. It 


105 L Vol. xlvii. 


is as dark as the Assam bird, but is brighter ; the females, 
moreover, are richer and redder, less brown in hue, This 
must be accepted as a good form. 

Finally, [am much puzzled by an extremely pale bird found 
commonly in Sind, the North-West Frontier and the north- 
west Punjab in winter. These birds are even paler than 
European examples and very clear and bright in tint. They 
may be merely exceptionally pale specimens of C. t. tin- 
nunculus, but they certainly convey the impression of birds 
from some high desert plateau. These may prove to be yet 
another recognizable form. 

From the above it will be seen that I recognize the 
following forms as coming into our Indian Avifauna :— 


(1) CERCHNEIS TINNUNCULUS TINNUNCULUS. 


Falco tinnunculus Linn. Syst. Nat. ivth ed. i. p. 90, 1758. 

Type-locality. Sweden. 

The palest form recognised. 

Distribution. Breeding in Europe, north Africa, north of 
the Sahara (Hartert), and north-west Asia, probably as far 
as the Yeneseiand south to Afghanistan, Persia and, possibly, 
Gilgit at the greatest elevations. 


(2) CERCHNEIS TINNUNCULUS JAPONICUS. 


Falco tinnunculus japonicus Temm. & Schleg. in Siebold’s 
Fauna Jap., Aves, p. 2, pl. 1. & ib, 1844. 

Type-locality. Japan. 

A rather darker form than C. t. tinnunculus. 

Distribution. Breeding in Japan, E. Siberia, Manchuria, 
northern China, Tibet, Ladak, and N. Kashmir. Wintering 
over south-west China, the Indo-Chinese countries, and 
India, where it is confined principally to the Himalayas 
and the north-east plains, but extending in smaller numbers 
to Orissa, the Central Provinces, and Bombay Presidency. 
Should material show that there is a special pale form 
(? dorriest) breeding in the north-east—say, from Yenesei 
to the Amur,—japonicus will still assuredly be found to be 
the breeding form in the N. China Hills, through Szechwan 
to Tibet and further west. 


Vol. xlvii. | 106 


(3) CERCHNEIS TINNUNCULUS SATURATUS. 

Falco saturatus Blyth, J. A.S. B. xxviii. p. 277, 1859. 

Type-locality. Tenasserim. 

A very dark bird distinguished from all other races by 
the intense slate-blue wash on the upper plumage of the 
male. 

Distribution. Resident in Yunnan and Shan States, and 
either resident in the hills of Tenasserim or wintering there | 
and in other provinces of Burma. A Kestrel is known to 
breed (jide Harington, Cook, and Wickham) in the Kachin 
Hills and it will probably be found that this form spreads 
across northern Burma, grading into interstinctus in the 
Chin Hills. The specimens obtained by Harington, now in 
the Tring Museum, are of this race, but they are winter 
birds and so do not actually prove what the breeding bird is. - 


(4) CERCHNEIS TINNUNCULUS INTERSTINCTUS. 

Tinnunculus interstinctus McClelland, P.Z.8. 1840, 
p. 154. 

Type-locality. Assam. 

Nearly as dark a form as saturatus but with much less 
slate tinge on the upper plumage of the male. 

Distribution. Breeding in the higher (4000 to 6000 ft.) 
ranges of Assam and the lower ranges of the Himalayas, 
Bhutan Hills, Nepal and Garhwal, probably up to 8000 
feet, possibly to 10,000 feet and certainly as low as 2000 
(Whistler). In winter it extends throughout India and 
Burma. 

(5) Cerchneis tinnunculus objurgatus, subsp. nov. 

This form differs from all the other dark races in the 
very bright, though deep, brick-red colour of the back of 
the male and in the dark rich coloration of the female. 
In both sexes the underparts are a very rich rufous. In no 
instance has the back of the male any slate wash at all. 

Type in British Museum: ¢, immature. Ootacamund, 
Nilgiris, South India, 6th June, 1867. Hume Coll. Reg. 
No. 85. 8. 19.2691. 


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[ Vol. xlvii. 


Distribution. Resident and breeding-in Ceylon, Travan-— 
core, and the hill-ranges of Mysore and southern India, 


including the Nellampatty Hills. 


It is apparently a non- 


migratory form but, from the present material, it is difficult 
to say whether its range is the same in summer and winter. 
This race has long been known to breed at the Gairsoppa 
Falls and Davidson believed it to nest in the more rugged 


ravines and ghauts of the N. Kanara District. 


The 


measurements of the various forms are given below for easy 


comparison :— 
Wing. Tail. Culmen. 

: . 230-259 1538-175 17-19 

C. t. tinnunculus ...... 943-967 162-175 
: : . 244-2959 152-168 17-19 

C. be japonicus Shale! vow «1 6 ; 943-968 157-168 
Opies . 243-256 168-176 17-18 

Oe SUCUT GELESY Veta do) tle6 ; 953-264 : 157-175 
F : . 230-263 145-194 17-18 

& 4. wnterstinctus ...... : 945-264 146-179 
: . 225-240 147-159 16-17 

C. t. objurgatus ........ " 984-955 155-169 


In addition to the above there are a number of very large 
birds from different localities, as shown below. They are all 
pale, mostly with white fringes to the feathers of the upper 
plumage :— 


Place Sex. Wing. Tail. 
INGPEE rae cs « o 263 186 
Sikkne 4.3... 3. 270 185 
Yunnan ..).’.. oO. 274. 184 

ie eee . 260 188 
POSE oe ok ssh (sig 263 184 
Manitpor so... ae 262 182 
Punjab}. i. g: 265 183 

0), ie ere Q. 265 183 
Yarkand.. .4 25°. oO, 262 181 
Bagdad “s.... é. 254 180 


F ALCO SEVERUS RUFIPEDOIDES. 
Falco severus rufipedoides Hodgs. Calcutta Journal N. H. 
iv. p. 284, 1844. 
The name Falco indicus Meyer & Wig. B. of Celebes, i. 
p. 84, 1897, is preoceupied by Falco indicus of Gmelin, Syst. 


Vol. xlvii.] 108 


Nat. i. p. 264, 1788=Butastur indicus. Hodgson fully de- 
scribed the bird (in loc. cit.) under the name Falco rufipedoides, 
and this name is actually quoted by Meyer and Wiglesworth 
as a synonym of J. severus, though Hodgson states how it 
differs from that bird. Although no locality is given by 
Hodgson, it may be taken as India, since he is writing on 
“Indian Falcons.” He further states that structurally it is 
a subbuteo. As the description is evidently taken from birds 
obtained by himself, the type-locality may be restricted to 
Nepal. The name rujipedordes was communicated in an 
unsigned letter to the Calcutta Journal, which was merely 
said to be “from a correspondent” ; but that it was by 
Hodgson is proved by the fact that in the Hodgson drawings 
in the British Museum an illustration of this Falcon bears 
the name “ Falco rufipedoides nobis ”’ in his own handwriting. 


Genus NYcTIORNIS. 


The name Nyctzornis, which has always been used for a 
genus of Oriental Bearded Bee-eaters, cannot be used, as it is 
preoccupied by Nyctorns Nitzsch, Obs. de Av. Ar. Carot. 
Com. p. 15, 1829, “ Nyctornis N.= Caprimulgus grandis.” 

There is, however, a name available, Bucia of Hodgson, 
Journal As. Soc. Bengal, v. p. 360, 1836, which says 
=WNyctiornis. Type Nyctiornis athertoni. The name Bucia 
must therefore take the place of Vyctiornis. 


Dr. C. B. Ticrnurst forwarded the following communi- 
cation :— 


Some time ago (Journ. B. N. H.S. xxxi. No. 2) I pointed 
out that the Culicicapa from Northern India was not the same 
as the Ceylon bird, but thinking it had already got a name 
I never described it. I now propose to name it 


Culicicapa ceylonensis pallidior, subsp. nov. 


Description. Head and throat paler grey ; mantle brighter 
yellower green, not so dark green ; underparts paler yellow, 
less washed with olivaceous, compared with Culicicapa 
ceylonensis ceylonensts. 


109 [ Vol. xlvii. 


Type. In Brit. Mus. Simla, 1st Oct., 1880. Collected by — 
W. Davison. No.86.4.1. 3089. 

Distribution. N.W. EF. P.; Cashmere ; N.W. Himalayas ; 
Nepal; Sikkim. In winter plains of Punjab, United Pro- 
vinces, Bombay Presidency, Central Provinces. 

Material examined. 60 from the above area; 12 of the 
typical race from Ceylon and the Nilgiris. 

Obs. This race has, by older authors, been alluded to 
as Cryptolopha cinereocapilla (Vieillot), but it appears that 
Vieillot never gave the specific name, and as it has so often 
been considered as synonymous with Culicicapa ceylonensis 
by Blyth, Horsfield, Jerdon, etc., I do not think it can be 
used for any other race. 


NOTICES. 


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April 6th, 1927, at PAGANT’S RESTAURANT, 42-48 Great 
Portland Street, W.1. The Dinner at 7 p.m. 


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Square, W.1. 


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Museum, South Kensington, §8.W.7, and to give him their 
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BRITISH ORNEFHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. 


No. CCCXIV. 


Tae three-hundred-and-ninth Meeting of the Club was 
held at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, 
W. 1, on Wednesday, April 6th, 1927. 


Chairman: H. F. Wiruersy. 


Members present :—H. G. Auexanper; F. J. F. Bar- 
KINGTON ; S. Boorman; A. L. Butter; Col. SrupHenson 
R. parce ; Major S.S. Frower; N. B. Kinnear (Editor) ; 
J. Spepan Lewis; N.S. Lucas; Col. R. MEINERTZHAGEN ; 
Mrs. R. Mutnerrznacen ; C. OLpHam ; C. W. Mackworrtu- 
Prazp ; G. H. R. Pyz-Suira ; W. G. Sruart-Menreru ; W. 
L. Sctater ; A. Lanpsporoucu THomson ; Hueu Waist er. 


Guests :—W. B. ALEXANDER ; Capt. F. Kinepon-Warp ; 
Major Pyz-Smrru, 


Mr. N. B. Kryyzar exhibited three birds obtained by 
Capt. F. Kingdon-Ward during June 1926, in the Seinghku 
Valley, N. Burma, lat. 28° 8’ N., 97° 20’ E., which included 
a Blood Pheasant (Ithaginis cruentatus kuseri), a Babbler 


(April 23rd, 1927.] a VOL. XLVII. 


Vol. xlvii.] 112 


(Trochalopterum affinis afinis), and a very distinct new 
species of Trogon, which he proposed to call 


Pyrotrogon wardi, sp.n. | 

Description. Head, neck, and back dark olive, lighter on 
the rump; lores orange-yellow; primaries black with a 
narrow white border on the outer webs of the second to the 
seventh; wing-coverts brown freckled with black ; middle 
pair of tail-feathers bronze-brown, the next two pairs black 
with a bronze tinge towards the tip, and the remaining three 
outer pairs black at the base and for two-thirds of the inner 
and about half the outer web, remainder golden-yellow, 
brightest on the outer web and becoming white towards the 
tip. Below, throat and breast olive-brown, tinged with 
yellow; belly, vent, under tail-coverts bright orange-yellow. 

Measurements. Wing 175 mm., tail 228, tarsus 17, exposed 
culmen 18. 

Type in the British Museum: (¢?) Seinghku Valley, 
N. Burma, 8000 feet, lat. 28° 8’ N., long. 97° 20’ E., 
29th October, 1926. British Museum No. 1927. 2.16. 5. 

Observations. Only a single example of this remarkable 
Trogon, which was shot by a native with a cross-bow, was 
obtained by Mr. Kingdon-Ward. 

The specimen was too much damaged to make out the 
sex, but from the coloration it is probably a female. 

It is quite distinct from any other known Trogon, and has a 
very long tail in comparison with other members of the genus. 


Mr. Kinnear made the following additional remarks :— 
In the ‘Birds of British Guiana’ the late Mr. Chubb 


included under Picumnus macconnelli two specimens from 
the Takatu River and Upper Takatu Mts. which obviously 
do not belong to that species, and I therefore propose to 
call them 


Picumnus cirrhatus confusus, subsp. nov. 


Male. Differs from P. c. cirrhatus in the colour of the 
upperside, which is greyish-brown without any yellowish 


113 [ Vol. xlvii. 


tinge. Below, these two forms are identical. From P. 
macconnelli the present bird is distinguished by the greyer, 
less dark back, and on the under surface by the white ground- 
colour barred with black instead of black barred with white. 

Type in the British Museum: ¢, Takatu River, British 
Guiana, 1907, McConnell Collection. British Museum 
No. 1922.3. 5.1832. 

Specimens examined. The type anda ¢ from the Upper 
Takatu Mts. (1908). 

Observation. Both these two specimens were obtained by 
native collectors in the employ of Mr. McConnell. 

Picumnus macconnelli was described by Sharpe in 1901 from 
a specimen in Mr. McConnell’s collection. There is no 
locality on the label, and the skin was apparently bought 
by Mr. McConnell along with a number of others from a 
dealer. 

As several of these skins are of species which do not occur 
in British Guiana, the type-locality of P. macconnelli is open 
to doubt. 

Unfortunately, Chubb, in describing P. macconnelli in 
the ‘ Birds of British Guiana,’ did not base his description 
on the type, but on the bird now described as P. c. confusus, 
and added to this the plate, though apparently taken from 
the type, has been reproduced with the colour of the back 
as in the typical form of P. c¢. cirrhatus. 

In the series of P.c. cirrhatus in the British Museum 
there are two skins from Cayenne—one ex Eyton collection 
and the other purchased from H. Whitely, the dealer,—while 
a third from the same source is marked “‘ New Granada.” 
None of these birds have original labels and all came to the 
Museum in the Hargitt Collection. 


RESULTS OF FURTHER EXPERIMENTS FROM INTERNAL 
ILLUMINATION OF Haas, AND REMARKS ON THEIR MARKINGS. 


Mr. P. F. Bunyarp illuminated a number of eggs 
internally by means of a tiny electric-light bulb, and made 
the following remarks :— 

When exhibiting a clutch of marked Goshawks’ eggs at 


the November meeting, I made a few casual remarks on 
a2 


- Vol. xlvii.] 114 


the so-called pigmentation of eggs, based on a paper by 
Dr. Embleton, which appeared in the Nat. Hist. Trans. of 
the Northumberland and Durham Naturalists’ Club in 1878. 
This paper appears to have been overlooked by oologists 
until recently, and to my mind is by far the most important 
communication which has been written on this interesting 
subject. 

The statement I made, and which I am glad to know has 
caused some interest among oologists, was that all markings 
on eggs are composed of, and caused by, nothing but blood. 
Dr. Embleton, on p. 68 in the paper referred to above, 
states :-— 

“The colours of the shells of eggs are not found to be 
different from those which are produced by the blood of 
mammals and birds, when it has been effused among the 
living tissues of these creatures, in consequence of a blow 
having contused the skin and subjacent parts, and ruptured 
their blood-vessels. Such blood during its gradual disap- 
pearance by absorption gives rise to all the graduations of 
colour in the solar spectrum. Hven in the interior of the 
human body, in the brain itself, similar changes and shades 
of colour may be observed after death around an old 
hemorrhagic clot that has for months, or even years, been 
undergoing a gradual process of absorption.” 

Further on, Dr. Embleton refers to a statement made by 
F, A. L. Thienemann in his work entitled ‘Systematische 
Darstellung der Fortpflanzung der Vogel Huropas, mit 
Abbildung der Hier,’ 1825-38. 

Thienemann’s remarks, on p. 11 of the above work, are as 
follows :—— 

“The colouring of eggs. goes on during the formation of 
the calcareous shell, and this in two ways. Hither the 
whole shell is mixed throughout with colouring matters, and 
these are greenish, or yellowish, or brownish, or, through the 
pressure of the eggs on the swollen blood-vessels of the ovi- 
duct, the pent up blood becomes discharged mechanically, 
sinks in more or less upon the soft or hardening shell-mass, 
and gives the streaks or spots.” 


115 { Vol. xlvii. 


Iam convinced that this century-old theory of Thienemann 
and Embleten, upon which my experiments are based, is 
correct, and, as the latter says, “no pigment glands have 
ever been described as existing in the oviduct.” His 
arguments in support of the blood theory are obviously 
based on the examination of a large amount of material, but 
he does not appear to have gone very deeply into the experi- 
mental side of the question, for the simple reason that he 
‘ probably found a superficial examination sufficiently con- 
vincing. Experiments are interesting, but I do not agree 
that they are necessary. © 

The object of my demonstration by internal illumination 
is to endeavour to show that all markings on eggs are of the 
same colour and constituency, no matter what colour they 
appear to be, from a superficial examination. 

The greys, mauves, and purplish markings are the same 
colour as the the superimposed markings, the difference in 
appearance being caused by the thin film of calcareous 
matter with which they are covered. 

IT am glad to say that it has been possible to greatly 
improve on my original experiment with the Puffins’ eggs. 
It was then necessary to drill holes of 4 inch diameter in 
order to insert the electric bulb. 

The illuminating attachment Iam using this evening is well 
known in the medical profession, and, as the bulb is only 
50 x 3°0 mm., it is no longer necessary to enlarge the blow- 
holes except in very small eggs. 

For the purpose of this demonstration I have divided the 
eggs for illumination under three headings :— 


(1) Eggs on which the whole of the markings are found 
on the mammille, or layer 1—.e., shell-marks of 
grey, mauve, etc. 

(2) Eggs on which the markings are found on the coherent, 
or layer 2—~. e., shell-marks of darker shades of grey, 
mauve, etc. 

(3) Eggs on which the markings are found on the upper 
membrane, layer 3—i. e., conspicuous, surface, or 
superimposed. 


Vol. xlvii. | 116 


In a single clutch of some species it is possible to find 
egos representing all the above forms. 


Results of illuminating certain Eggs. 


Guillemot. These exhibited the most remarkable results, 
their beauty being increased a hundredfold. Two veined 
eggs with a blue ground were evidently marked with some 
oily substance, and reminded one of the water-marks in 
paper. 

Razorbill. Though not so beautiful as the former, they 
they were none the less interesting. A purplish-grey egg 
had the characteristics entirely altered, and large conspicuous 
markings were revealed. Analmost pure white egg showed 
a beautiful shade of green, with pale brown markings. 

Albatros. A slightly marked egg proved to be evenly 
marked with spots and short veins of pale reddish-brown. 

Pufin. An almost unmarked egg showed conspicuous zone 
of short vein-marks. 

Noddy Tern. An egg with underlying markings proved to 
be evenly and heavily marked. 

Herring-Gull. In erythristic examples of this species and 
the Lapwing, the red colour disappeared almost entirely. 

Black-headed Gull. Blue eggs with practically no mark- 
ings were as heavily marked as the normal eggs in the same 
cluteh. 

Stone-Curlew. An egg with a greenish ground became 
greener and exhibited a fracture, which had calloused and 
repaired itself in the oviduct. A clutch of two eggs, which 
differed considerably, appeared the same. 

Spotted Redshank. An egg with a greenish ground ap- 
peared beautifully green and heavily marked. 

Red Grouse. This showed that the markings on game-bird 
eggs are entirely superimposed. 

Pheasant. A brown egg appeared greenish, while the brown 
egg of the Jacana gave similar results with a dark green cap. 
The thin layer of brown colour on Gulls’, Pheasants’ eggs, etc., 
is mixed and deposited with the glutinous or uppermost layer. 


117 [ Vol. xlvii. 


Red Grouse, Lapwing. These two eggs, with conspicuous 
unmarked zones, showed no markings on these parts, the 
blood not being absorbed owing to the excessive hardness 
of the shell. 

Lesser Spotted Eagle. A very beautiful egg, with greyish 
underlying marks, proved to be heavily marked rich reddish- 
brown. 

Greater Spotted Eagle. A poor-looking egg appeared to 
be heavily marked. A similar egg of the Golden Eagle 
showed the same result. 

Egpytian Vulture. These appeared even more beautiful 
than those of the Guillemots’. The rich blood-markings of 
the eggs of the Accipitres, surpassing in richness anything 
previously seen, proved that some of the most conspicuous 
markings were on the mammille-layer. 

Osprey. Showed much the same results as the former. 

Sparrow- Hawk. A heavily-marked egg proved the marks 
were all superimposed, while a bluish egg with purplish- 
grey markings appeared richly and heavily marked with 
reddish-brown. 

Song-Thrush. The beautiful blue almost entirely dis- 
appeared. 

Barred Warbler. A typical and an erythristic egg were 
heavily marked, the marking on these eggs is very rarely 
superimposed. 

Bearded Titmouse. Lechner was unable to find the grey 
or greyish-red speckles mentioned by Thienemann *. I[]lumi- 
nation confirmed this—z. e., they were not present. 
Cuckoo. A greenish-grey egg exhibited markings all of 
the same shade. 

