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C. Robinson: Birds from Pulau Langkawi. 16;
C. guttacristatm indomalayicus, Southern Siam and
North Malay Peninsula, Wing 156 mm. (mean of twelve. )
C. gnttacristatus delessertii, Southern India. Wing
averaging 152.
C. guttacristatus {unnamed). Extreme south Malay
Peninsula, Wing, 145 mm.
The bills grade in even greater ratio.
The maximum range of wing of the species as a whole is
from about 190 to 143 or a subspecies to every nine mm. as
all authorities seem agreed that no constant differences in
colouration can be detected except possibly as noted above, a
slightly more intense tint in the Indo-Chinese and Indo-
Malayan specimens.
61. Alophonerpes pulverulentus (subsp.) ?
lit. p. 40,4.
Hemilophus pulverulentus iTemm.) ; Hargitt, torn.
Alophonerpes pulverulentus. Robinson and Kloss, p.
47: Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 95.
Miilleripicus pulverulentus harterti, Hesse Ornith.
Monatsb. xix, p. 182 (191 2), Gyldenstolpe, p. 96.
a-b. t ? Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S. W. Siam.
10th January, 1917. [Nos. 3872, 3.]
c. £ Telok Wau, Terutau, 27th December, 1916.
[No. 3761.:
d. ¥ Pulau Terutau, 3rd December 1907.
[F.M.S. Mus. 2907/97.]
e. $ Pulau Langkawi. 9th February 1909.
[F.M.S. Mus. 309/09.]
f-g. 3 & Ulu Malacca. Pulau Langkawi 29th
December 1912.
I have no access to Hesse's description of this form
described from Burmah but which is apparently merely a
larger form of the Malayan race, nor have I specimens from
Java whence came Temminck's type so these specimens cannot
at present be identified subspeciiically with any certainty.
The wings of the males are 222, 228, 228 and of the four
females, 221, 227, 227, 235, while Glydenstolpe's two males
from North Siam which would certainly belong to Hesse's
race are given as 242. 235. A female from Kuala Lipis.
Pahang is 229 mm.
Compared with a female from Anyut Paku, Seribas, S. W.
Sarawak, whose wing measures 230 mm. all the Malayan birds
are much greyer and less slaty black, especially on the top of
the head, the mantle and undersurface, but this difference may
be merely individual.
" Iris dark hazel, orbits -date, tall greenish horn, culmen
at base darker feet slate.'"