The normal characteristics of many eggs disappeared 
almost entirely when illuminated, the markings, however, 
according to density, were all of the same colour, ranging from 
brownish-black to bright reddish, and markings completely 
obscured were not only revealed but proved to be of the 
same colour. 

* ‘Qologia Neerlandica,’ vol. i, 


Vol. xlvii.] 118 


Mr. W. L. ScitaterR communicated the following notes 
on African birds :— 


On THE GENUS CALAMOCICHLA. 


The genus Calamocichla was first proposed by Sharpe in 
1883 (Cat. Bds. vii. p. 131) for two species of Swamp- 
Warblers, Calamoherpe newton Hartl. and Calamodyta 
brevipennis Keulemans, from Madagascar and the Cape 
Verde Islands respectively. No type was designated. In 
1896 Shelley (Bds. Afr.i. p. 79) definitely designated the 
Madagascar bird, C. newtonz, the type. | 

In 1908 Neumann (Nov. Zool. xv. p. 244) revised the 
genus, several other species having been in the meantime 
added to it. He, however, believing that such was Sharpe’s 
intention, made C. brevipennis the type of the genus and 
proposed for the Madagascar bird, which obviously is not 
congeneric, a new generic name—Hemiellesia. His action. 
though possibly dictated by what the original describer 
intended, is obviously not justified according to the Inter- 
national Code of Nomenclature, and the genus Calamocichla 
must be restricted to the Madagascan C. newtont. 7 

It appears to be necessary, therefore, to give a new generic 
name to the African Swamp-Warblers formerly placed in 
Calamocichla, and I propose for this group the name 


Calamornis, gen. nov., 


with type Calamodyta brevipennis Keulemans. 

In Colonel Stephenson Clarke’s collection, recently pre- 
sented to the British Museum, I find a single example of this 
genus which notably exceeds in size any of the other species 
yet described. I propose to call it 


Calamornis foxi, sp. n. 


Description. Closely resembling C. ansorget in general 
appearance, but very much larger, the wing measuring 85 
against 80 mm. in the latter ; the wing is also more pointed 
in the Angola bird, the second primary (from outside) is as 
long as the secondaries, while in C. ansorget it is distinctly 
shorter; the fourth, fifth, and sixth are about equal and 


119 [Vol. xlvii. 


longest. “Iris pale brown, upper mandible brownish-black, 
inside of mouth brownish-grey, feet grey.” 

Measurements. Wing 85 mm., tail 85, culmen 18, tarsus 
(broken) c. 31, hind claw 11. 

Type. A male collected by Mr. T. V. Fox at Lake Maraye 
in Kigezi District, S. W. Uganda, on 8 January, 1911, and 
presented to the British Museum by Colonel Stephenson 
Clarke. B.M. Reg. No. 1923. 8.7. 3282. 

Obs. Only a single adult example is available. A second 
specimen from the same place, but obtained previously on 
4 Dec., 1910, is smaller (wing 75), and is in the rufous 
plumage which in this genus appears to be characteristic of 
the young bird ; it is sexed male. It closely resembles in 
every way two specimens in the juvenile rufous plumage from 
Fort Beni in the Semliki valley and from the Mubuku 
valley, EH. Ruwenzori, referred by Ogilvie-Grant to C. 
nilotica. As the species of this genus are not well known 
and material is very scarce, I have considered it advisable to 
name the new form binominally, but it certainly appears to 
belong to the ansorget group. 


CINNYRIS OSEUS DECORSEI. 

Through the courtesy of M. J. Berlioz of the Paris 
Museum I have been privileged to examine the type of 
Cinnyris decorset, described by Oustalet (Bull. Mus. Paris, 
x. p. 536, 1904) from the Lake Chad region, and I find, as 
I had previously suspected, that it is undoubtedly identical 
with Cinnyris osea butlert W. Scl. and Praed (‘ Ibis,’ 1918, 
p. 619) from Kajo Kaji in the Lado district of the Upper 
White Nile, and which has also been obtained by Admiral 
Lynes in Darfur, where he found it to be a “ common winter 
breeding visitor on the heights of Jebel Marra.” This 
Sun-bird must therefore be known in future as Cinnyris 
oseus decorset Oustalet. 


ELMINIA SCHWEBISCHI. 
At the same time M. Berlioz was kind enough to send me 
the type of Elminia schwebischi Oustalet (N. Arch. Mus. 
Paris, (3) iv. p. 216, 1892), obtained at Franceville in French 


Vol. xlvii.] |, 52g 


Congo. As I had anticipated, this proved to be identical 
with Hrannornis (formerly called Elminia) longicauda tere- 
sita (Antin.), which ranges from the Upper White Nile and 
Bahr el Ghazel west to Cameroon and south to Uganda and 
the Semliki Valley, and is now proved to extend to southern 
French Congo. 


EsTRILDA XANTHOPHRYS. 
Last year (Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. xlvii. p. 32) I described as 


new a little Waxbill under this name, a pair of which were 
presented to the British Museum by M. Delacour, who had 
them alive from a dealer at Marseilles, and it was supposed 
they had come trom Senegal. Subsequently, I was informed 
that Mr. H. Whitley also had some of the same birds alive in 
captivity, and a female which died in his aviaries was sent 
to the Museum and found to be identical with the original 
Ei. wanthophrys. Mr. Whitley informed Mr. Kinnear that 
these Waxbills formed part of a consignment brought to 
England last year by young Rogers, the son of the well- 
known dealer in Liverpool, and that the birds all came from 
Abyssinia. 

The true locality of Hstrilda xanthophrys is therefore 
Abyssinia, and it should probably be considered merely as a 
subspecies of Lstrilda troglodytes (E. cinerea auct.), which 
has a wide distribution from Senegal to the Nile Valley, 
with an orange instead of a yellow face-streak. 


Mr. Grucory M. Maruews sent the following :— 


The genus OREICOLA Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. 
Paris, vol. xxxviii. p. 6, Jan. 2nd, 1854—type (by subse- 
quent designation, Gray, 1855, p. 143), Sawicola pyrrhonota 
Miill.,— will replace ErytHRomytas Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. vol. iv. p. 199, March 26th, 1879. Type, Sazicola 
dumetoria Wallace, with the species 1 


Oreicola dumetoria (Wallace), 
Oreicola muelleri (Blyth), 
Oreicola pyrrhonota (Mill.), 
Oreiwola buruensis (Hart.). 


121 [ Vol. xlvii. 


The genus Oreicola of the Cat. Birds, vol. iv. p. 263, must 
be called Rhodophila Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. ii. pt. 1, 
p. 128, 1863. Type (by monotypy), R. melanoleuca Jerdon= 
Oreicola jerdoni Blyth, with the species 


Rhodophila jerdoni (Blyth), 

Rhodophila melanoleuca Vieillot, which equals 
Rhodophila gutturalis Vieillot, 

Rhodophila ferrea (Gray). 


4 Mr. H. C. Rosinson sent the following 


Note on Phodilus Less. 


The Malayan form of Phodilus badius (Horsf.), of which 
the typical locality is Java, has recently been described by 
Oberholser (Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. xiv. 1824, p. 302) from 
a single unsexed specimen as Phodilus badius abbott. 

I have compared three birds from Java with a series from 
the Malay Peninsula, and, allowing for the greater age of 
the Java skins, can detect no difference in coloration. 

Birds from Borneo (ten specimens examined) are perhaps 
rather paler with a tendency to greater spotting above. 

There is no available material from Sumaira, but a single 
bird from Billiton (in partial moult, however) is very 
small. 

When we come to Indian birds, currently called P. b. 
nipalensis (Gray, Hand-list, i. p. 53), we find that this name 
is not available, in that it is a nomen nudum, and is also, as 
pointed out by Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. 1875, p. 309, 
footnote, based on a specimen of Otus spilocephalus (Blyth). 

Sikkim and Darjiling birds can, however, easily be separated 
from the Malayan birds, and may be recorded as 


Phodilus badius saturatus, nom. nov. 


Deeper and more richly coloured above than the typical 
form, especially on the head. Size decidedly larger. Wing 
of type 231 mm. 


Vol. xlvii.] 122 


Type adult (probably female). Native Sikkim, Jan. 1874. 
Mandelli. B.M. Reg. No. 1886. 2. 1. 1123. 


The races therefore are : 
1. Phodilus badius badius (Horsf.). 


Java: Wing 186-196 mm. (3 spms.). 

Borneo: Wing 181-191 mm. (10 spms.). 

Malay Peninsula: Wing 191-202 mm. (9 spms.). 
Billiton : Wing 171 mm. (1 spm.). 


2. Phodilus badius saturatus, supra. 
Native Sikkim and Dariiling: Wing 216-231 mm. 
(7 spms.). 
Buxa Duars: Wing 227 mm. (1 spm.). 
Assam and Cachar: Wing 212-213 mm. (2 spms.). 
Birds from Burma, as might be expected, are intermediate. 
Karin Hills: Wing 194-204 mm. (2 spms.). 
Tonghoo: Wing 213 mm. (1 spm.). 


3. Phicditus badius assimilis Hume. 


Darker, more chestnut-brown and less bay, patch on the 
outer under wing-coverts, blackish brown not chest- 
nut-bay. 

Ceylon: Wing 197-204 mm. (4 spms.). 


123 [ Vol. xlvii. 
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The next Meeting of the Club will be held on Wednesday, 
May 11th, 1927, at PAGANI’S RESTAURANT, 42-48 Great 
Portland Street, W.1. The Dinner at 7 p.m. 


Members intending to dine are requested to inform the 
Hon. Secretary, Dr. G. C. Low, 86 Brook Street, Grosvenor 
Square, W.1. 


Members who intend to make any communication at the 
next Meeting of the Club are requested to give notice before- 
hand to the Editor, Mr. N. B. Kinnear, at the Natural History 
Museum, South Kensington, S.W.7, and to give him their 
MSS., for publication in the ‘ Bulletin,’ not later than at 
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Tae three-hundred-and-tenth Meeting of the Club was 
held at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, 
W. 1, on Wednesday, May 11th, 1927. 


Charman: H. F. WivTHERBY. 


Members present :—W. Suore Batty; D. A. BANNER- 
MAN; I. J. F. Barxinaton ; P. F. Bonyarp; A. L. Burier; 
Sir Percy Cox; J. CunnrncHam; Major 8S. 8. Flower; 
G. H. Gurney; Rev. J. R. Hate; R. E. Heatu; Rev. 
F. C. R. Journaiy; N. B. Krynear (Ldttor); Dr. G. C. 
Low (Hon. Sec. & Treas.) ; Dr. P. R. Lowe; N.S. Lucas ; 
Lt.-Col. H. A. Macrara; Dr. P. H. Manson-Baur ; 
G. M. Maruews; Col. R. MernertzHacen; Mrs. Mrererrz- 
HAGEN ; T. H. Newman; C.B. Rickert; H.C. Rosryson ; 
Lord Roruscuinp; W. L. Sctater; L. J. Tourtun; 
Dr. Casey A. Woop. 


Guests :—F. W. Batty; P. W. T. Bovucuton-LeiGu ; 
: Capt. J. B.S. Frower ; Dr. C. W. Townsenp ; D. E. Warp, 


{ May 26th, 1927. | | a VOL. XLVII. 


Vol. xlvii.| 126 


Mr. C. H. B. GRant communicated the following remarks 
on certain birds in Tanganyika Colony :— 

Among the specimens I have obtained for the British 
Museum within recent years is a pair of Hzrundo angolensis 
angolensis Bocage (type-loe., Huilla), taken at Kasulu in 
Kigoma Province, Tanganyika Territory, on the 3rd 
February, 1924. 

As regards Kasulu, this Swallow arrives about November 
and after breeding, sometimes rearing two broods, it departs 
whence it came about May. Numbers arrive together, but 
after a day or so they all depart, with the exception of two 
or three pairs which nest in the Boma, the nest being similar 
to that of Smith’s Swallow (Hirundo smith). I am of 
opinion that this Swallow is a nesting migrant only to Tan- 
ganyika Territory and returns to the Belgian Congo or 
Angola for the rest of the year. Reichenow records it from 
Rungwe District, but we have no record of it between this 
locality and Kasulu, and I know it does not occur in the 
towns of Kigoma or Ujiji, nor have I seen it at any of the 
railway-stations between Kigoma and Malagarasi. 


Larus cirrhocephalus Vieillot (type-loc., Brazil) is also a 
migrant to Lake Tanganyika, at least so far as the 130 miles 
of lake-shore of Kigoma District is concerned, and observa- 
tions show that it arrives in October and departs in May. 

Immature birds, obviously birds of the year, are noticeable 
when this Gull arrives in October, but I have not seen, or 
heard of, a breeding-ground on the east side of the lake. 
Dwight (“ Laridz,” Bull. Amer. Mus. vol. lii. p.272) mentions 
Lake Tanganyika as one of its breeding-grounds, but it would 
be interesting to learn on what data this information is based. 


Mr. H.C. Rosinson exhibited and described the following 
new Owl from Sumatra :— 
Athenoptera spilocephalus stresemanni, subsp. nov. 
Pisorhina lucie Robinson & Kloss, Journ. Fed. Malay 
States, vii. (2) 1918, p. 126. 
Otus spilocephalus lucie (partim) Stresemann, Mittheil. 


Zool. Mus. Berlin, xu. 1, 1925, p. 192. 


127 ' [ Vol. xlvii. 


2. More uniform above and less of a rufous tinge than 
either A. s. vulpes from the southern Malay Peninsula or 
A. s. siamensis from Peninsular Siam. Much paler and 
less marked than A. s. lucte from Kinabalu and Dulit, 
N. Borneo. Cervical collar almost obsolete, indicated merely 
by slight broadening of the white shaft-stripes, with which 
the upper surface is sparsely flecked, these stripes being 
bordered by black. Forehead pale pinky-buff, lighter than 
in the other races. Lower breast lightly vermiculated with 
black, many of the feathers with ill-defined whitish and 
blackish-brown shaft-stripes. Total length 190; wing 138; 
tail 70 ; tarsus 26°5 ; bill from gape 20°5 mm. (measured in 
the flesh). 

Type (and only specimen examined in the British 
Museum), adult female, Scolah Dras, Korinchi, West 
Sumatra, 3000 ft. Collected by H. C. Robinson and C. B. 
Kloss, March 18th, 1914. B.M. Reg. No. 1920. 6.29. 90. 

Compared with the type of A. s. siamensis, the type and 
four others of A. s. vulpes, and five specimens of A. s. lucia 
from Kinabalu and Dulit, Borneo. 

Remarks. I have followed Dr. Stresemann in regarding 
these insular forms as subspecies of A. spilocephalus of the 
Himalayas, with which, however, A. hambroeckiw (Swinh.) 
from Formosa and A. latouchu (Rickett) from China and 
the Tenasserim-Siam border as well A. vanderwateri, also 
from W. Sumatra, are not in my opinion very closely con- 
nected. Sharpe’s genus, Heteroscops, typified by A. lucia, 
may fairly be resuscitated for these small Owls ; the name 
is, however, antedated by Athenoptera Hutton, in Hume’s 
“Rough Notes Indian Ornithology,’ pt. i. No. 2, 1870, 
p- 392. Type, Hphialtes spilocephalus huttont Hume. 


Messrs. N. B. KINNEAR and H. ©. RoBINSON made the 
following communication :— 


We owe to the kindness of Dr. F. W. Thomas, Librarian 
to the Indian Office, the opportunity of examining in detail 
a volume of coloured drawings of Sumatran birds made 


Vol. xlvii. | 128 


under the superintendence of Sir Stamford Raffles, while 
Lieutenant-Governor of Fort Marlborough, Sumatra. 

The drawings were forwarded to Europe about June 
1820, or rather earlier, together with a collection of birds 
and mammals, and thus escaped the destruction that in- 
volved the bulk of Sir Stamford Rafiles’s collection when the 
Indiaman ‘ Fame’ was burnt off the coast of Sumatra. 

These drawings and the skins accompanying them formed 
the basis of Rafiles’s ‘ Descriptive Catalogue of a Zoological 
Collection made on the Island of Sumatra and its Vicinity,’ 
dated Fort Marlborough, June 1820. This was read before 
the Linnean Society on March 20th, 1821, and published in 
vol. xu. of the ‘ Transactions,’ pp. 277-342, between March 
and May 1822. 

The collections were probably made in part by Dr. Arnold, 
famous as the discoverer of Lafflesca arnoldi Brown, the 
largest (or almost the largest) known flower, who died in 
Sumatra in July 1818, and in part by Diard and Duvaueel, 
two French naturalists on the staff of Sir Stamford Raffles, 
but with whom misunderstandings arose after they had been 
in Sumatra but little more than a year, to which fact was due 
the early publication of this paper by Sir Stamford Raffles 
himself. 

After the destruction of the ‘ Fame,’ Sir Stamford caused 
further collections to be made, which he brought home with 
him. These collections were presented to the Zoological 
Society of London by Lady Raffles on April 24th, 1827, 
after her husband’s death. An account of thisfinal collection 
(by N. H. Vigors) is contained in the Appendix, ‘‘ Memoir 
of Sir Stamford Raffles,” London, 1830. This paper contains 
descriptions of a few species not contained in the earlier 
collections. On the dispersal of the Society’s Museum in 
1855, many of the specimens passed by purchase to the 
British Museum, but some cannot now be traced. 

The drawings are for the most part excellent and faithful 
to their subjects, though a certain number are incomplete, 
iris, bill, and feet remaining to be coloured. They were 


129 [ Vol. xlvii. 


probably executed by a Javanese draughtsman and in ‘prac- 
tically all cases the species can be recognized at a glance. 
Many of them have undoubted claims to be recognized as 
the actual types of Raffles’s descriptions, certainly so in the 
cases in which no skins were received with the drawings. 
With the exception of two, a Tern ( Clitonias sp., immature) 
and a Caprimulgus, all the drawings, 128, have been identi- 
fied or admit of identification. For the most part they have 
been correctly listed in Horsfield and Moore’s ‘ Catalogue of 
Birds in the Museum of the Kast Indian Company,’ vols. i.-ii. 
1856, 1858, but a few of the drawings, unaccompanied by 
specimens, are not referred to by those authors. Of three 
ef these we are now able to supply identifications, viz. :— 


(1) Laniws divaricatus Raffles, tom. eit. p. 306. India 
Office drawing, 598. 

This is an immature female in moult of Pericrocotus 
cinereus Lafresnaye, Rey. Zool. vill. 1845, p. 94 (Luzon, 
Philippines). 

Raffles’s name has priority and this well-known Minivet 
therefore becomes 


PERICROCOTUS DIVARICATUS (Raffles), 


the type being the above-mentioned drawing at present in 
the India Office Library. 


(2) Zurdus ambiguus Rafiles, tom. cit. p. 311. India 
Office drawing, 616. 


This drawing is taken from a somewhat immature specimen 
of the Tit described as 


Parus cinereus malayorum Robinson & Kloss, Journ. Fed. 
Malay States Mus. viii. (2) 1918, p. 227 (Korinchi, W. 


Sumatra), which now becomes 


PARUS CINEREUS AMBIGUUS (Raffles), 
with the above-mentioned drawing as type. 
a3 


Vol. xlvii.] 130 


(3) Ardea picta Raffles, tom. cit. p. 326. India Office 
drawing, 651. 

This is the young stage (in dark plumage) of Ardea 
melanolopha Raffles, described on the same page, but of which 
neither specimen nor drawing is, so far as we can discover, 
extant. = Gorsachius goisagi melanolophus (Raffles). 

It should be added that the whole collection bears evidence 
that it was entirely collected at low altitudes, as no single 
species confined to an elevation of 3000 feet or over is com- 
prised in it. Except, therefore, where there is definite 
evidence to the contrary, as in the case of Sterna sumatrana 
Raffles, which was collected at Acheen, the type-localities of 
all Raffles’s species may be taken as the neighbourhood 
of Bencoolen, W. Sumatra. 


Lord RoruscuHiLp exhibited a skin of the Western Caro- 
lina Parrot (Conuropsis carolinensis interior QO. Bangs) and 
a skin of the typical Carolina Parrot (C. carolinensis caro- 
linensis (Linn.), for comparison. He remarked that this was 
the sole example in Europe and that now both races of the 
Carolina Parrot were extinct. C. c¢. interior differs from 
C. c. carolinensis in having a larger bill, longer wing, and in 
the yellow of the head and neck being much paler. The 
green of most parts of the plumage is also much bluer, 
verdigris-green as opposed to bright apple-green. C. ¢. in- 
terior was spread over a large part of the Central and 
Western areas of the United States, whereas C. ¢. carolinensis 
was confined to the southern half of the Atlantic coastal 
states—most examples in collections being from Florida. 


BIRDS OBSERVED ON A VOYAGE TO SENEGAL. 


Mr. Davin BANNERMAN gave an account of his recent 
voyage from Marseilles to Senegal and back, vid Tangier, 
Casablanea, and Grand Canary, and of the birds he met with 
en route. 

Leaving Marseilles on 14th Feb., the Straits were passed 
on the night of the 16th, and the following day a few Shear- 
waters were noted, which from their decidedly dusky flanks 


LS [Vol. xlvii. | 


and under surface he believed to be Pujinus puffinus maure- 
tanicus Lowe. 

No Passerine birds were encountered on the outward 
voyage. Between Mazagan and Mogador, on Feb. 18th, the 
ship passed through a huge gathering of Gannets about 
10 miles from the coast, and nearing Cape Jaby a single 
Kittiwake was noted in company with many Larus atlantis. 
Twenty-four hours’ steam from Cape Verde, on Feb. 21st, 
over fifty Pomatorhine Skuas (Stercorarius pomarinus) joined 
the ship, remaining all day—only a very small percentage in 
the uniform brown plumage. When settled on the water the 
barred flanks and under tail-coverts of the light-plumaged 
birds showed very conspicuously. In flight they were easily 
recognised by the twisted tail and the collar and yellow 
cheeks, for, unlike the Gulls, the Skuas flew backwards and 
forwards close along the sides of the ship, not following in 
its wake as were hundreds of very small Petrels not certainly 
identified. Flocks of small grey Waders were passing 
north all that day, but none sufficiently close to be certain of 
the species. 

The return voyage was uneventful until Gibraltar had 
been passed. In the Straits, on April 12th, flocks of Puffinus 

“pufinus yelkouan were seen passing westwards—their pure 
white breasts in contrast to those of the Shearwaters seen 
near Tangier on the outward voyage. That same night the 
ship encountered the severe cyclone which did so much 
damage on land and sea in the Western Mediterranean—the 
wind was at gale force and the following two days numerous 
weary migrants alighted on the ship (Warblers, Song- 
Thrushes, Larks, Pipits, and Swallows), hunting diligently 
amongst the banana-crates piled on deck for any insects 
which they might harbour. On the 14th a Woodchat, 
identified as the typical form, came aboard between Majorca 
and Barcelona. Marseilles was reached on April 15th. 


NovTE ON THE ExporTATION OF Live Brirps 
FROM SENEGAL. 


In the course of his remarks Mr. BANNERMAN drew 


Vol. xlvii. | 132 


attention to the very unsatisfactory methods employed in 
the export trade of small brightly-coloured Weavers and 
other birds from Senegal for sale in Hurope. Hundreds of 
these birds were shipped at Dakar on the liner in which he 
travelled to Marseilles, and the condition of these birds 
called forth protests from every humane passenger on board. 
The birds were crammed into long cages or wooden crates 
with wire fronting some 4 ft. x 2 x 14 in size, over a hundred 
in each cage—the floor-space and inadequate perches filled 
to overflowing with fluttering birds struggling to gain a foot- 
hold. These birds, mostly the commoner small Weavers, 
were all freshly netted wild birds, and their fruitless efforts 
to gain their liberty added to the heavy mortality which 
must have taken place. The whole enormous consignment 
was in charge of one native boy sent from Dakar. The 
crates were piled on the aft hatch under a tarpaulin which 
had to be removed in port, and the conditions of feeding, 
watering, and protection from the weather left much to be 
desired. Particularly distressing was the case of a Woolly- 
necked Stork confined in a small wooden box without room 
to stretch up its neck. 

Mr. Bannerman spoke very strongly on this unnecessary 
cruelty entailed. He said he was far from wishing the export 
of foreign birds prohibited, but he pleaded for a much more 
rigorous control of the manner in which our foreign cage- 
birds reached Hurope. 

A discussion followed and Major FLownr, late Director of 
the Giza Gardens, Egypt, Dr. Casey Woop of the U.S.A., 
Mr. GERARD GURNEY, a well-known aviculturist, and others 
spoke of similar experiences, and urged that steps should be 
taken to mitigate this state of affairs. 

It was agreed that Mr. Bannerman should be asked to 
report to the International Committee for the Protection of 
Birds, who would, it was hoped, take the matter up. 


Novses on «A VISIT TO GRENOBLE MUSEUM. 


Mr. BANNERMAN went on to describe his recent visit to 
the Grenoble Museum of Natural History, of which he gave 


133 [ Vol. xlvii. | 


an interesting account. The galleries, he said, were admiably 
arranged and the mounted specimens well cared for. Of 
particular interest to visitors was the room given over to the 
Fauna of Dauphiné—the Department in which Grenoble is 
situated ; the instructive labels for the public accompanying 
the mounted specimens were a model of what such notices 
should be, and the arrangement brought great credit to the 
Director—M. Giraud. The collection is rich in local speci- 
mens of the Bearded Vulture, which is now excessively rare 
in the mountains of Dauphiné. Another room is given over 
to M. Lavauden’s private collection—all mounted. Included 
in this were the type and three other examples of Falco 
peregrinus blancheti, also the type of Sawxicola torquata 
defontanesit, and a remarkable aberrant Gypaétus barbatus 
grandts, shot in Sardinia—the usually yellowish underparts 
being almost white. 

Mr. Bannerman deplored the mounting of types, and 
hoped the practice would be discontinued in France. 


THE WHITE-BREASTED BARN-OWL IN THE CANARIES. 


Mr. BANNERMAN exhibited the first authentic specimen of 
a Barn-Owl from Grand Canary. The mummified body was 
seen hanging in a tree near Telde by Mr. Gerard Gurney, 
who secured it. As suspected, this Owl proves to be Tyto 
alba alba, similar to the Barn-Owl of Tenerife, and not 
T. a. gracilirostris, the form in the eastern islands of the 
Archipelago. 


REMARKS ON THE Eiaas or IrBy’s RAVEN. 


The Rev. F. C. R. Jourparn exhibited three clutches of 
egos of the Moorish or Irby’s Raven (Corvus corax tingi- 
tanus)—one of six eggs, one of seven, and one of eight. 
They showed considerable variation in colouring, the seven 
clutch, taken last year in Algeria, being of the pale blue 
type, while the eight clutch, from the province of Oran, 
W. Algeria, was heavily marked on a green ground. The 


Vol. xlvii.] 134 


last-mentioned nest was found with seven eggs on April 17th, 
1927, and on returning to the site next day eight eggs were 
found in the nest. The Ravens seem to form an exception 
to the rule that in the high north the number of eggs in the 
clutch is larger than in the south, for there is little difference 
between the average size of the clutch, whether laid in Green- 
land or Iceland or in the Mediterranean region. There is, 
however, a great difference in size between northern and 
southern eggs, and the eggs of C. corax rujicollis are no 
larger than those of Corvus corone in many cases. 


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Note on A Hysrip Hummine-Birp. 

Mr. A. L. Buruer exhibited a Humming-bird which he 
considered to be a hybrid between two Brazilian species, 
Thalurania glaucopis (Gm.) and T. eriphyle (Less.), the 
specimen showing a curious combination of the colouring of 
both these presumed parents, adult males of which were 
shown for comparison. 

In the hybrid (?) the crown is violet as in T. glaucopis, 
but shows two irregular patches of the brilliant green of the 
crown of 7. eriphyle ; the parts of the under surface, which 
are green in 7’. glaucopis and blue in T. eriphyle, are of a 
distinctly bluish-green ; there are distinct scapular patches 
of a greenish Prussian blue (the absence of shoulder-patches 
being a character of JT. glaucopis) ; the under tail-coverts 
are as in 7’. eriphyle, the longer ones blackish edged with 
white near the hase, instead of being entirely green as in 
T. glaucopis. 

The range of J. glaucopis in Brazil is more western than 
that of T. eriphyle, but both species occur in the states of 
Bahia, Minas, Rio, and 8. Paulo. 

The bird exhibited came from a collection formed by the 
late Senhor Monteiro of Lisbon and was without locality, 
but the skin appeared to be of Bahia make. 


135 [Vol. xlvi. 


NOTICES. 


The next Meeting of the Club, the last of the Session, 
will be held on Wednesday, June 8th, 1927, at PAGANI’S 
RESTAURANT, 42-48 Great Portland Street, W. 1. The 
Dinner at 7 p.m. 


Members intending to dine are requested to inform the 
Hon. Secretary, Dr. G. C. Low, 86 Brook Street, Grosvenor 
Square, W. 1. 


Members who intend to make any communication at the 
next Meeting of the Club are requested to give notice before- 
hand to the Editor, Mr. N. B. Kinnear, at the Natural History 
Museum, South Kensington, S.W.7, and to give him their 
MSS., for publication in the ‘Bulletin,’ not later than at 
the Meeting. 


BULLETIN 


OF THE 


ORNITHOLOGISTS’ CLUB. 


Wo. CCCXVI. 


Tue three-hundred-and-eleventh Meeting of the Club was 
held at Pagani’s Restaurant, 42-48 Great Portland Street, 
W. 1, on Wednesday, June 8th, 1927. 


Charman: G. M. Matuews. 


Members present :—H. C. Stuart Baker; D. BAanner- 
MAN; I’. J. F. Barrineton ; P. F. Bonyarp; A. L. Bururr; 
mini Percy Cox; Major S, 8S. ELower; Rev. F.:C:,R. 
JourpDAIN; N. B. Kinnear (Editor); Dr. G. CarmicHaEL 
Low (Hon. Sec. § Treas.) ; Dr. P. R. Lowe; N.S. Lucas ; 
C. W. Mackworru-Prazp; Col. R. MB&INERTZHAGEN; 
C. B. Rickert; H. C. Rozsinson; Lord Rortuscuixp ; 
D. Seru-Smita ; B. W. Tucker; Dr. Casty A. Woop. 


| Guests :—W.J. Crappock; L. R. Fawcus; W. Rowan. 


[July 14th, 1927. | a VOL. XLVII. 


Vol. xlvii. ] 138 


EXHIBITION OF DRAWINGS AND SPECIMENS OF MELANISTIC 
Forms oF VARIOUS FAMILIES oF BirRDs. 


Lord Roruscuitp, I.R.S., exhibited a series of drawings 
of melanistic mutants of various families of birds, and said :— 


Recently much interest has been aroused by the increasing 
numbers of the melanistic mutation of the Common Pheasant 
(mut. tenebrosus Hachisuka),and a great deal has been written 
and talked about this bird which is quite erroneous. The most 
frequent suggestion made is that these dark Pheasants, with 
their blue males and the females resembling the Red Grouse, 
are solely the result of hybridisation of the Common Pheasant 
with the Japanese Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus versicolor). 
This is not the case, as the above-mentioned dark Pheasant 
appears occasionally among pure wild P. c¢. colchicus, among 
the mongrel race of Pheasants common to most woods and 
coverts, often the offspring of three or four races of P. col- 
chicus,and also among Pheasants crossed with P. c. versicolor. 
In all three cases the mutation is similar: viz., the cocks have 
breast and flanks deep blue with white shaft-markings on 
flanks and no white neck-ring, while the hens are deep 
brown and heavily barred. In contrast to these the non- 
melanistic examples of the versicolor cross show in the cocks 
a strong DARK GREEN not BLUE suffusion on the breast and 
more or less red on the flanks, whilst the hens are grey like 
c. colchicus hens, only darker. This tendency to melanistic 
mutation is found in many birds besides those of which 
pictures are shown to-night ; and, in addition to the skins of 
certain normal birds exhibited for comparison and enumerated 
later, IT have brought the skins of the following, showing 
melanic mutants :— | 


1. Lanzus scHacH scHacH Linn. 


and melanic mutants L. fuscatus Less. and a more extreme 
form. 


2. SIPHIA STROPHIATA STOPHIATA Hodgs. 


and its melanic mutant. 


139 
3. H#MATOPUS O. OSTRALEGUS Linn. 


and melanic mutant H. meadewaldoi Bann. 


4. HIMANTOPUS LEUCOCEPHALUS Gould 
and melanic mutant HZ. novezealandie Gould. 


5. STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS (Linn.) 
and dark form. 


6. STERCORARIUS LONGICAUDUS (Vieill.) 
and dark phase. 


7. AESTRELATA NEGLECTA Schleg. 
and dark phase. 


8. NuMIDA GALEATA Pall. 
and violet-mauve mutant. 


9. ACCIPITER ALBIGULARIS Gray 
and mut. versicolor Rams. 


10. AccIPITER LEUCOSOMUS Sharpe 
and black mutant. 


11. AccIPTER OVAMPENSIS Gurn. 
and mut. helgerti Erl. 


12. ACCIPITER VENTRALIS Sclat. 
and mut. nigroplumbeus Lawr. 


13. CucuLus sonirarits Steph. 
and mut. clamosus Lath. 


[ Vol. xlvii. 


14. CLAMATOR JACOBINUS HYPOPINARIUS Cab. & Heine. 


and mut. serrator Sparrm. 


15. PoDICA SENEGALENSIS Vig. 
and mut. camarunensis Sjost. 


16. TcHITREA IGNEA (Reiehenow) 
and mut. camburnt Neum. 


17. RHIPIDURA FLABELLIFERA (Gm.) 
and mut. fuliginosa (Sparrm.). 


a2 


Vol. xlvii.] 140 


Besides these the following show dark mutants :—Pavo 
cristatus Linn. with P. cristatus mut. nigripennis Sclat. ; 
Catarrhactes pachyrhynchus Gray and mut. atratus Hutt. ; 
and Catarrhactes schlegeli Finsch, also with an entirely black 
mutant. Most of the white-breasted dark-backed Petrels 
(Procellariide) have a melanistic phase with the breast sooty- 
grey, brown, or black. Also Melanerpes rubrifrons Spix and 
M. cruentatus ; Cacomantis simus Peale and C. infuscatus 
Hartl. ; Attila spadicea Gm.and A. brasiliensis Less. ; Terp- 
siphone (Tchitrea) tricolor Fras. and TY. (7'.) rujfiventris 
Swains. ; Malaconotus perspictllatus Rchnw. and M. gladiator 
Rehnw.; Stphia strophiata strophiata Hodgs. with a mutant 
having the throat and breast entirely black; and Chloro- 
phoneus multicolor Gray and Chl. nigrithorax Sharpe are 
respectively the normal forms and melanic mutants. It 
should be here pointed out that the melanic mutants of the 
Golden Pheasant (mut. obscurus Schleg.) and of the Peacock 
(mut. nzgripennis Sclat.) are only known in captivity, never 
having been found in a wild state. It is also of importance 
to remember that there has been mueh difference of opinion 
on the question of the status of the ‘“‘ Oystercatchers”; Dr. 
Hartert has united them all into two species, the “ Pied ”’ 
Hematopus ostralegus and the “ Black” H. niger, each with 
numerous subspecies. Dr. Stresemann has, however—and he 
believed rightly,—pointed out that while the two African 
black forms niger (=mocquini) and meadewaldoi have the 
razor-edged bill of ostralegus, the other black races ater, 
unicolor, etc., have more rounded bills and are certainly dis- 
tinct from the two above-mentioned ones. He therefore was 
convinced that niger from South Africa, which is entirely 
black, and meadewaldot from the Canary Islands, with a little 
white on the wing, are two local melanic mutants of ostralequs 
which have in their respective habitats completely ousted the 
typical form. He exhibited the following drawings :— 


La. PHASIANUS COLCHICUS mut. tenebrosus Hachis. 


2a. CHRYSOLOPHUS PIOTUS mut. obscurus Schleg. 


141 [ Vol. xlvii. 


3a. LOPHOPHORUS IMPEJANUS (Lath.) 


and melanic mutant, 


4a, PeRDIx PERDIX (Linn,) 
and black-masked heavily-barred mutant. 
5a. PERDIX PERDIX mut. montanus Gm,, 
extreme form and less extreme form. 
6a. ALECTORIS RUFA RUFA (Linn.) 
and melanie mutant. 
7a. TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO PALLIDICINOTUS Ridgw. 
and melanic mutant. 


8a. TETRASTES BONASIA GRISEIVENTRIS Menzb. 


form. norm. volgensis Buturl. and melanic mutant grisei- 
ventris Menzb. 


9a. COTURNIX COTURNIX (Linn.) 
and ¢ 2 mut. lodoisie Verr. & des Murs. 


10a. APTENODYTES PATAGONICA Forst. 
and black-breasted mutation. 


lla. CHARMOSYNA STELLZ GOLIATHINA Rothsch. & Hart, 
and mut. atra Rothsch. | 


12a, CAPELLA GALLINAGO GALLINAGO (Linn.) 


and mut. sabinez: Vig., ordinary form and extreme form, 


13 a. ScoLOPAX RUSTICOLA Linn. 


and melanie mutant. 


14a. EREMOPHILA ALPESTRIS RUBEA Hensh. 
and mut. berlepscht Hart. 


Lord Roruscuitp also exhibited for comparison the 
following skins :— 


1. Various examples of PHASIANUS COLCHICUS x P. oc. 
VERSICOLOR, ¢. 


1. P. c. VERSICOLOR, ¢ 2. 


Vol. xlvii. | 142 


2. NUMIDA GALEATA Pall. 
3. CHRYSOLOPHUS PICTUS Linn., ¢ ¢. 


4, P. coLcHicus mut. tenebrosus Hachis., extreme ?. 


He said in the above exhibits the following called for 
some remarks :—No. 3a, Lophophorus impejanus, shows in a 
wild state strong individual variation, and the melanistic 
mutants are of four kinds: the one shown on the drawing, 
which is the nearest equivalent to P.c. colchicus mut. tene- 
brosus; then L. impejanus mut. chambayanus, intermediate 
between ubove and impejanus; thirdly, mut. mantowi, with the 
metallic green and copper of the hind-neck and interscapulum 
replaced by deep purple-blue ; and, fourthly, mut. obscurus, 
entirely dull black with the tail cinnamon-brown as in normal 
examples. No. 4a, Perdix perdix. The mutant is from Devon- 
shire, two examples being at Tring. No. 10. In this 
Goshawk there are three forms : first, the typical leucosomus, 
which is pure white all over; secondly, the black mutant 
figured; and, thirdly, the normal form, also figured, = etorques 
Salv. No. 11a. In some parts of the ranges of the three 
races of Charmosyna stelle the black mutant forms quite half 
the number of the examples observed, especially in the 
Weyland Mts. In the case of Cacomantis simus and C. in- 
fuscatus, and in Nos. 13 & 14, Cuculus solitarius and Clamator 
4. hypopinarius, many authors maintain that the birds treated 
here as melanistic mutants are good species or subspecies. 
Their reason is that in some parts of the ranges of these 
birds one form only is found. In answer to this, the facts 
are that in the majority of cases melanism proves to be a 
“ Dominant” factor, and throughout the animal kingdom 
many melanic forms have almost ousted the original form 
or are in a considerable majority ; and in the case of these 
Cuckoos this is certainly the fact, at all events, in parts of 
their range. 

In the case of Chlorophoneus multicolor and Ch. nigrithoraxr 
the black of the fore-neck and breast is very sharply defined 


143 | Vol. xlvil. 


and cut off from the orange-yellow of the belly, and does not 
run into it as the orange-red of the normal bird does ; all 
the same, such appearances are not unique among mutants, 
and it is almost certain that this also is only a case of 
melanistic mutation. In the case of Lanius schach schach 
Linn. and L. fuscatus Less., Monsieur Delacour’s series from 
Indo-China proves this to be undoubtedly a case of melanie 
mutation and not, as Mr. La ‘Touche maintains, two separate 
species. Another case of a similar mutation is that of 
Butorides brevipes (Hempr. & Hhr.), which is the melanic 
mutant of Butorides striatus atricapillus Afzel. The Spur- 
winged Geese are another example of melanic mutations, 
Plectropterus gambensis and Pl. g. riippellt Sclat., having as 
respective melanic mutants Pl. niger Sclat. and Pl. scioanus 
Salvad. The Skuas (Stercorarius) form an analogous case 
to the Petrels before mentioned, as each species of Skua is 
found in a light and dark phase. 

In conclusion, he said that he diagnosed the difference 
between a mutation and an aberration as consisting in the 
fact that a mutation paired with a similar mutation breeds 
true from the first generation, whereas an aberration did not 
breed true, or else displayed partial or entire Mendelian 
segregation. | 

These remarks were followed by a discussion, in which 
Mr. Bannerman, Mr. Stuarr Baker, Dr. P. R. Lows, 
Prof. Rowan, and others joined, from which it appeared 
that there was a considerable diversity of opinion on the 
subject. 


EXHIBITION OF A PICTURE OF THE DopDo. 


Dr. Casey A. Woop exhibited a remarkably fine water- 
colour painting of a Dodo (Didus cucullatus), formerly in the 
collection of Taylor White, F.R.S., of Wallingwells, Notts. 
This picture, together with nine hundred paintings of birds 
and other vertebrates, has recently been acquired by the 
Blacker Library of Zoology, McGill University, Montreal. 


Vol, xlvii. ] 144 


Dr. Casey Wood remarked that, though the present picture 
closely resembled the one in the British Museum, he had 
come to the conclusion, after a careful study, that it was a 
portrait of a different bird. 

Dr. Casey Wood also showed a photograph of a “ feather 
picture” in the Blacker Library which is supposed to 
represent a Dodo-—-it was made by Dionisio Minaggio, of 


Milan, in 1618. 


In conjunction with Mr. Casey Wood’s exhibition 
Lord RotuHscuHILD also exhibited the picture of the Reunion, 
or White Dodo, by Pieter Witthoos and its companion picture. 
He said that he had given a full account of this picture in 
‘The Ibis,’ vol. i. 11th series, 1919, p. 78, plate ii., so he 
would only say here that the first mention of the Reunion 
Dodo (Didus solitarius= Didus borbonicus) was that of Chief 
Officer Tatton in Castleton’s Voyage (‘ Purchas his Pilgrimes,’ 
1625 edition, vol. i. p. 331: “ Bourbon ou Reunion”). There 
are five pictures extant of the White Dodo taken from life, 
viz., two by Pieter Witthoos and two by Pieter Holsteyn—all 
four from a living adult female which was brought to Amster- 
dam between the years 1670 and 1693. The fifth picture is 
that published by Frauenfeldt of the young bird brought alive 
to the Vienna Imperial Palace of Schoenbrunnen. ; 


On A NEW Race oF MuscrcarvuLéA MELANOLEUCA. 


Mr. C. BopEn Koss forwarded the following communi- 
cation :— | 

When Mr. H. ©. Robinson and I recorded specimens of 
the Little Pied Flycatcher from Annam merely as Musei- 
capula melanoleuca (Hodgs.) in ‘ Ibis,’ 1919, p. 446, we did so 
because, while we were able to note differences between 
them and M. m. westermanni Sharpe, of the Malay States, 
we were at the time unable to say whether they differed from 
the typical form inhabiting India and Burma. 

With females from the Naga Hills now before me—which 
are not, as Mr. E. 8. Baker says (Fauna Brit. India, Birds, 
ii. 1924, p. 224), the Malayan race, but are far browner and 


145 [ Vol. xlvii. 


probably belong to the typical form—I find that Annam 
birds differ in being greyer, much less brown, above. As 
they are also paler and greyer, less bluish, above than 
Malayan birds and slightly tinged with ochraceous on the 
rump, they represent a subspecies which may be known as 


Muscicapula melanoleuca langbianis Kloss, subsp. nev. 
Type in the British Museum: adult female collected at 
Arbre Broyé, Langbian Massif, South Annam, 5400 ft., on 
14th May, 1918, by ©. Boden Kloss. Wing 60 mm. 
Registered No. 1927.6. 1.1. 
South-eastern females (hasseltt Temm., of Java) are, as 
regards brownness, very near to the north-western birds. 


DESCRIPTIONS OF Two NEW BirRDSs FROM BonIN ISLANDS 
AND VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN. 


On behalf of Mr. T. T. Momryama. the Editor forwarded 
the following description :— 


Zosterops palpebrosa boninsime, subsp. nov. 


This race is nearest in size to Z. p. stejnegert Seebohm 
(1891) from Seven Islands (type-locality—Hatidio-sima), 
and is intermediate between that form and Z. p. alani 
Hartert (1905) from Volcano or Ywé Islands (type-locality— 
“S$. Dionisio” error, restricted type-locality, Sulphur Is- 
land), but the bill is decidedly shorter than Z. p. stejnegeri 
and distinctly longer and broader than Z. p. alani. 

Measurements :— 


Z. p. steynegert. Z.p.boninsime. Z. p. alan. 
amecio?g. log & Ibo. 19g &1389. 


mm, mm, mm, 
Exposed culmen...... 15-17 125-15 12-14 
Bill trom nostril,..... - 9-11 8-9°5 75-9 
Width of bill at nostril 4°5-5:3 4-4°5 4-4'8 
Height of billat nostril 3°5-4°5 3°5-4:5 3-4'2 
RVING cay, peme eee 59-645 59-64°5 56-63°5 


BSL oc. ais ae ae 43°5-51 45-51 44-52 


Vol. xlvii.] 146 


Type in Athenzei Ornithologici Momiyamici: ¢@ ad., Oh- 
mura, Titi-sima, Bonin Islands, Dec. 13th, 1924. Collected 
by T. T. Momiyama. No. 1266. 

Distribution. Probably confined in Bonin Islands. 

Material examined. 44 birds from Hatidio-sima, 1 only 
from Awoga-sima, 2 from Miyake-sima, of Z. p. steynegert ; 
25 from San Alessandro I.,7 from Sulphur I., of Z. p.alani ; 
and 22 from Titi-sima and 11 from Haha-sima, of Bonin 
Islands new race. 


Horornis diphone iwootoensis, subsp. nov. 

Nearest to HH. d. diphone (Kitilitz) (1830) from Bonin 
Islands, but the bill thicker and stouter and the tail and 
tarsus longer. 

Measurements :— 


HT, d. wwootoensis. HT. d. diphone. 
tale. 89. 163. lhe os 
mm. mm. mm. mm. 
Exposed culmen...... 13°5-14 = 12°5-18 13°5-14 125-13 
Width of bili at nostril. 45-5 3-7-4 37-A5 aes 
Height of both man- 
dibles at nostril .. 3°5-4 2°6-3°5 3-3'5 2:5-3 
RW sane e ostiaescat Gna > 57:°5-60 49°5-52 555-585  47-49°5 
Sec cee ates piss 59°5, 63-66'5 55-59 63-66 52-55 
TARSWUStY. s\ Aas ac ale Oe 23-25 20-22 93-24. 19°5-21 


Typein Athenei Ornithologici Momiyamici: ¢ ad., Moto- 
yama, Sulphur Island, Voleano Islands, Dec. 20th, 1924. 
Collected by T. T. Momiyama. No. 1297. 

Distribution. Probably confined to the Volcano Islands. 

Material examined. 8 S and2 2 from Sulphur Island or 
Naka-Yw6-t6, 3¢ and 6 2? from San Alessandro Island 
or Kita-Yw6-té, of the new form. 9 ¢ and 9 2? from Titi- 
sima or Peel Island,6 ¢ and 6 ? from Haha-sima or Coffin 
Island, 1 ¢ and 2 9? from Mei-sima,1 ? from Mukou-sima 
or Plymouth Island, of the Bonin Islands race. 


Mr. Davin BANNERMAN exhibited some interesting birds 
obtained this year by Admiral Lynes during his travels in 


147 (Vol. xlvii. 


South Africa, and described a new Moor-Chat and-a new 
Swamp-Warbler trom the Benguella Province of Angola. 


Myrmecocichla lynesi, sp. nov. 


Forehead, crown, and nape brown, the freshly-moulted 
feathers broadly fringed with grey and buff, so that the bird 
appears to have a light head spotted with brown until the 
margins wear off. A patch of short dark bristles in front of 
each eye. Mantle, back, coverts, and secondaries brown with 
pale margins. Feathers along the bend of the wing whitish. 
Rump and upper tail-coverts white. Basal half of primaries 
white, forming a distinct wing-patch ; remainder blackish. 
Rectrices white at the base for one-third their length, 
remaining part blackish-brown. Chin white ; throat buftish- 
white. Remainder of the under surface greyish-white 
marbled with brown, caused by the exposed dark middles to 
the feathers. Soft feathers of the flanks brown and buff. 
Under tail-coverts white. Bill black with short stiff rictal 
bristles. Feet black. 

Bill, from nasal aperture, 12mm. ; wing 104 (3rd primary 
in moult) ; tail 78 ; tarsus 35. 


\\« Type in the British Museum: ¢ ad. (in moult), Huambo, 
“ Beengulla Prov., Angola, 26th Feb., 1927. Admiral H. 


Lynes coll. No. 424. 

Habitat. Grassy moors, 5500 ft. above the sea. The 
female resembles the male and is likewise two-thirds through 
its moult. The head, however, is much more uniform brown, 
tle pale edges of the feathers having been worn off. 

This very distinct species is quite unlike any known 
Myrmecocichla, and Admiral Lynes, in whose honour the 
bird is named, is to be congratulated on such an interesting 
discovery. 


Bradypterus brachypterus benguellensis, subsp. nov. 
This new Swamp-Warbler resembles somewhat B. 6. 
centralis and B. msiri, but is darker than either. It is also. 
a larger bird than centralis, the wing of the male being 65 and, 


Vol. xlvii. | 148 


of the female 58 mm., while the tail from the base measures 
70 (much worn) and 80 mm. (fresh moulted) respectively. 
The darker coloration and the shorter, more slender bill 
(11-12 mm. exposed) distinguish it from the typical species. 

This is, in fact, the darkest member of the group which 
T have examined; the freshly-moulted feathers of the upper 
parts are deep brown and entirely lack the rich chestnut 
tinge of msiri. As in B. b. brachypterus, there are a few 
blackish streaks on the lower part of the throat. 

The male, which has not quite completed its moult, was 
courting a female (not obtained). Admiral Lynes was of 
opinion, from examination of the sexual organs, that the 
birds had not commenced to breed, but were on the point of 
doing so. 

Bill slaty-black, with basal half of lower mandible 
yellowish-white; bill-lining pale primrose; palate delicate 
flesh in male, dusky with flesh tint in female; legs and feet 
dirty grey. 

The stomach contained insects. 

Type in the British Museum: ¢ ad,, Chicuma, Benguella 
Prov., Angola, 9th Feb., 1927. Admiral Lynes collection. 


No. 348. 
Habitat. “ A swamp in grass-land,’’ Chicuma, 5400 ft., 


and “‘ open swamp,” Huambo, 5500 ft., Benguella Province. 


On A NEW Race oF Rock-TuHrusH, VonrircoLa RUFIVENTRIS 
(ERYTHROGASTER auctorum) *. 

Mrs. A. ©. Murinertzaacen forwarded the following 
description of a new race of Rock-Thrush :— 


Monticola rufiventris sinensis, subsp. nov. 

Male. They appear darker on the upper parts, but this 
may not be constant, and cannot be decided till more 
specimens are available, 

Female. Distinguished from the female VM. r. rujiventris 
by the darker, more slate-coloured upper parts ; lower back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts barred and with horseshoe- 


* Vide Oberholser, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. xxxiv. 1921, p. 49. 


149 [ Vol. xlvii. 


shaped markings of ash-grey instead of yellowish-buff as in 
typical M. r. rufiventris (two Chinese specimens examined 
had some feathers of the rump with yellowish-buff bars). 

The underparts are usually darker, the ground-colour 
black-brown, barred lightish buff; in the typical form the 
underparts are barred black-brown and yellowish-buff ; 
worn specimens of I. r. rufiventris with yellow tips and bars 
abraded have underparts almost as dark as the Chinese 
birds. 

Measurements: 5 &, wing 123-128 mm.; 7 2, wing 
119-130 mm. 7 

Material examined. 5 6 & 7 2 from Fokien and Yunnan. 

Type in the British Museum: ¢?, Kuatun, N.W. Fokien, 
Qist May, 1927. Reg. No. 1905. 12. 24.349. Collected by 
C. B. Rickett. 

Distribution. Southern China. Specimens examined from 
Fokien and Yunnan. la Touche gives Kwangtung, and 
West Szechuen where they are resident. Nepal and Sikkim 
birds appear to be intermediate between the typical and the 
Chinese form. 


Mr. G. M. Maruews forwarded the following corrections 
to ‘Systema Avium Australasianarum,’ vol. i. p. 424 :— 

Place Centropus bicolor Lesson on p. 424 as synonym of 
Pyrrhocentor celebensis (Q.et G.) (p.423), and page 403 delete 
first reference, 1.e., Collocalia f. spodiopygia. 


DESCRIPTION OF AN APPARENTLY NEW FORM OF JAY 
FROM THE ISLAND OF HOKKAIDO, JAPAN. 


On behalf of Dr. N. Kuropa, the Editor forwarded the 
following description :— 


Garrulus glandarius pallidifrons, subsp. nov. 
DMagnosis. Similar to Garrulus glandarius taczanowskiz 
Lonnberg, of Sakhalin, but distinguishable from it by the 
foxy-red colour of the head and neck duller and the 
general coloration of the forehead and nasal bristles are 
on an average constantly much more paler buff instead of 


Vol. xlvii.] 150 


intense foxy-red colour. The underparts also paler and the 
throat buffy-white instead of more foxy-red colour wash than 
in those of taczanowskii. (10 specimens examined.) 

Type. & ad., Uenai, Yufutsu-gun, Prov. Iburi, Hokkaido, 
N. Japan, 22.xi.1925. H. Orii coll. N. Kuroda coll., 
No. 9924. 

Measurements of Type (3). Wing 178 mm.; tail 157 ; 
tarsus 41 ; entire culmen 34; depth of bill at nostril 1271; 
width of upper mandible at anterior of nasal bristles 8°5. 

Measurements of other specimens :— 


Depth of Width of upper 


Sex. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. aS bill at mandible at anterior 
culmen. sf ; 
nostril. of nasal bristles. 
Sia. esses 1765-1775 | 154-159 | 41°5-43°5 | 30-31°5 | 11°9-12°5 75-81 
6Q 171-177 150-153 38—42°5 | 31°5-34 11:5-12°5 75-8 


Habitat. Apparently confined to the island of Hokkaido, 
North Japan. 

Remarks. Specimens from Central Korea and South Man- 
churia {Dalni) are identical with Momiyami’s okaz * (1927) 
of Korea, but if wssuriensis Buturlin (1910) is wholly 
separable from brandtii as a good form, okai seems to be 
merely a synonym of ussuriensis. Two specimens from 
Kunashiri, Kurile Islands, do not differ from taczanowsku and 
are apparently separable from the new form from Hokkaido. 


Mr. E. C. Stuart Baxer forwarded the following de- 
scription of a new subspecies of Fishing-Hagle :— 


Ichthyophaga ichthyaétus plumbeiceps, subsp. nov. 
Similar in every way to J. i. ichthyaétus, except in being 
much smaller and in fully adult plumage rather less cinereous 
brown above, a difference already pointed out by Legge. 
Measurements. Wing 420 to 435 mm., once 445; tail 
232 to 242; tarsus about 85 to 90 ; culmen about 409 to 47. 


* Garrulus brandtii okai Momiyama, Journal of Chosen Natural 
History Society, no. 4, pp. 5, 6, Jan, 10, 1927 (Koryo, C. Korea). 


£51 [ Vol. xlvii. 


In the typical form the wing is generally between 460 and 
515 mm., once 450. The culmen is 47 to 54 mm. 

Distribution. Ceylon only. There is no material available 
to show whether birds in South Travancore are of this small 
race or of the larger northern form. 

Type in the British Museum: ¢, Trincomalee, Ceylon, 
15th June, 1875. Collected by Col. W. V. Legge. Ree. 
No. 1878. 10.4. 86. 

Material examined. Typical form 22. Ceylon form 
7 specimens. 


Mr. Baker also renamed the Vulture Gyps indicus tenui- 
rostris :— 


The name tenuirostris of Hume (Str. Feath. vii. p. 326: 
1878) is unavailable, as Gray in 1869 in his ‘ Hand-List’ gives 
this name and tenuiceps as synonyms of G. indicus. © 

Hodgson’s name tenuiceps is a nomen nudum, and Gray 
again gives it as a nomen nudum in 1846. Neither tenwe- 
rostris nor tenuiceps were therefore available for use by 
Hume in 1878. 

On account of its extremely bald head and neck, I name 
it Gyps indicus nudiceps, nom. nov. 


New Brrps rrom INDo-CHINA. 


M. J. DeLacour sent the description of forty new forms of 
birds discovered and collected by M. P. Jabouille, Mr. W. 
P. Lowe, and himself during their third Expedition to French 
Indo-China in 1926-1927:— 


Phasianus colchicus takatsukas@, subsp. nov. 
Allied to P. ¢. torquatus Gm., from 8.H. China and N.E. 


Tonkin, but generally darker, especially the yellow colour of 
the flanks and upper back, which is richer and deeper ; 
the chestnut of the scapulars and greater wing-coverts is also 
of a much darker shade, more maroon. The lower back is 
browner and darker and the purplish-lilac fringe of the 
rectrices is much deeper. The white eyebrow is present in 
all our specimens. 

The female is altogether darker than P. ¢. torquatus with 
coarser markings. 


Vol. xlvii. | 152 


3. Iris orange-yellow ; bill greenish-white ;. legs and feet 
light grey. 

?. Iris brown; bill and legs horny-grey. 

Measurements: 3. Wing 243 mm. ¢. Wing 210 mm. 

Types in the Paris Museum. ¢ & 92. Langson, Hastern 
Tonkin, Jan. 12 and 17, 1927. Nos. 2599 and 2660. 

Material examined. Nine examples. 

Norrt.—Named in honour of Prince N. Takatsukasa. 

Ring-necked Pheasants, obtained in N.E. Tonkin (Ngan- 
son), differ from Langson specimens, and can be referred to 
P. c. torquatus, but area slightly darker yellow on the 
upper back than in most Chinese specimens. 


Tropicoperdix charltoni tonkinensis, subsp. nov. 

Differs considerably from 7. charltoni charltoni (HKyton), 
from Siam and the Malay States, in having the ear-coverts 
mingled grey and chestnut instead of plain russet-chestnut, 
a smaller chestnut area on the breast, not extending to the 
sides of the neck, no black collar on the throat and no black 
stripes on the sides of the neck. The upper parts and flanks 
are more blotched with black, and the spotted plumage of 
the lower breast reaches lower and runs into the buffish- 
yellow of the abdomen. Iris brown; eyelids grey with red 
border ; bill greenish-yellow with red base; legs and feet 
greenish-yellow, nails yellow. 

Measurements: 8. Wing 157 mm.; tail 80; tarsus 40; 
culmen 20. 

Types in the Paris Museum. Backan (N.E. Tonkin), 
Jan. , 2020.. gNo, 2340, 

Material examined. Highteen specimens. 


Sphenurus sieboldi murielz, subsp. nov. 


Differs from other S. steboldi (Temm.) in its much smaller 
size, paler and less yellow head, throat, and breast, and in 
having avery distinct orange tinge on the upper breast. The 
whole colour is greyer and less yellowish. The female is very 
similar to that of S. seeboldi sieboldi, but decidedly smaller 
and slightly less yellow on the forehead, throat, and breast. 


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Iris: inner ring blue, outer ring pink; bill blue with 
horny tip ; legs and feet dark crimson. 

Measurements: g. Wing 175 mm.; tail 123; tarsus 22; 
culmen 20. 2. Wing 180 mm.; tail 124; tarsus 20; 
culmen 18. 

Types inthe British Museum. 4. Hanoi, Central Tonkin, 
Jan. 17,1927. No. 2823. 9°. Tam Dao, Central Tonkin, 
Nov. 30, 1926. No. 1398. Registered No. 1927.6.5.1 & 2. 

Material examined. Three examples. 

Nots.—Named in honour of Mrs. Alfred Ezra. 


Megalema lagrandieri rothschildi, subsp. nov. 


Differs from Cochin-Chinese and Annamese specimens in 
having the frontal plumes and bristles crimson (with obsolete 
grey basis) instead of yellow and crimson, and the general 
colour slightly darker. 
Iris brown; bill greenish-grey with dark culmen; legs 
and feet dusky green. 
Measurements: §. Wing 138 mm. ; tail 109; tarsus 30; 
culmen 42. 
Type in the Bettish Museum. 2. Backan, N.E. Tonkin, Aarss 
Dec. 24, 1926. No. 2136. (fBucr0c wit ppb) 
Material eaamined. Fifteen examples. 


Nots.—Named in honour of Lord Rothschild. 


Cyanops franklini tonkinensis, subsp. nov. 
Resembles C. f. franklim (Blyth), but distinguishable by 


the blue, not so yellowish, general colour and the much 
reduced black stripes on the sides of the head. 

Iris brown; bill black with grey gape and base of 
maxilla ; legs and feet greenish-grey. 

Measurements: §. Wing 101 mm.; tail 70; tarsus 24 ; 
culmen 24. 

Type in the Paris Museum. ¢. Tam Dao, Central 
Tonkin, Nov. 11, 1926. No. 1220. 

Material examined. Nineteen specimens. 

Norr.—Specimens from Laos and Annam belong te a 
widely different form, C. f. auricularis Rob. & Kloss. 

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Thereiceryx faiostrictus pallidus, subsp. nov. 

Birds from Tonkin differ from those from Annam and 
Cochin China by the slightly larger size, the paler yellowish- 
green colour, and in having the head-feathers with broader 
light grey margins. 

Tris hazel-brown; bill horny-grey with ace culmen ; 
legs and feet greenish-grey. 

Measurements: 3. Wing 120 mm.; tail 82; tarsus 24 ; 
culmen 28. 

Type in the Paris Museum. ¢. Backan, N.E. Tonkin, 
Dee. 7, 1926. No. 1603. 

Material examined. Twenty-three specimens. 


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Gecinulus grantia indochinensis, subsp. nov. “ 

Intermediate between G. g. grantia (McClell.) from the 
Himalayas and G. g. viridanus Slater from 8. China, but 
nearer to the latter, from which it differs in the more 
chestnut mantle and redder wings. From G. g. grantia it 
is distinguished by the larger size and less bright colour. 

Iris red; eyelids green; bill greenish-white; legs and 
feet greenish-grey. 

Measurements: 8. Wing 130 mm; tail 110; tarsus 21 ; 
culmen 23. | 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Backan, N.H. Tonkin, 
Dec. 2, 1926. No. 1616. Registered No. 1927. 6.5.3. 

Material examined. Seven specimens. 

Norz.—Specimens from 8. Annam are identical with the 
Tonkinese series. 


Blythipicus pyrrhotis intermedius, subsp. nov. ~~ 
Larger and not so dark as B. p. annamensis Kinnear from 
S. Annam, but with broader and less distant dark bars on 
the wings. Very much darker than B. p. sinensis (Rickett). 
Iris reddish-brown; bill light yellow ; legs and feet dark 
greenish-grey. 
Measurements: g. Wing 147 mm.; tail 121; tarsus 24 ; 


culmen 46. 


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Type in the British Museum. 4. Backan, N.E. Tonkin, 
Dec. £21926. No. 1662. Registered No. 1927.6.5.4. 


Material examined. Thirteen examples. 


Anthocichla phayrei obscura, subsp. nov. 
Much darker than A. p. phayret Blyth from Burma and 
Siam, with dark blackish nape. 
Iris brown; bill black; legs and feet horny flesh-colour. 


Measurements: 9. Wing 106 mm; tail 63; tarsus 29; 


culmen 22. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Lakes Babé, N.E. 
Tonkin, Dec. +2; 1926. No. 2053. Registered No. 1927. 
6.5.5. Lae: 

Material examined. Three female specimens. 

Nore.—The male is unknown. A single specimen from 
Laos agrees with the Tonkin birds. 


Pitta douglasi tonkinensis, subsp. nov. 

Birds from Tonkin are similar to those from Hainan, but 
very much larger. Like’ all Pittas of the nepalensis group, 
there is much individual variation. 

Iris brown; bill brown; culmen black; legs and feet 
horny flesh-colour. 

Measurements: $§. Wing 125 mm; tail 66; tarsus 54 ; 
culmen 26. 

. Type in the British Museum. 4. Backan, N.H. Tonkin, 
Dec. 23, 1926. No. 2083. Registered No. 1927. 6.5. 6. 

Material examined. Sixteen specimens. 

Nore.—In my report of our 1925-1926 Expedition 
(Recherches Orn. dans les Provinces du Tranninh, de Thua- 
Thien et de Kontoum, p. 84) I proposed to consider all the 
Pittas of the old subgenus Hydrornis as subspecies of P. ni- 
palensis. The fact that during the present expedition we 
obtained many specimens of two distinct forms, P. d. ton- 
kinensis and P. n. nipalensis, in the same localities and at the 
same time, and that in the winter months and in what seems 
to be the northernmost territory of the birds, obliges me to 


change my opinion on the classification of these Pittas. 
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Vol. xlvii.| 156 


_ I now consider that there are four species and two subspecies, 
as follows :— 
Pitta nipalensis nipalensis (Hodgs.). 
P.n. soror Wardl. Rams. 
P. douglasi douglasi O.-Grant. 
P. douglasi tonkinensis Delacour. 
P. oates. (Hume). 
P, schneider Hartert. 


Rhipidura albicollis cinerascens, subsp. nov. 


Differs from the typical form and from R. a. atrata Salv. . 
in its general colour being of a less blackish-grey and in 
having the chin spotted with white. 

Tris dark brown ; bill, legs, and feet black. 

Measurements: 3. Wing 75 mm.; tail 105; tarsus 15 ; 
culmen 9. 

Type in the Paris Museum. <6. Djiring, 8S. Annam, 
March 17, 1927. No. 3970. 

Material examined. Ten examples. 


Pericrocotus brevirostris tonkinensis, subsp. nov. )) 
Near to P. b. affinis McClell. from Assam and N. Burma, 


but differs in the smaller size and deeper crimson-carmine 
colour without any yellow tinge. Females are lighter in 
colour, especially on rump and throat, and have a greener 
mantle. 

Iris dark brown; bill, legs, and feet black. 

Measurements: 3. Wing 88 mm.; tail 95; tarsus 12; 
culmen 9. 

Type in the British Museum.  ¢ & ¢?. Backan, N.E. 
Tonkin, Dec. 31 and Dec. 23, 1926. Nos. 2298 and 2108. 
Registered No. 1927.6.5. 7 & 8. 

Material exanuned. Hight specimens. 


Pycnonotus hainanus indochinensis, subsp. nov. 
Continental specimens from Tonkin and Annam differ 
from Hainan birds in the much narrower dark brown patch 
on the nape and the greyer, less yellowish, underparts. 


nay [ Vols siya. 


Iris brown ; bill, legs, and feet black. 

Measurements: g. Wing 85 mm.; tail 81; tarsus 20; 
culmen 13. 

Type in the Paris Museum. 6. Langson, KE. Tonkin, 
Jan. 14,1927. No. 2625. 


Material examined. Twenty specimens. 


Pycnonotus sinensis meridionalis, subsp. nov. 

Resembles in size P. s. stresemanni La Touche, but differs 
in having a smaller white patch on the hind part of the 
crown and a narrower dark brown one on the nape. The 
underparts are greyer, less yellowish, and the olive-yellow 
border on the wing-feathers narrower. 

Iris brown; bill, legs, and feet black. 

Measurements: g. Wing 87 mm.; tail 83; tarsus 21; 
culmen 13. 

Type in the Paris Museum. ¢. Langson, HE. Tonkin, 
Janz 12, 4927, Ne. 2582. 

Material examined. Nine examples. 


Dryonastes perspicillatus annamensis, subsp. nov. 

Differs from D. p. perspicillatus (Gm.) from China and 
Tonkin in having less black on the forehead and eyebrows, 
the black colour being less deep. The crown is lighter and 
more yellowish, and the whole plumage is paler and slightly 
grey. 

Iris reddish-brown ; bill black ; legs and feet brown. 

Measurements: 2. Wing 126 mm.; tail 152; tarsus 40; 
culmen 22. 

Type in the Paris Museum. ¢. Hué, C. Annam, April 9, 
1926. No. 36. 


Material examined. Ten specimens. 


» Garrulax pectoralis robini, subsp. nov. 
Resembles G. p. picticollis Swinh. from China, but smaller. 
The upper parts are of a more olive and darker brown colour, 
with a much narrower or less bright rufous collar on the 


hind-neck. 


Vol. xlvii.] 158 


Iris brown ; bill black with base of maxilla grey ; legs 
and feet grey. 

Measurements: &. Wing 130 mm.; tail 142 ; tarsus 44; 
culmen 24. : 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Tam Dao, C. Tonkin, 
Dec. 2, 1926. No. 1473. Registered No. 1927. 6.5.9. 

Material examined. Six specimens. . 

Note.—Named in honour of M. R. Robin, Resident 
Supérieur of Tonkin. Birds collected in Laos (Tranninh) in 
1925-1926 belong to the present race. 


. Garrulax moniliger tonkinensis, subsp. nov. 


W 

Near to G. m. melli Stresemann from §8.E. China, but 
of a darker and less ochraceous-brown above and with 
flanks of a deeper reddish-orange. 

Iris yellow; bill black with light edges; legs and feet 
grey. . 

Measurements: ¢. Wing 120 mm.; tail 133; tarsus 43 ; 
culmen 23. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Backan, N.E. Tonkin, 
Dec. 12, 1926. No. 1835. Registered No. 1927. 6.5.10. 

Material examined. Ten specimens. 


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1 Trochalopterum milnei indochinensis, subsp. nov. 


Resembles T. m. sharpe: Rippon in the grey ear-coverts, 
but differs in the breast-feathers being olive-brown edged 
with grey, giving a very particular brown-spotted appear- 
ance. The whole plumage is browner, less olive, and the 
erimson colour en the wing and tail is deeper. 

Iris brown ; bill, feet, and legs black. 

Measurements: 6. Wing 109 mm.; tail 117; tarsus 34; 
culmen 19. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Tam Dao, Central 
Tonkin, Dec. 5, 1926. No. 1569. Registered No. 1927. 
6.0. Lis 

Material examined. Ten specimens. 


rag [ Vol. xlvii. 


» Pomatorhinus ruficollis saturatus, subsp. nov. 

Nearer to P. r. reconditus Bangs & Philip from Yunnan, 
but darker above, with the sides of the neck and nuchal half- 
collar of a much deeper chestnut; chestnut spots on the 
breast redder and deeper. Size decidedly smaller. 

Iris reddish-brown ; bill pale yellow, culmen black ; legs 
and feet grey. | 

Measurements: 3. Wing 73 mm.; tail 70; tarsus 28 ; 
culmen 17. 

Type in the British Museum. <. Tam Dao, C. Tonkin, 
Nov. 26, 1926. No. 1285. Registered No. 1927.6.5.12. 


Material examined. Sixteen specimens. 


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»Pomatorhinus ferruginosus orientalis, subsp. nov. 


Resembles P. f. marie Wald., but is smaller and darker 
brown above; the feathers of the crown have a narrow dark 
border, giving a slightly scaly aspect; underparts whiter. 

Iris yellow ; bill red; legs and feet green. 

Measurements: g. Wing 92 mm.; tail 113; tarsus 32; 
culmen 26. . 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Tam Dao, Central 
Tonkin, Dec.2,1926. No.1485. Registered No. 1927.6.5. 23. 


Material examined. Three specimens. 


* Pomatorhinus tickelli tonkinensis, subsp. nov. ~ 


Very close to our P. t. laotianus, but with a shorter bill 
and the colour less greyish, more reddish-brown. The 
chestnut of the supercilium and sides of the neck is richer, 
with darker buff spots; the ear-coverts are rufous-buff, 
instead of brownish-grey. J eathers of the sides of the breast 
and flanks lighter grey with wider white stripe. 

Iris brown ; bill grey, darker above; feet and legs horny- 
orey. 

Measurements: 8. Wing 104 mm.; tail 110; tarsus 40; 
culmen 38. ; 

Type in the British Museum. (¢. Lakes Bahé, N.E. 
Tonkin, Dec. 20, 1926. No. 2071. Registered No. 1927. 
fa: o. 13. 

Material examined. Seven specimens. 


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* Pomatorhinus tickelli friesi, subsp. nov.) K 


Differs from P. t. laotianus and P. t. tonkinensis in its 
smaller size and shorter bill. The upper plumage is of a 
brighter chestnut-brown above, the flanks and breast-feathers 
paler with a broader central white streak. The chestnut 
patches on the sides of the neck much reduced and partly 
replaced by greyish-brown spotted with white instead of 
buff. 

Iris brown ; bill, legs, and feet grey. 

Measurements: 2. Wing 100 mm.; tail 105; tarsus 34; 
culmen 31. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Thua-Luu, C. Annam, 
Feb. 13, 1927. No. 3153. Registered No. 1927. 6.5.14. 

Material examined. Four specimens. 

Nots.— Named in honor of M. C. Fries, Résident Supérieur 
in 2einam, 


Jabouilleia, gen nov. 

Intermediate between the Pomatorhinus of the tickella 
croup and Rimator. Differs from the first-mentioned genus 
in having the tail shorter than the wing and a very different 
bill, not so long, more compressed, with a higher ridge; 
nostrils are open and oval. 

From Aimator, in which it was previously placed, the 
new genus differs in the much larger size, less Wren-like, 
with a longer tail, stronger and coarser bill and legs. 
Culmen ridge higher. 

Type: Rimator danjoui Rob. & Kloss. (‘ Ibis,’ 1919, p. 578. 
no. 133). 

Norre.—Named in honor of my friend and associate- 
ornithologist, M. P. Jabouille. 


- Jabouilleia danjoui parvirostris, subsp. nov. 


Differs from J. d. danjow (Rob. & Kloss.) from 8S. Annam 
in being smaller and witha shorter bill. The rufous patches 
on the sides of the neck purer and larger, the throat and 
upper breast pure white and centre of breast white with some 


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dark brown and chestnut spots ; the centre of abdomen is 
white, faintly washed with brown. 

Iris brown; bill horny-grey; legs and feet fleshy- 
brown. 

Measurements: g. Wing 72 mm.; tail 61; tarsus 26 ; 
culmen 22. 

Type in the British Museum. 6. Bana, C. Annam, 
Aug. 14, 1926. No. 725. Registered No. 1927.6.5.15. 

Material examined. Two specimens. 


- Drymocataphus pusillus, sp. nov. 

Upper parts brown, the feathers of the crown with faint 
dark edgings, the rump and upper tail-coverts brighter. 
Feathers round the eyes, cheeks, and ear-coverts grey, mottled 
with brown; throat pale rufous, each feather terminated 
with blackish, producing a speckled appearance; rest of 
underparts olive-rufous. 

Iris brown ; bill horny-grey ; legs and feet brown. 

Measurements: g. Wing 56 mm.; tail 55; tarsus 20 ; | 
culmen 11. 

Type in the SareMuseum. ¢. Tam Dao, C. Tonkin, <77/511/ | 
Dec. 12, 1926. No. 1475. W fmaicae adda | 

Material examined. A single example. | 

Nore.—This very distinct bird is certainly rare and | 
difficult to obtain, as it lives on high mountains among the | 

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dense undergrowth. For that reason I venture to name it, 
although reluctantly, as one specimen only, in poor condition, 
is available. 


, Corythocichla brevicaudata obscura, subsp. nov. 


A very dark race, nearer to C. b. leucosticta Sharpe from 
the Malay States, but still darker and of a more olive-brown. ) 
Wing-spots white. : 

Iris reddish-brown; bill blackish above, grey below ; legs ; 
and feet dark brown. ) 

Measurements: 6. Wing 70 mm.; tail 54; tarsus 27; 
culmen 16. 


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Type in the British Museum. <¢. Tam Dao, C. Tonkin, 
Dec. 2, 1926. No. 1495. Registered No. 1927. 6.5.16. 

Material ecamined. Ten specimens. 

‘ Corythocichla brevicaudata rufiventer, subsp. nov. U 

Nearer to C. b. venningt (Harington) from the Shan 
States, but the feathers on the upper parts with broader dark 
edgings, and the breast,j abdomen, and under tail-coverts 
of a much richer and more reddish-fulvous. Wing-spots 
buff. 

Iris reddish-brown ; bill blackish above, grey below; feet 
and legs fleshy-brown. 

Measurements: g. Wing 56 mm.; tail 45; tarsus 23; 
culmen 14. 

Type in the British Museum. 6. Djiring, 8. Annam, 
March 12, 1927. No. 38756. Registered No. 1927. 6.5.17. 


Material examined. Two specimens. 


, Actinodura ramsayi kinneari, subsp. nov. 0 


Resembles A. 7. minor Kinnear from Western Tonkin, 
but differs in having the upper parts of a slightly more 
ochraceous brown ; crown of a lighter brown, less chestnut 
on the forehead; wings with a much more reddish tinge, 
especially on primaries; deeper black cross-bars, all the 
different markings being more distinct, Primary coverts 
and bastard-wing almost pure black. Underparts lighter 
and of a more buffish-brown. 

Tris brown ; bill, feet, and legs grey. 

Measurements: ¢. Wing 88 mm.; tail 119; tarsus 29 ; 
culmen 14. 

Type in the British Museum. ¢. Tam Dao, Tonkin, 
Jan. 12,1926. No. 1464. Registered No. 1927.6. 5.18. 

Material examined. Six specimens. 


Pterythius enobarbus laotianus, subsp. nov. 
Stands between P. @. annamensis and P. «. intermedius 
(Hume) from Burma, and differs from the latter in having 


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a smaller bill, less yellow on the forehead, and much less 
brown on the breast, although it has much more of it than 
P. ce. annamensis. 

Iris brown ; bill grey ; legs and feet horny Hesh-colour. 

Measurements: 6. Wing 61mm.; tail 43; tarsus 18; 
culmen 7. 

Type in the Paris Museum. 2. Xieng-Khowang, Laos, 
Jan. 7,'1926."' No. H.1616. 

Material examined. Four specimens. 

Nore.—These birds were obtained during our 1925-1926 
Expedition, and put down on our report as P. @. intermedius 


(Hume). 


Pterythius enobarbus indochinensis, subsp. nov. 


Very near the typical bird, but with darker chestnut- 
brown on the forehead and throat, extending a little farther 
on the upper breast. Front of the crown more yellow ; 
half-cirele in front of the eye blacker. 

Iris brown; bill bluish-grey, tip and culmen black; legs 
and feet flesh-colour. 

Measurements: g. Wing 61 mm.; tail 42; tarsus 18; | 
culmen 9. 

Type in the Paris Museum. <. Dyjiring, 8. Annam, 
March 12, 1927. No. 3757. 


Material exanuned. ‘Two specimens. 


Cissopica, gen. nov. 

Differs from Urocissa in having a much coarser and more 
powerful bill and legs, and a shorter tail, never exceeding 
the wings by more than 30 mm. General plumage grey, 
black and pale yellow, never blue. 

Young birds retain for a long time their distinct juvenile 
plumage, a very peculiar fact amongst the Corvide. 

Type: Urocissa whiteheads O.-Grant. 

Nore.—I chose the name of this new genus to show the 
affinity of these birds to the Cissa, which they exactly 
resemble in their actions and voice. ‘The only difference in 


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their habits is that they fly about the trees and bamboos, and 
across the narrow valleys in larger flocks, often of 20 or 25 
individuals. 

They also remind one of the true Magpies with their pied 
plumage, especially on the wing. 


Cissopica whiteheadi xanthomelana, subsp. nov. 

Rictal bristles mixed black and grey. Forehead and crown 
black, with narrow brownish edgings to the feathers, giving 
a very slightly scaly appearance. Mantle black, passing to 
yellowish on the rump, the feathers of which have yellowish- 
white tips. Upper tail-coverts dark grey, with broad pale 
yellow tips and whitish bases. Rectrices yellowish-grey at 
their base and on one-third of their inner web, then black, 
with pale yellow tips, increasing on outer feather so that the 
outermost are yellow on more than half of the length, 
Primaries black, with grey margins on the base and a small 
white terminal spot, the outer grey margin obsolete on some 
specimens; secondaries black, with yellowish-white margins 
extending to the end of the terminal one-third of the outer 
web ; greater wing-coverts black, with broad pale yellow 
tips; primary coverts black; lesser wing-coverts, under 
wing-coverts, and axillaries pale yellow. Chin, throat, and 
breast black, slightly suffused with yellow, passing to 
yellowish-grey on the flanks and lower breast, and to pale 
yellow on the abdomen and under tail-coverts. 

Female similar to male. 

This bird differs from C. w. whiteheadi in its larger size, 
coarser and larger feet and beak, and in tho colour of the 
rectrices, which are grey with a subterminal black patch 
in the Hainan bird. Also less grey on the outer webs of 
primaries. 

Iris pale greenish-yellow ; bare skin behind the eye 
brownish-green ; beak orange, with a greenish base to the 
maxilla ; legs and feet black, with some orange at the joints; 
nails brown. 

Measurements: 6. Wing 224mm. ; tail 243 ; tarsus 52; 
culmen 42. 


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Type in the British Museum. ¢. Backan, N.H. Tonkin, 
Dec. 25, 1926. No. 2150. Registered No. 1927.6. 5.19. 

Juvenile plumage. Head, nape, sides of neck, and back dark 
grey, with light yellowish-grey edgings to the feathers ; 
mantle darker grey ; rump light yellowish-grey; tail as 
in the adults, also the wings, with the exception of the 
primaries and six first secondaries which have grey outer 
webs, and the primary coverts are also grey. Chin, throat, 
and breast yellowish-grey, passing to pale yellow on the 
abdomen. 

Older birds have a darker and almost black mantle. 

Iris yellowish-brown; beak brownish-grey, with a small 
reddish-orange tip and greenish base, rather variable and 
sometimes entirely grey ; feet and legs black. 

Material examined. Twenty-two specimens. 

Notre.—Birds in juvenile plumage being generally more 
numerous in the flocks than fully adult ones, I believe that 
they remain a long time in immature dress. The adult birds 
had not bred for several months, and the sexual organs of 
the young birds were well developed. 


Dendrocitta formose intermedia, subsp. nov. 

Intermediate between D. f. himalayensis Sharpe from the 
Himalayas and N. Laos and D. f. sinica Stresemann from 
the lower parts of N.H. Tonkin, 8. China, but more like the 
latter, from which it differs in having a longer tail and 
the basal half about the central rectrices being grey on the 
outer web. 

Iris reddish-brown ; bill, legs, and feet black. 

Measurements: ¢. Wing 138 mm.; tail 175; tarsus 29 ; 
culmen 27. 

Type in the Paris Museum. 6. Tam-Dao, Central 
Tonkin, Nov. 30, 1926. No. 1410. 


Material examined. 8ix specimens. 


Dendrocitta frontalis kurodz, subsp. nov. 


Differs from D.f. frontalis in being altogether darker, the 
rufous and grey parts of the plumage much duller. 
Iris reddish-brown ; bill, legs, and feet black. 


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Vol. xlvii.] 166 


Measurements: g. Wing 138 mm. ; tail 224; tarsus 29; 
culmen 22. 

Type in the Paris Museum. 6. Backan, N.H. Tonkin, 
Dec. 28, 1926. No. 2212. 

Material examined. Hight specimens. 


Nore.—Named in honour of Dr. N. Kuroda, of Tokyo. 


Parus minor indochinensis, subsp. nov. 

Resembles P. m. commixtus Swinh. from 8. China, but 
much smaller. 

Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet bluish-grey. 

Measurements: 6. Wing 62 mm.; tail 56; tarsus 15 ; 
culmen 8. 

Type in the Paris Museum. 6. Backan, N.E. Tonkin, 
Jan. 3, 1927... No. 2349. 

Material examined. Eleven specimens. 

Nore.—Birds from Xieng-Khusang, Laos, reported as 
P. major thibetanus, can be referred to the present race, 


though slightly larger. 


Parus monticolus legendrei, subsp. nov. 

Differs from all other races in having a much duller and 
lighter yellow on the underpart, a broader black line on 
breast and abdomen, and a duller and greyer-green mantle. 

Iris dark brown; bill black ; legs and feet bluish-grey. 

Measurements: g. Wing 65 mm.; tail 16; tarsus 16; 
culmen 9. | | 

Typé in the Paris Museum. 2. Djiring, 8S. Annam, 
March 3, 1927. No. 3604. 

Material examined. Ten examples. 


Note.—Named in honour of M. Marcel Legendre. 


Psittiparus ruficeps magnirostris, subsp. nov. 

Near to P. r. bakeri Hartert from Burma, but differs in 
having a larger and thicker bill, darker brown upper parts, 
richer and more reddish-rufous head and neck. 

Tris reddish-brown ; bill, legs, and feet bluish-grey. 

Measurements: 3. Wing 90 mm.; tail 90; tarsus 21 ; 
culmen 14, 


167 [ Vol. xlvil. 


Type in the Paris Museum. ¢@. Tam-Dao, C. Tonkin, 
Dec. 1, 1926. No. 1426. | 


Material examined. Six specimens. 


Psittiparus margarite, sp. nov. 


Forehead, crown, and nape deep black. Lores, feathers 
round the eyes and sides of the neck mottled white and dark 
grey ; ear-coverts similar, but darker ; pileous feathers round 
the bill and chin black ; throat white, with a few black spots 
on the middle forming faint streaks. Underparts slightly 
yellowish-white. Upper parts light brown, with blackish 
inner webs to the primaries and a slightly greyer tail with 
faint whitish tips to the rectrices. 

Iris brown ; bill reddish-orange ; legs and feet green. 

Measurements: 8. Wing 87 mm.; tail 83; tarsus 26; 
culmen 14, 

Type in the Paris Museum. 6. Djiring, S. Annam, 
March 3, 1926. No. 3356. 

Material examined. Three specimens. 

Nore.-—Named in honour of my mother. The occurrence 
of a Crow-Tit at as low a latitude as 11° is a remarkable 
circumstanee. This distinct species is nearest to P. gularis. 


Suthora davidiana tonkinensis, subsp. nov. 


Resembles S. d. thompsoni (Bingham) from the Shan 
States, but differs in having pale grey shafts to the feathers 
of the lower throat, producing a squamated appearance ; 
also the colour of the throat is not sharply defined from that 
of the breast, but blends into the grey of the underparts, 
which is purer ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with chest- 
nut on inner webs and reddish on outer webs. 

Iris reddish-brown ; bill white ; legs and feet fleshy-grey. 

Measurements: . Wing 50 mm.; tail 39; tarsus 16; 
culmen 11. 

Type in the Paris Museum. 6. Backan, N.E. Tonkin, 
Bec. 12; Fa207 wu ere. 


Material examined. Only one specimen. 


Vol. xlvii.] 168 


Oriolus traillii robinsoni, subsp. nov. 


The adult male differs from O. t. traillii (Vig.) from India, 
Burma, N. Laos, and Tonkin in its slightly smaller size, 
shorter and thicker bill, and in its lighter and more crimson 
maroon colour. 

The adult female is quite different to that of O. t. traillii. 
The head, neck, wings, and thighs are black; the back 
blackish-brown suffused with crimson, passing to crimson 
on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; tail-feathers crimson- 
maroon with black shafts, the central ones with a broad 
blackish margin, the others with a dark border on the outer 
web only. Underparts crimson-maroon like those of the 
male, but the maroon is merely a broad fringe ; the whole of 
the hidden part of the feathers is grey instead of white, with 
the exception of a small white base, and produces a rather 
dark and slightly scaly aspect. 

The young male has the crown, hind part, and sides of the 
neck black; upper parts blackish-brown, passing to dark 
crimson-maroon on the rump and tail-coverts. Tail-feathers 
light pinkish-maroon with an outer brown margin, the 
central rectrices almost entirely pinkish-brown. The whole 
of the underparts streaked light pinkish-buff and dark brown, 
the abdomen with larger and whiter markings. 

The young female is similar, with coarser and whiter 
markings underneath. 

A nestling, just out of the nest, has the whole head and 
neck smoky-black ; the upper parts blackish, with chestnut- 
brown margins to the feathers broader on the rump and 
passing to pinkish-chestnut on the tail-coverts; tail light 
crimson and brown. Underparts streaked brown and pinkish- 
buff, with white marking on the abdomen. Iris grey. 

Iris yellow ; bill, legs, and feet bluish-grey. 

Measurements: 3. Wing 142 mm.; tail 102; tarsus 22; 


culmen 25. 
9. Wing 142 mm.; tail 102; tarsus 23 ; culmen 26. 


Types in the British Museum. f 2. Djiring,S. Annam, 
March 1 and 5, 1927. Nos. 3349 and 3522. Registered 
No. 1927. 6.5.20 & 21. 

Material examined. ‘Thirty-one specimens. 


169 [ Vol. xlvii. 


Nore.—In N.E. Tonkin we found together typical O. t. 
éraillit and a light crimson bird with a shorter and thicker 
bill; careful comparison has shown that the latter is identical 
with O. ardens Swinh. from Formosa and O. nigellicauda 
Swinh. from Hainan. We therefore consider that there is 
only one form of the Crimson Oriole, O. ardens, inhabiting 
Formosa, Hainan, and Tonkin. 

Dr. Stresemann’s Oriolus mellianus is quite a distinct bird, 
with a grey back. When more material than the single 
female is available, it will be possible to decide whether it is 
a subspecies of O. ardens or of O. traillii. 


Arborophila davidi, sp. nov. , 


A very distinct species, not nearly allied to any Indo- 
Chinese form. 

Forehead to the eyes dirty greyish, hinder crown barred 
with black and dull rufous ; occiput and nape black. From 
behind the eye a broad grey stripe becoming rust-red on 
sides of neck; a broad black stripe from the jaw-gape running 
round the throat over the ear-coverts; chin white, throat 
rust-red ; upper chest dull brown, washed with ferruginous ; 
upper breast grey, with large heart-shaped black spots on each 
feather, bordered basally with buffy-white; belly greyish- 
white ; under tail-coverts black with broad greyish-white 
tips and a narrow buffy subbasal bar. Flank-feathers 
greyish at the base, with very broad glossy black bars and 
tips and a much narrower subterminal white bar. 

Upper surface much as in A. brunneipectus. 

Iris brown; bill black, the base of the mandible and the 
skin of the face and throat red; feet and claws “ rose.”’ 

Wing 134 mm.; tail 49; tarsus 30; bill from gape 21. 

Type in the British Museum. Sex uncertain. Phurieng, 
38 miles east of Saigon, Cochin China, altitude 800 feet. 
Collected on 1st February, 1927, by Mons. André David, in 
whose honour the species is named. Reg. No. 1927.6. 5. 24. 

This handsome Tree-Partridge is not closely allied to any 
known form. It is perhaps nearest to A. rubrirostris (Salvad.) 
from Sumatra, but that species has the head black, the throat 


black and white, and with no ferruginous markings anywhere. 
c 


Vol. xlvii. ] 170 


Picus chlorolophus harmandi, subsp. nov. i“ 
Differs from P.c. burme Meinertzhagen (P. c. chlorolo- 
phoides Gyldenstolpe) in its pale lemon crest, devoid of any 
tinge of orange or chrome. Darker above than any of the 
other races, except P.c. rodgert (Hartert & Butler) from 
the mountains of the Malay Peninsula and P. c. vanheysti 
from Sumatra. 
Iris red ; bill plumbeous, bright yellow at base ; legs and 
feet greyish-green. 
Measurements: Wing 188 mm.; tail 100; bill from gape 29. 
BRITISH [ Type in Beste] Museum. @ adult. Collected at Phurieng, 
onus North Cochin China, on March 30th, 1927, by Messrs. J. 
/ Delacour and Jabouille. No. 4289. 
There is also an adult male from the Hargitt Collection in 
the British Museum, collected in Cochin China by Harmand. 
Registered No. 98. 3.10. 368. 


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INDEX. 


[ Names of new species and subspecies are indicated by clarendon type 
under the generic entry only. | ° 


abbotti, Phodilus badius, 121. 

abingdoni kavirondensis, Compothera, 
70. 

Accipiter albigularis, 139. 

hilgerti, 139. 

leucosomus, 139. 

nigroplumbeus, 139. 

ovampensis, 139. 

ventralis, 139. 

——- versicolor, 139. 

Acrocephalus palustris, 66. 

scirpaceus, 66. 

Actinodura ramsayi kinneari, 
subsp. n., 162. 

acuta, Dafila, 84. 

ZEchmorhynchus cancellatus, 70. 

egyptius angole, Pluvianus, 100. 

enobarbus annamensis, Pterythius, 
163. 

laotianus, Pterythius, 162. 

eruginosus, Circus, 61. 

Aestrelata neglecta, 139. 

ZEthopyga ezrai, sp. n., 21. 

affinis affinis, Trochalopterum, 112. 

Ailuredus, 80. 

alani, Zosterops palpebrosa, 145. 

Alauda arvensis lonntergi, 
subsp. n., 23. 

pekinensis, 23, 24. 

alba, Motacilla, 66. 

alba, Tyto, 138. 

gracilirostris, Tyto, 138. 

albicillus, Certhiparus, 41. 

albicollis,. Muscicapa, 66. 

cinerascens, Rhipidura, 156. 

albigularis, Accipiter, 189. 

leucogastra, Setaria, 54, 93. 

moultoni, Ophrydornis, 93. 

alboides, Motacilla, 67. 

Alcedo meninting phillipsi, 
subsp. n., 72. 


Alcippe nipalensis lactianus, 
subsp. n., 72. 

major, sulsp. n., 18. 

Alectoris rufa rufa, 141. 

Alethe choloens'is, subsp. n., 86. 

algiriensis, Ammomanes deserti, 34. 

alpestris subea, Hremophila, 141. 

altaicus, Gennaia, 91. 

orientalis, Tetraogallus, 36. 

altifrons, Charadrius, 64. 

aluco harmsi, Strix, 40. 

obscurata, Strix, 39. 

sancti-nicolaz, 40. 

Amaurornis fuscus zeyloni- 
cus, subsp. n., 73. 

ambiguus, Parus cinereus, 129. 

, Lurdus, 129. 

Ammomanes deserti algiriensis, 34. 

deserti, 34. 

isabellina, 34. 

analts, Picus, 42. 

Anarhynchus frontalis, 41. 

angole, Pluvianus egyptius, 100. 

angolensis angolensis, Hirundo, 126. 

annamensis, Drymocataphus tickelli, 
17. 

——., Dryonastes perspicillatus, 157. 

——, Leptocoma flammacxillaris, 68. 

, Sphenurus sphenurus, 9. 

ansorget, Mirafra sabota, 29, 30. 

Anthocichla phayrei obscura, 
subsp. n., 155. 

Anthreptes hypogrammica 
lisettz, subsp. n., 22. 

malacensis basilanicus, 
subsp. n., 68. 

—— —— sanghirana, subsp. n., 
68. 

Anthus rufulus lynesi, 25. 

apicauda laotianus, Sphenurus, 10. 

apricarius, Charadrius a., 64. 


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Aptenodytes patagonica, 141. 

Apteryx australis lawryi, 40. 
mantelli, 41. 

aquila, Fregata, 100. 

Arborophila brunneipectus neveut, 95. 
— neveni, subsp. n., 8, 95. 
—— davidi, sp. n., 169. 
rufogularis laotianus, 95. 

—— laotinus, subsp. n., 9, 95. 
Ardea melanolopha, 130. 

picta, 130. 

ardens, Oriolus, 169. 

artel, Fregata, 92, 100. 

arvensis lonnbergi, Alauda, 23. 
pekinensis, Alauda, 23, 24. 
assimilis, Phodilus badius, 122. 
Astur gentilis gentilis, 61, 113. 
Athene cuculoides brugeli, 94. 
noctua ludlowi, subsp. n., 


58. 
Athenoptera  spilocephalus 
stresemanni, subsp. n., 126. 
athertoni, Nyctiornis, 108. 
atlantis, Larus, 131. 
atra, Charmosyna, 141. 
atratus, Catarrhactes, 140. 
atricapillus, Butorides striatus, 143. 
Attagen minor, 100. 
Attila brasiliensis, 140. 
spadicea, 140. 
aucklandica, Coenocorypha, 40. 
aurantiacus, Casuarius unappendicu- 
latus, 27. 
auratus, Garrulax gularis, 15. 
aureiventer media, Zosterops, 93. 
parvus, Zosterops, 56, 93. 
auricularis, Cyanops franklini, 158. 
australis lawyri, Apteryx, 40. 
mantelli, Apteryx, 41. 


badius, Phodilus, 121. 

abbotti, Phodilus, 121. 

assimilis, Phodilus, 122. 

badius, Phodilus, 122. 
nipalensis, Phodilus, 121. 
saturatus, Phodilus, 121. 
bakeri, Turdinus macrodactylus, 54, 


bankiva, Gallus gallus, 83. 

barbatus, Picus, 41. 

— grandis, Gypaétus, 133. 

basilanicus, Anthreptes malacensis, 68. 

belcheri, Buccanodon, 85. 

benguellensis, Bradypterus brachy- 
pterus, 147. 

herlepschi, Eremophila, 141. 

berliozt, Xanthixus flavescens, 14. 

Bhringa remifer sumatrana, 
subsp. n., 57, 94. 

bicolor, Centropus, 149. 

blancheti, Faico peregrinus, 138. 


172 


Blythipicus pyrrhotis inter- 
medius, subsp. n., 154. 
bonasia griseiventris, Tetrastes, 141. 
volgensis, Tetrastes, 141. 
boninsime, Zosterops palpebrosa, 145. 
borbonicus, Didus, 144. 
borealis, Horornis canturians, 58, 
bornensis, Hupetes macrocercus, 75. 
bourdellei, Hemixus flavala, 13. 
brachydactyla, Calandrella, 33. 
mauritanica, Certhia, 25. 
—- raisulii, Certhia, 25. 
Brachylophus chlorophoides, 42. 
brachyphorus, Dissemurus paradiseus, 
75 ; 


, Edolius, 75. 

Brachyurus forsteni, 40. 

Bradypterus brachypterus 
benguellensis, subsp. n., 147. 

bradypterus benguellensis, Brady- 
pterus, 147. 

brandti okai, Garrulus, 150. 

brasiliensis, Attila, 140. 

sl Ne obscura, Corythocichla, 

1 

rufiventer, Corythocichla, 162. 

brevipennis, Calamodyta, 115. 

brevipes, Butorides, 143. 

brevirostris tonkinensis, Pericrocotus, 
156. 

brugeli, Athene cuculoides, 94. 

brunneiceps, Yungipicus hardwicki, 42. 

brunneipectus neveni, Arborophila,8,95. 

nev.n', Arborophila, 95. 

Bubo bubo turcomanus, 72. 

bubo turcomanus, Bubo, 72. 

Buccanodon belcheri, sp. n., 85. 

Bucia, 108. 

Butastur indicus, 108. 

butleri, Cinnyris osea, 119. 

Butorides brevipes, 143. 

striatus atricapillus, 143. 


cabanisi stephensoni, Dryobates, 42. 

stresemanni, Dryobates, 42. 

cacharensis, Zosterops palpebrosa, 89, 
0. 


Cacomantis infuscatus, 140. 
simus, 140. 
cerulescens,Hxcalfactoria chinensis, 69. 
Calamocichla, 118. 

nilotica, 119. 
Calamodyta brevipennis, 118. 
Calamoherpe newtont, 118. 
Calamornis, gen. n., 118. 
— foxi, sp. n., 118. 
Calandrella brachydactyla, 33. 
hermoniensis, 33. 
Calendula dunni, 28. 

Callene macclouniet, 86. 
camarunensis, Podica, 1389. 


camburni, Tchitrea, 139. 

Campothera abingdoni kavi- 
rondensis, subsp. n., 70. 

cancellatus, Aichmorhynchus, 70. 

candicans, Hierofaico, 91. 

canifrons laotianus, Spizixus, 14, 

canorus, Cuculus, 45. 

canturians borealis, Horornis, 538. 

taivanorum, Horornis, 53. 

canus sanguiniceps, Picus, 41. 

Capella gallinago gallinago, 141. 

sabiner, 141. 

Caprimulgus grandis, 108, 

caragane, Perdix hodgsonie, 72. 

carolinensis interior, Conuropsis, 130. 

Carpodacus erythrinus mu- 
rati, subsp. n., 20. 

Casuarius mitratus, 26, 27. 

philipi, 26, 27. 

— unappendiculatus, 26, 27. 

aurantiacus, 27. 

—— — laglaizei, 26, 27. 

occipitalis, 26, 27. 

rothschildi, 26, 27. 

rufotinetus, 26, 27. 

—— —— suffusus, 27. 

unappendiculatus, 26, 27. 

Catarrhactes atratus, 140. 

pachyrhynchus, 140. 

schlegelt, 140, 

celebensis, Pyrrhocentor, 149. 

centralis, Tetraogallus tibetanus, 37. 

Centropus bicolor, 149. 

Cerchneis tinnunculus subsp., 103. 

dorriesi, 108. 

interstinctus, 1038. 

—— —— japonicus, 1038. 

—— —— objurgatus, subsp. n., 
106. 


——— 


_—. 


— 


saturatus, 103. 

tinnunculus, 103. 

Cerithia brachydactyla mauritanica, 
25. 


raisulii, subsp. n., 25. 

Certhiparus albicillus, 41. 

ceylonensis orientalis, Ketupa, 11. 

pallidior, Culicicapa, 108. 

Charadrius a. altifrons, 64. 

a. apricarius, 64. 

pecuarius, 85. 

charltont tonkinensis, Tropiceperdi , 
152. 

Charmosyna atra, 141. 

stelle goliathina, 141. 

chauleti, Cissa hypoleuca, 19. 


chinensis cerulescens, Hxcalfactoria, 69. 
> ’ 


Chlamydera maculata, 81. 
chlorolophoides, Brachylophus, 42. 
chlorolophus chlorophoides, Picus, 42. 
harmandi, Picus, 170. 
laotianus, Picus, 12. 


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Chloropetella holochrous holochrous, 
32. 

— — suahelica, 32. 

suahelica, 31. 

Chlorophoneus multicolor, 140. 

nigrithorax, 140, 

choloensis, Alethe, 86. 

Chrysolophus pictus, 140, 142, 

obscurus, 140. 

var. obscurus, 50. 

cincta, Notiomystis, 41. 

cinerascens, Rhipidura albicollis, 156. 

cinereiceps, Polihierax insignis, 101. 

cinereocapilla, Cryptolopha, 109. 

cinereus ambiguus, Parus, 129. 

malayorum, Parus, 129. 

Cinnyris osea butleri, 119. 

—— oseus decorset, 119. 

Circus eruginosus, 61. 

cirrhatus confusus, Pieumnus, 112. 

cirrhocephalus, Larus, 126. 

Cissa hypoleuca cnamlees 
subsp. n., 19. 

Cissopica, gen. n., 163. 

—— whiteheadi xantho- 
melana, subsp. n., 164. 

Clamator jacobinus hypopinarius, 139. 

serrator, 139. 

clamosus, Cueulus, 139. 

Cenocorypha aucklandica, 40, 

colchicus, Phasianus, 140, 141. 

— edzinensis, Phasianus, 35. 

takatsukase, Phasianus, 151. 

tenebrosus, Phasianus, 142. 

— mut. tenebrosus, Phasianus, 51, 
140. 

torquatus, Phasianus, 140. 

versicolor, Phasianus, 141. 

collurioides griseicapilius, Lanius, 13. 

melanocephalus, Lanius, 13, 70. 

nigricapillus, Lanius, 70. 

confusus, Picumnus cirrhatus, 112. 

Conuropsis carolinensis interior, 180, 

corax tingitanus, Corvus, 138. 

Corvus corax tingitanus, 138. 

Coryllis vernalis rubropygi- 
alis, subsp. n., 44. 

Corythocichla brevicaudata 
obscura, subsp. n., 161. 

——7——_ Funventer,, subsp. ny, 
162. 

Coturnix coturnix, 141. 

lodoisia, 141. 

cristatus, Pavo, 140. 

mut. vgripennis, Pavo, 51, 140, 

cruentatum hainanum, Diceum, 69. 

kuseri, Ithaginis, 111. 

cruentatus, Melanerpes, 140. 

Cryptolopha cinereocapilla, 109. 

cucullatus, Didus, 148. 

cuculoides, Noetua, 59. 


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cuculoides brugeli, Athene, 94. 

cuculoides, Glaucidium, 59. 

—— fuivescens, Glaucidium, 60, 
94. 


rufescens, Glaucidium, 59. 

whitelyi, Glaucidium, 95. 

Cuculus canorus, 45. 

clamosus, 189. 

solitarius, 139. 

Culicicapa ceylonensis palli- 
dior, subsp. n., 108. 

cupido pallidicinctus, Tympanuchus, 
141. 

cyanea tristis, Cyanopica, 74. 

willoughby, Pitta, 12. 

Cyanopica cyanea tristis, 
subsp. n., 74. 

Cyanops fr anklini auricularis, 153. 

tonkinensis, subsp. n., 


153. 

Cyrtostomus frenatus hachi- 
suka, subsp. n., 67. 

— olivaceus, subsp. n., 68. 


Dafila acuta, 84. 

danjoui, Jabouilleia, 160. 
parvirostris, Jabouilleia, 160. 
davidi, Arborophila, 169. 

davidiana tonkinensis, Suthora, 167. 
decorsei, Cinnyris oseus, 119. 
defontanesii, Saxicola torquata, 133. , 
Dendrobiastes hyperythrus innexa, 75. 
malayana, 93 


subsp. n., 
52, 93. 


, subsp. n., 
52, 75. 

Dendrocitta formose inter- 
media, subsp. n., 165. 

—— frontalis kurodz, subsp. n., 
165. 

deserti algiriensis, Ammomanes, 34. 

deserti, Ammomanes, 34. 

isabellina, Ammomanes, 34. 

Diceum cruentatum haina- 
num, subsp. n., 69. 

——hematostictum white- 
headi, subsp. n., 55. 

pygmzum palawanorum, 
subsp. n., 55. 

Dicrurus leucogenys meridi- 
onalis, subsp. n., 56. 

Didus borbonicus, 144. 

cucullatus, 148. 

solitarius, 144. 

diphone twootoensis, Horornis, elo 

Dissemurus formosus, 94. 

paradiseus brachyphorus, 75. 

insularis, subsp. n., 58, 


174 


Dissemurus paradiseus wal- 
lacei, subsp. n., 58. 75, 94. 

divaricatus, Lanius, 129. 

, Pericrocotus, 129. 

dorriest, Cerchneis tinnunculus, 180. 

douglast douglast, Pitta, 156. 

tonkinensis, Pitta, 155. 

Drymocataphus pusillus, sp. 
n., 161. 

-—— tickelli annamensis, subsp. 
nara, 

Dryobates cabanisi stephensoni, 42. 

—— stresemanni, 42. 

pectoralis, 42. 

Dryonastes grahami, 22. 

maesi, 22, 83. 

—— perspicillatus annamen- 
sis, subsp. n., 157. 

varennei, sp. n., 15. 

dumetoria, Saxicola, 120. 

dunni, Calendula, 28. 

, Hremalauda, 28. 


Edolius brachyphorus, 75. 

edzinensis, Phasianus colchicus, 35. 

egregia, Zosterops palpebrosa, 90. 

elegans sibirica, Hmberiza, 35. 

—— ticehursti, Emberiza, 30. 

elliott2, Pitta, 8. 

Elininia schwebischa, 119. 

elwesi, Zosterops palpebrosa, 88. 

Emberiza elegans sibirica, 35. 

ticehursti, nom. n., 35. 

Ephialtes spilocephalus huttoni, 127. 

epilepidotus laotianus, Turdinulus, 17. 

Erannornis longicauda teresita, 120. 

Eremalauda, gen. n., 28. 

dunni, 28. 

Eremophila alpestris rubea, 141. 

berlepschi, 141. 

Ereunetes pusilius, 65. 

Eriocnemis soderstromi, sp. n., 
62. 

eriphyle, Thalurania x T. glaucopis, 
134. 

Erithacus rubecula lavau- 
deni, subsp. n., 24. 

Erolia minutilla, 65. 

erythrinus murati, Carpodacus, 20. 

Erythrocercus holochlorus, 31. 

Erythromyias, 120. 

Estrilda xanthophrys, sp. n., 32. 

xanthophrys, 120. 

Ethelornis magnirostris co- 
bana, nom. n., 40. 

Eupetes macrocercus bornensis, 75. 

subrufus, subsp. n., 54, 


75, 94. 

Eixcalfactoria chinensis ceru- 
lescens, subsp. n., 69. 

ezrai, Abthopyga, 21. 


175 


Jaiostrictus pallidus, Thereiceryx, 154. 

Faleo indicus, 107. 

peregrinus blancheti, 133. 

rufipedordes, 108. 

saturatus, 106. 

severus rufipedoides, 107. 

tinnunculus, 105. 

japonicus, 105. 

Serruginosus orientalis, Pomatorhinus, 
158. 

flabellifera, Rhipidura, 139. 

flammaxillaris annamensis, Leptocoma, 


flavala bourdellei, Hemixus, 13. 

jlavescens berliozi, Xanthixus, 14. 

JSormose intermedia, Dendroeiita, 165, 

Jormosus, Dissemurus, 94. 

foxt, Calamornis, 118. 

Francolinus pintadeanus 
wellsi, subsp. n., 9. 

Franklin auricularis, Cyanops, 153. 

tonkinensis, Cyanops, 153. 

Fregata aquila, 100. 

ariel, 92, 100. 

Srenatus hachisuka, Cyrtostomus, 67. 

olevaceus, Cyrtostomus, 68. 

Sriesi, Pomatorhinus tickelli, 160. 

Srontalis, Anarhynchus, 41. 

kurodai, Dendrocitta, 165. 

Sulicarius, Phalaropus, 65. 

Juliginosa, Rhipidura, 139. 

fulvescens, Glaucidium cuculoides, 60, 


fuscatus, Lanius, 138, 142. 
Suscus zeylonicus, Amaurornis, 73. 


galeata, Numida, 139, 142. 

Galerida maculata, 34. 

nigricans, 34. 

gallinago gallinago, Capella, 141. 

Gallus gallus, 82. 

— bankiva, 83. 

— — gallus, 838. 

— — murghi, 83. 

robinsont, 82. 

gallus, Phasianus, 82. 

gambensis, Plectropterus, 143. 

Gampsorhynchus rufulus 
lucie, subsp. n., 16. 


Garrulax gularis auratus, 
subsp. n., 15. 

moniliger tonkinensis, 
subsp. n., 158. 


pectoralis robini, subsp. n., 
157. 

Garrulus brandti okai, 150. 

glandarius pallidifrons, 

subsp. n., 149. 

taczanowskii, 150. 

Gecinulus grantia indochin- 
ensis, subsp. n., 154. 


——— 


[Vol. xlvii. 


Gecinus weberi, 95. 

Gennaia altaicus, 91. 

hendersoni, 91. 

lorenzi, 91. 

—— milvipes, 91. 

—- sacer, 91. 

——— saceroides, 91. 

gentilis gentilis, Astur, 61, 113. 

gladiator, Malaconotus, 140. 

glandarius pallidifrons, Garrulus, 
149, 

taczanowskit, aie 150. 

Glaucidium cuculoides cuculoides, 59. 

fulvescens, subsp. n., 


60. 
—— —— rufescens, subsp. n., 59, 
94. 


whitelyt, 95. 
glaucopis, Thalurania X T. eriphyle, 
134 


goisagi melanolophus, Gorsachius, 130. 

goliathina, Charmosyna stelle, 141. 

Gorsachius goisagi melanolophus, 130. 

gracilirostris, Tyto alba, 133. 

grahami, Dryonastes, 22. 

grandis, Caprimulgus, 108. 

grantia indochinensis, Gecinulus, 154. 

griseicapillus, Lanius collurioides, 13. 

grisewentris, Tetrastes bonasia, 141. 

gularis auratus, Garrulax, 15. 

laotianus, Psittiparus, 19. 

Gypaétus barbatus grandis, 133. 

Gyps indicus jonesi, subsp. n., 
74. 

—— —— nudiceps, subsp. n., 151, 

tenuirostris, 1d1. 

tenuiceps, 151. 

gyrfaico, Hierofaico, 91. 


hachisuka, Cyrtostomus frenatus, 67. 

Hematopus meadewaldoi, 139, 140. 

—— mocquini, 140. 

niger, 140. 

ostraleyus, 140. 

ostralegus, 139. 

hematostictum whiteheadi, 
55. 

hainanum, Diceum cruentatum, 69. 

hainanus indochinensis, Pycnonotus, 
156. 

Halcyon smyrnensis smyrnensis, 87. 

zugmay ri, 87. 

brunneiceps, 


Diceum, 


hardwicki 
42. 
harmandi, Picus chlorolophus, 170. 
harmsi, Strix aluco, 40. 
harterti, Zosterops palpebrosa, 56. 
hasselti, Muscicapula, 145. 
Heliocorys modesta saturatior, 30. 
striimpelli, 30. 
Hemiellesia, 118. 


Yungipicus, 


Vol. xlvii. | 


Hemixus flavala bcurdellei, 
subsp. n., 15. 

hendersoni, Gennara, 91. 

hermoniensis, Calandrella, 38. 

Heteroscops lucie, 127. 

Hierofalco candicans, 91. 

gyt falco, 91. 

éslandus, 91. 

labradorus, 91. 

hilgerti, Accipiter, 139. 

Himantopus leucocephalus, 139. 

nove zealandie, 139. 

Hirundo angolensis angolensis, 126. 

hispanica, Hnanthe, 50. 

hodgsoni, Motacilla, 67. 

hodgsonie caragane, Perdix, 72. 

: occidentalis, Perdix, 38. 

sifanica, Perdix, 38. 

holochlorus, Erythrocercus, 31. 

holochrous holochrous, Chloropetella, 
32. 


suahelica, Chloropetella, 32. 
Horornis canturians borealis, 53. 
taivanorum, subsp. n., 


53. 


diphone iwootoensis, 146. 

huttoni, Ephialtes spilocephalus, 127. 

Hypacanthis monguilloti, 
sp. n., 20. 

hyperythra innexa, Dendrobiastes, 75. 

hyperythrus malayana, Dendrobiastes, 
93. 


—- swmatranus, Dendrobiastes, 52, 


taivanicus, Dendrobiastes, 52, 75. 
hypogrammica lisette, Anthreptes, 22. 
hypoleuca, Muscicapa, 66. 

chauleti, Cissa, 19. 
hypopinarius, Clamator jgacobinus, 139, 


ichthyaétus plumbeiceps, Ichthyophaga, 
150. 

Ichthyophaga ichthyaétus 
plumbeiceps, subsp. n., 150. 

ignea, Tchitrea, 139. 

impejanus, Lophophorus, 141. 

indicus, Butastur, 108. 

, Falco, 107. 

——— jonesi, Gyps, 74. 

nudiceps, Gyps, 151. 

—-— tenuirostris, Gyps, 151. 

indochinensis, Gecinulus grantia, 154. 

, Parus minor, 166. 

——, Pterythius enobarbus, 168. 

—, Pycnonotus hainanus, 156. 

, Trochalopterum milnet, 158. 

infuscatus, Cacomantis, 140. 

innexd, Dendrobiastes hyperythrus, 75. 

, Siphia, 75. 

insignis cinereiceps, Polihierax, 101, 


176 


tnsularis, Dissemurus paradiseus, 58, 
75, 94. 

interior, Conuropsis carolinensis, 130. 

intermedia, Dendrocitta formose, 165. 

, Lynx torquilla, 73. 

intermedius, Blythipicus pyrrhotis,154. 

interstinctus, Cerchneis tinnunculus, 
103. 

, Falco, 106. 

isabellina, Ammomanes deserti, 34. 

islandus, Hierofailco, 91. 

isclata, Ninox scutulata, 60. 

itale paynt, Passer, 76. 

Ithaginis cruentatus kuseri, 111. 

iwootoensis, Horornis diphone, 146. 

Iynx torquilla intermedia, 
subsp. n., 7d. 


Jabouilleia, gen. n., 160. 

— danjout, 160. 

a parvirostris, subsp. n., 
160. 

jacobinus hypopinarius, Clamator, 139. 

japonicus, Cerchneis tinnunculus, 108. 

—-—, Falco tinnunculus, 105. 

jonest, Gyps indicus, 74. 


kavirondensis, Campothera abingdoni, 
70. 

Ketupa ceylonensis orientalis, 
subsp. n., Ll. 

kinneart, Actinodura ramsayt, 162. 

klossi, Suya superciliaris, 53, 

kurode, Dendrocitta frontalis, 165. 

kuseri, Ithaginis cruentatus, 111. 


labradorus, Hierofalco, 91. 


laglaizei, Casuarius unappendicu- 
latus, 26, 27. 

lagrandiert rothschildi, Megalema, 
153. 


langbianis, Muscicapula melanoleuca, 
145. 

Lanius colluricides griseica- 
pillus, subsp. n., 13. 

melanocephalus, 

subsp. n., 13, 70. 

nigricapillus, nom. n., 


70. 


divaricatus, 139. 

—— fuscatus, 138, 142. 
melanocephalus, 70. 

——- schach schach, 188. 
laotianus, Alcippe nipalensis, 19. 
, Arborophila rufogularis, 95. 
——., Picus chlorolophus, 12. 
—., Pomatorhinus tickelli, 16. 
—., Psittiparus gularis, 19. 
—-, Pterythius enobarbus, 162. 
——, Sphenurus apicauda, 10. 
——., Spizixus canifrons, 14. 


Rea 


laotianus, Strix newarensis, 11. 

, Turdinulus epilepidotus, 17. 

laotinus, Arborophila rufogularis, 8, 
95. 

Larus atlantis, 131. 

cirrhocephalus, 126. 

lavaudeni, Erithacus rubecula, 24. 

lawryi, Apteryx australis, 40. 

_ legendrei, Parus monticolus, 166. 

leoninus, Zosterops senegalensis, 86. 

Leptocoma flammaxillaris 
annamensis, subsp. n., 68. 

Lerwa lerwa major, subsp. n., 
LO: 

leucocephalus, Himantopus, 139, 

leucogastra, Setaria albigularis, 54, 93. 

leucogenys meridionalis, Dicrurus, 56. 

leucopsis, Motacilla, 67. 

leucosomus, Accipiter, 139. 

lisette, Anthreptes hypogrammica, 22. 

lobatus, Phalaropus, 65. 

lodoisie, Coturnix, 141. 

longicauda teresita, Hrannornis, 120. 

longicaudus, Stercorartus, 139. 

linnbergi, Alauda arvensis, 23. 

Lophophorus impejanus, 141. 

mantoui, 142. 

lorenzi, Gennaia, 91. 

lucie, Gampsorhynchus rufulus, 16. 

, Heteroscops, 127. 

——.,, Otus spilocephalus, 126. 

, Pisorhina, 126. 

ludlowt, Athene noctua, 58. 

lugens, Motacilla, 67. 

, Tetrao urogallus, 51. 

lugubris, Motacilla, 66, 67. 

lutescens, Mixornis rubricapilla, 18. 

lynest, Anthus rufulus, 25, 

, Myrmecocichla, 147. 


macclouniet, Callene, 86. 

macconnelli, Picumnus, 112. 
macrocercus bornensis, Hupetes, 75. 
subrufus, Eupetes, 54, 75, 94. 
macrodactylus bakeri, Turdinus, 54, 


maculata, Chlamydera, 81. 

, Galerida, 34. 

maderaspatensis, Motacilla, 67. 

maesi, Dryonastes, 22, 83. 

magnifica, Megalaima virens, 43. 

magnirostris, Psittiparus ruficeps, 166. 

major, Aleippe nipalensis, 18. 

, Lerwa lerwa, 101. 

thibetanus, Parus, 166. 

milacensis basilanicus, Anthreptes, 68. 

sanghirana, Anthreptes, 68. 

Malaconotus gladiator, 140. 

perspicillatus, 140. 

malayana, Dendrobiastes hyperythrus, 
93. 


(Vol. xlvi. 


malayorum, Parus cinereus, 129. 
mantelli, Apteryx australis, 41. 
mantout, Lophophorus, 142. 
margarita, Psittiparus, 167. 

masaujt, Micralcyone pusilla, 90. 
mauretanicus, Puffinus puffinus, 131. 
mauritanica, Certhia brachydactyla, 


meadewaldoi, Hematopus, 139, 140. 

media, Zosterops aureiventer, 93. 

Megalzema lagrandieri roth- 
schildi, subsp. n., 153. 

Megalaima virens magnifica, 
subsp, n., 43. 

Melanerpes cruentatus, 140. 

rubrifrons, 140. 

melanocephalus, Lanius, 70. 

: collurioides, 13, 70. 

melanoleuca, Muscicapula, 144. 

langbianis, Muscicapula, 145. 

melanolopha, Ardea, 130. 

melanolophus, Gorsachius goisagt, 130. 

Melanopitta bonapartena,, 
nom. noyv., 40. 

meleagris, Numida, 91. 

melinus, Sericulus, 80. 

mellianus, Oriolus, 169. 

meninting phillipsi, Alcedo, 72. 

meridianus, Picus viridanus, 95. 

meridionalis, Dicrurus leucogenys, 
56. 

——-, Pycnonotus sinensis, 151. 

merlint vivida, Tropicoperdiz, 9. 

Micralcyone pusilla masauji, 
subsp. n., 90. 

milnet indochinensis, Trochalopterum, 
158. 

milvipes, Gennaia, 91. 

minor, Attagen, 100. 

indochinensis, Parus, 166. 

minutilla, Erolia, 65. 

Mirafra nigrescens, 31. 

sabota ansorgei, subsp. n., 

29, 30. 


nevia, 30. 

— —— plebeja, 30. 

sabota, 30. 

—— —— waibeli, 30. 

— striimpelli, 30. 

mitratus, Casuarius unappendiculatus,. 
26, 27. 

Mixornis rubricapilla lutes- 
cens, subsp. n., 18. 

mocquini, Hematopus, 140. 

modesta saturatior, Helicorys, 30. 

striimpelli, Heliocorys, 30. 

modestus, Sphenurus siemundi, 10, 

monguilloti, Hypacanthis, 20. 

moniliger tonkinensis, Garrulax, 158. 

montanus, Perdix perdix, 141. 

, Rhopodytes, 44. 


Vol. xlvii. | i 


Monticola rufiventris sinen- 
sis, subsp. n., 148. 

monticolus, Rhopodytes, 44. 

legendrei, Parus, 166. 

Motacilla alba, 66. 

—— alboides, 67. 

hodgsoni, 67. 

lugens, 67. 

lugubris, 66, 67. 

leucopsis, 67. 

maderaspatensis, 67. 

vidua, 67. 

yarrelli, 67. 

moultont, Ophrydornis albogularis, 93. 

multicolor, Chlurophoneus, 140. 

murati, Carpodacus erythrinus, 20. 

murghi, Gallus gallus, 83. 

muriele, Sphenurus sieboldi, 152. 

Muscicapa albicollis, 66. 

hypoleuca, 66. 

Muscicapula hasselti, 145, 

melanoleuca, 144. 

langbianis, subsp. n., 


145. 
—— —— westermanni, 144. 
Myrmecocichla lynesi, sp. n., 
147. 


nevia, Mirafra sabota, 30. 

neglecta, Aestrelata, 139. 

neveni, Arborophila brunneipectus, 8, 
95. 

neveut, Arborophila brunnetpectus, 95. 

newarensis laotianus, Strix, 11. 

newtoni, Calamoherpe, 118. 

nicobariensis, Zosterops palpebrosa, 90. 

nigellicauda, Oriolus, 169. 

miger, Hematopus, 140. 

, Plectropterus, 145. 

nigrescens, Mirafra, 31. 

nigricans, Galerida, 34. 

nigricapillus, Lanius colluroides, 70. 

nigripennis, Pavo, 50, 64. 

5 cristatus, 51, 140. 
nigristriatus, Rhopodytes tristis, 44. 
nigrithorax, Chlorophoneus, 140. 
nigroplumbeus, Accipiter, 139. 
nilgiriensis, Zosterops palpebrosa, 89. 
nilotica, Calamocichla, 119. 

Ninox scutulata  isolata, 
subsp. n., 60. 

nipalensis, Phodilus badius, 121. 

, Pitta nipalensis, 156. 

laotianus, Alcippe, 19. 

major, Alcippe, 18. 

soror, Pitta, 156. 

Noctua cuculoides, 59. 

noctua ludlowi, Athene, 58. 

Notiomystis cincta, 41. 

novecedlandie, Himantopus, 139. 


8 


nudiceps, Gyps indicus, 151. 
Numida galeata, 139, 142. 
meleagris, 91. 
Nyctiornis, 108. 

athertoni, 108. 
Nyctornis, 108. 


oatesi, Pitta, 156. 
objurgatus, Cerchneis tinnunculus, 
LU6 


obscura, Anthocichla phayrei, 155. 

, Corythocichla brevicaudata, 161. 

, Thaumalea, 51, 140. 

obscurata, Strix aluco, 39. 

obscurus, Chrysolophus pictus, 50. 

occidentalis, Perdix hodgsonie, 38. 

occidentis, Zosterops palpebrosa, 88. 

occipitalis,  Casuarius  wnappendi- 
culatus, 26, 27. 

ochracea querulivox, Sasia, 43. 

(Hnanthe hispanica, 50. 

okat, Garrulus brandti, 150. 

olivaceus, Cyrtostomus frenatus, 68. 

Ophrydornis albogularis moultoni, 
93. 

Oreicola buruensis, 120. 

dumetoria, 120. 

—— muelleri, 120. 

pyrrhonota, 120. 

orientalis, Ketupa ceylonensis, 11. 

, Pomatorhinus ferruginosus, 159. 

—-, Tetraogallus altaicus, 36. 

Oriolus ardens, 169. 

mellianus, 169. 

nigellicauda, 169. 

Wri cieae robinsoni, subsp. n., 
168. 

osea butleri, Cinnyris, 119. 

oseus decorset, Cinnyris, 119. 

ostralegus, Hematopus, 139, 140. 

, —— ostralegus, 139. 

Otus spilocephalus, 121. 

lucie, 126. 

ovampensis, Accipiter, 139. 

Oxypogon stiibelit, 64. 


pachyrhynchus, Catarrhactes, 140. 
palawanorum, Diceum pygmeum, 55. 
pallidicinctus, Tympanuchus cupido, 


pallidifrons,Garrulus glandarius,149. 

pallidior, Culicicapa ceylonensis, 108. 

pallidus, Thereiceryx faiostrictus, 
154. 

palpebrosa alan, Zosterops, 145. 

—— boninsime, Zosterops, 146. 

— cacharensis, Zosterops, 89, 90. 

egregia, Zosterops, 90. 

——. e/wesi, Zosterops, 88. 


palpebrosa harterti, Zosterops, 56. 
nicobariensis, Zosterops, 90. 
nilgiriensis, Zosterops, 89. 
occidentis, Zosterops, 88. 
palpebrosa, Zosterops, 88. 
steynegert, Zosterops, 145. 
palusiris, Acrocephalus, 66. 


paradiseus brachyphorus, Dissemurus, 


75. 
58, 75, 


insularis, Dissemurus, 


parasiticus, Stercorarius, 13. 

Parus cinereus ambiguus, 129. 

malayorum, 129. 

—— major thibetanus, 166. 

minor indochinensis, 

subsp. n., 166. 

monticolus legendrei, 
subsp. n., 166. 

parvirostris, Jabouilleia danjoui, 160, 

e rvus, Zosterops aureiventer, 56, a 
pee italze payni, subsp. 


i a Aptenodytes, 141. 

Pavo cristatus, 140. 

nigripennis, D1, 140, 

nigripennis, OU, 64. 

payni, Passer itale, 76. 

pectoralis, Dryobates, 42. 

Picus, 42. 

robini, Garrulaxr, 157. 

pecuarius, Charadrius, 89. 

pekinensis, Alauda arvensis, 23, 24. 

Perdix barbata przewalskii, 
subsp. n., 38. 

— hodgsonie caragane, 72. 

ea subsp. n., 


38. 


sifanica, 38. 

perdix, 141. 

montanus, 141. 

peregrinus bluncheti, Falco, 133. 

Pericrocotus brevirostris ton- 
kinensis, subsp. n., 156. 

—— divaricatus, 129. 

perspicillatus, Malaconotus, 140. 

annamensis, Dryonastes, 157. 

Phalaropus fulicarius, 65. 

lohatus, 69. 

Phasianus colchicus, 140, 141. 

-—— edzinensis, subsp. n., 


e 


oD. 


—— takatsukase, subsp. n., 
Ydl. 

—— tenebrosus, 
51, 140, 142. 

torquatus, 140. 
versicolor, 141. 


— gullus, 82. 


mut. n., 


fio 


‘wallace, Dissemurus, 58, 75, 94. 


[ Vol. xlvi. 


phayrei obscura, Anthocichla, 155. 
phitipi, Casuarius, 26, 27. 
phillipsi, Alcedo meninting, 72. 
Phodilus badius, 121. 
abbotti, 121. 
a assimitis, 122. 
badius, 122 
— —— nipalensis, 121, 
saturatus, 


121. 
picta, Ardea, 180. 
pictus, Chrysolophus, 140, 142. 
obscurus, Chrysolophus, 140. 
var. obscurus, Chrysolophus, 


nom. n,, 


50. 

Picumnus cirrhatus confusus, 
subsp. n., 112. 

macconnelli, 112. 

Picus analis, 42. 

barbatus, 41. 

canus sanguiniceps, 41. 

—— chlorolophus chlorolophoides, 
42. 


—— —— harmandi, subsp. n.,170. 
laotianus, subsp. n., 12. 
pectoralis, 42. 
viridanus meridianus, 95. 
(Gecinws) weber, 95. 
pintadeanus wellse, Francolinus, 9. 
Pisorhina lucie, 126. ; 
Pitta cyanea willoughbyi, 
subsp. n., 12. 
douglasi douglast, 156. 
tonkinensis, subsp. n., 


155. 

elliotti, 8. 

—— nipalensis nipalensis, 156. 

soror, 156. 

oatesi, 156. 

schneidert, 156. 

plebeja, Mirafra sabota, 30. 

Plectropterus gambensis, 148. 

ruppelli, 143. 

—— niger, 143. 

sctoanus, 148. 

plumbiceps, Ichthyophaga ichthyaétus,. 
150. 

Pluvianus egyptius angole, 
subsp n., LOO. 

Podica camarunensis, 189. 

senegalensis, 139. 

Polihierax insignis 
ceps, subsp. n.. 101. 

pomarius, Stercorarius, 131. 


cinerei- 


Pomatorhinus  ferruginosus 
orientalis, subsp. n., 169. 
—— ruficollis saturatus, 


subsp. n., 159. 
tickelli friesi, 
160. 


subsp. n., 


Vol. xlvii. | 


Pomatorhinus tickelli laoti- 
anus, subsp. n., 16. 

—— —— tonkinensis, subsp. n., 
159. 

Procellaria agilis, 40. 

przewalskii, Perdia barbata, 38. 

, Tetraogallus tibetanus, 37. 


Psittiparus gularis laotianus, 


subsp. n., 19 
margarite, sp. n., 167. 
ruficeps magnirostris, 


subsp. n., 166. 

Pterodroma siliga, nom. n., 40. 

Pterythius znobarbus indo- 
chinensis, subsp. n., 163. 

—— —— intermedius, 163. 

laotianus, subsp. n., 162. 

Ptilonorhynchus, 80. 

Puffinus puffinus mauretanicus, 131. 

yelkouan, 131. 

pusilla masauji, Micralcyone, 90. 

pusillus, Drymocataphus, 161. 

, Ereunetes, 65. 

Pycnonotus hainanus_ indo- 
chinensis, subsp. n., 156. 

sinensis meridionalis, 
subsp. n., 157. 

pygmeum palawanorum, Diceum, 
55 


Pyrotrogon wardi, sp. n., 112. 

Pyrrhocentor celebensis, 149. 

pyrrhonota, Saxicola, 120. 

pyrrhotis intermedius, Blythipicus, 
154. 


querulivox, Sasia ochracea, 43. 


raisulii, Certhia brachydactyla, 25. 

ramsayi kinneart, Actinodura, 162. 

remifer sumatrana, Bhringa, 57, 94. 

Rhipidura albicollis ciner- 
ascens, subsp. n., 156. 

flabellifera, 139. 

—— —— kempi, 40. 

—— —— melande, nom. n., 40. 

Ffuliginosa, 139. 

Rhodoplila ferrea, 121. 

gutturalis, 121. 

jerdoni, 121. 

melanoleuca, 121. 

Rhopodytes monticolus, 44. 

tristis nigristriatus, 
subsp. n., 44. 

robini, Garrulax pectoralis, 157. 

robinsoni, Gallus gallus, 82. 

, Oriolus traillii, 168. 

rothschildi, Casuarius unappendicu- 
latus, 26, 27. 

, Megalema lagrandieri, 153. 

rubea, Kremophila alpestris, 141. 

rubecula lavaudent, Hrithacus, 24. 


180 


rubricapilla lutescens, Mixornis, 18. 

rubrifrons, Melanerpes, 140. 

rubropygialis, Coryllis vernalis, 44. 

rufa rufa, Alectoris, 141. 

rufescens, Glaucidiwm cuculoides, 59. 

rujficeps magnirostris, Psittiparus, 
166. 

rujficollis saturatus, Pomatorhinus, 

rufipedoides, Falco, 108. 

, ——- severus, 107. 

rufiventer, Corythocichla brevicaudata, 
62. 


rujiventris, Tchitrea, 140. 
sinensis, Monticola, 148. 
rufogularis laotianus, Arborophila, 


laotinus, Arborophila, 8, 95. 

rufotinctus, Casuarius unappendicu- 
latus, 26. 

rufulus lucie, Gampsorhynchus, 16. 

lynest, Anthus, 25. . 

ruppelli, Plectropterus gambensis, 148. 

rusticola, Scolopax, 141. 


sabinei, Capella, 141. 

sabota, Mirafra sabota, 30. 

ansorget, Mirafra, 29, 30. 

nevia, Mirafra, 30. 

plebeja, Mirafra, 30. 

sabota, Mirafra, 30. 

waibeli, Mirafra, 30. 

sacer, Gennaia, 91. 

saceroides, Gennaia, 91. 

sancti-nicolai, Strix aluco, 40. 

sanghirana, Anthreptes malacensis, 68. 

sanguiniceps, Picus canus, 41. 

Sasia ochracea querulivox, 
subsp. n., 43. 

saturatus, Cerchneis tinnunculus, 103. 

, Falco, 106. 

— ., Phodilus saturatus, 121. 

, Pomatorhinus ruficollis, 159. 

Saxicola dumetoria, 120. 

pyrrhonota, 120. 

torquata defontanesi, 1338. 

Scenopeetes, 80. 

schach schach, Lanius, 188. 

schlegeli, Catarrhactes, 140. 

schneideri, Pitta, 156. 

schwebischt, Himinia, 119. 

sctoanus, Plectropterus, 145. 

scirpaceus, Acrocephalus, 66. 

Scolopax rusticola, 141. 

scutulata isolata, Ninox, 60. 

senegalensis, Podica, 139. 

leoninus, Zosterops, 86. 

Sericulus melinus, 80. 

serrator, Clamator, 139. 

Setaria albigularis leucogas- 
tra, subsp. n., 54, 93. 


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severus rufipedoides, Falco, 107. 

sibirica, Emberiza elegans, 35. 

sieboldi muriele, Sphenurus, 152. 

stemundi modestus, Sphenurus, 10. 

sifanica, Perdix hodgsonie, 38. 

simus, Cacomantis, 140. 

sinensis, Monticola rufiventris, 148. 

meridionalis, Pycnonotus, 157. 

Siphia innexa, 75. 

strephiata strophiata, 138, 140. 

smyrnensis smyrnensis, Halcyon, 87. 

zugmayert, Halcyon, 87. 

soderstromi, Hriocnemis, 62. 

solitarius, Cuculus, 139. 

-—., Didus, 144. 

spadicea, Attila, 140. 

Sphenurus apicauda laoti- 
anus, subsp. n., 10. 

— sieboldi muriele, subsp. n., 
152. 

—— siemundi modestus, subsp. 
vivre () 

sphenurus annamensis, 
subsp. n., 9. 

spilocephalus, Otus, 121. 

huttont, Ephialtes, 127. 

—— lucie, Otus, 126. 

stresemanmi, Athenoptera, 126. 

Spizixus canifrons laotianus, 
subsp. n., 14. 

stejnegert, Zosterops palpebrosa, 145. 

stelle goliathina, Charmosyna, 141. 

stephensoni, Dryobates cabanist, 42. 

Stercorarius longicaudus, 139. 

parasiticus, 139. 

pomarinus, 131. 

Sterna sumatrana, 1380. 

stresemanni, Athenoptera spilocepha- 
lus, 126. 

-, Dryobates cabanist, 42. 

striatus atricapillus, Butorides, 148. 

Strix aluco harms, 40. 

obscurata, subsp. n., 39. 

sancti-nicolat, 40. 

—  newarensis laotianus, 
subsp. n., 11. 

strophiata strophiata, Siphia, 138, 140. 

striimpelli, Mirafra, 30. 

stubelit, Oxypogon, 64. 

suahelica, Chloropetella, 3). 

subrufus, Hupetes macrocercus, 54, '75, 
94, 


suffusus, Casuarius unappendiculatus, 


sumatrana, Bhringa remifer, 57, 94. 

, Sterna, 130. 

sumatranus, Dendrobiastes hypery- 
thrus, 52, 93. 

superciliaris klossi, Suya, 53. 

Suthora davidiana tonkinen- 
sis, subsp. n., 167. 


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Suya superciliaris klossi, 
subsp. n., 53. 


taivanicus, Dendrobiastes hyperythrus, 
52, 75. 

taivanorum, Horornis canturians, 58. 

takatsukase, Phasianus colchicus, 151. 

Tchitrea camburni, 139. 

ignea, 139. 

—— rufiventris, 140. 

——- tricolor, 140. 

tenebrosus, Phasianus colchicus, 51, 

42 


tenuiceps, Gyps, 151. 

tenuirostris, Gyps indicus, 151. 

teresita, Hrannornis longicauda, 120. 

Tetrao urogallus lugens, 51. 

Tetraogallus altaicus orien- 
talis, subsp. n., 36. 

—— tibetanus centralis, subsp. 
N., Oi. 

—_ —— przewalskit, 37. 

—— —— tschimenensis, subsp. 
n., 30. 

Tetrastes bonasia griseiventris, 141. 

—— volgensis, 141. 

Thalurania ertphyle x T. glaucopis, 
134, 


glaucopis x T. eriphyle, 134. 
Thaumalea obscura, 51. 
Thereiceryx  faiostrictus 
pallidus, subsp. n., 154. 
thibetanus, Parus major, 166. 
tibetanus centralis, Tetraogallus, 37. 
przewalskii, Tetraogallus, 37. 
—— tschimenensis, Tetraogallus, 36. 
ticehursti, Emberiza elegans, 39. 
tickelli annamensis, Drymocataphus, 
lye 
friesi, Pomatorhinus, 160. 
—— laotianus, Pomatorhinus, 16. 
tonkinensis, Pomatorhinus, 159. 
tingitanus, Corvus corax, 133. 
Tinnunculus interstinctus, 106. 
tinnunculus, Falco, 105. 
subsp., Cerchneis, 103. 
dorriest, Cerchneis, 1038. 
interstinctus, Cerchneis, 1038. 
——- japonicus, Cerchneis, 103. 
, Falco, 105. 
objurgatus, Cerchneis, 106. 
saturatus, Cerchneis, 108. 
tinnunculus, Cerchneis, 108. 
tonkinensis, Cyanops franklint, 153. 
, Garrulax moniliger, 158. 
—, Pericrocotus brevirostris, 156. 
——., Pitta douglasi, 155. 
—., Pomatorhinus tickelli, 159. 
——, Suthora davidiana, 167. 
, Tropicoperdix charltoni, 152. 
torquata defontanesit, Saxicola, 138. 


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torquatus, Phasianus colchicus, 140. 
torquilla intermedia, Iynx, 73. 
trauli robinsoni, Oriolus, 168. 
tricolor, Tchitrea, 140. 
tristis, Cyanopica cyanea, 74. 
nigristriatus, Rhopodytes, 44. 
Trochalopterum affinis affinis, 112. 
milnei indochinensis, 
subsp. n., 158. 
Tropicoperdix charltoni ton- 
kinensis, subsp. n., 152. 
merlini vivida, subsp. n., 9. 
tschimenensis, Tetraogallus tibetanus, 


turcomanus, Bubo bubo, 72. 

Turdinulus epilepidotus lao- 
tianus, subsp. n., 17. 

Turdinus macrodactylus 
bakeri, subsp. n., 54, 93. 

Turdus ambiguus, 199.4% 

Tympanuchus cupido : pallidicinctus, 
141. 

Tyto alba alba, 133. 

gracilirostris, 133. 


anappendiculatus aurantiacus, Casu- 
arius, 27. 

laglaizei, Casuarius, 26, 27. 

—— mitratus, Casuarius, 26, 27. 

occipitalis, Casuarius, 26, 27. 

—— philipi, Casuarius, 26, 27. 

_ rothschildi, Casuarius, 26, 27. 

rufotinctus, Casuarius, 26,27. 

suffusus, Casuarius, 27. 

—— unappendiculatus, Casuarius, 26, 
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wrogallus lugens, Tetrao, 51. 


varennet, Dryonastes, 15. 
ventralis, Accipiter, 139. 
vernalis rubropygialis, Coryllis, 44. 
versicolor, Accipiter, 139. 

, Phasianus colchicus, 141. 
vidua, Motacilla, 67. 

virens magnifica, Megalaima, 43. 
viridanus meridianus, Picus, 95. 
vivida, Tropicoperdix merlini, 9. 
volgensis, Tetrastes bonasa, 141. 
waibeli, Mirafra sabota, 30. 


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wallacet, Dissemurus paradiseus, 58, 
75, 94. 

wardi, Pyrotrogon, 112. 

weberi, Picus ( Gecinus), 95. 

wellsi, Francolinus pintadeanus, 9. 

westermannt, Muscicapula melano- 
leuca, 144. 

whiteheadi, Diceum hematostictum, 
55. 

xanthomelana, Cissopica, 164. 

whitelyt, Glaucidium  cuculoides, 
Ib. 

willoughbyi, Pitta cyanea, 12. 


Xanthixus flavescens ber- 
liozi, subsp. n., 14. 

wanthomelana, Cissopica whiteheadi, 
164. 

xanthophrys, Estrilda, 32, 120, 


yarrelli, Motacilla, 67. 

yelkouan, Puffinus puffinus, 131. 

Yungipicus hardwicki brun- 
neiceps, subsp. n., 42. 


zeylonicus, Amaurornis fuscus, 
3 


Zosterops aureiventer media, 93. 
parvus, subsp. n., 56, 


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—— fusca, 40. 
—— palpebrosa alam, 145 
boninsime, subsp. n., 


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—— — cacharensis, 89, 90. 

— egregia, 90. 

— elwesi, 88. 

— —— harterti, subsp. n., 56. 

—_—— nicobariensis, YO. 

—— —— nilgiriensis, subsp. n., 
89. 

—— — occidentis, subsp. n., 
88. 


palpebrosa, 88. 

—— —— stejnegeri, 145. 

senegalensis leoninus, 
subsp. n., 86. 

zugmayeri, Halcyon smyrnensis, 87. 


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