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228 Journal of the F.M.S. Musemns. lVol. VI,
Philentoma pyrrhopterum (Temm.).
Philentoma pyrrhopterum (Temm.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds
Brit. Mus. iv, p. 366 (1879)
; Robinson & KlosSi Ibis, 1911, p. 53;
Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. v, p, 100 (1914).
a, b. I Male, i Female. Kedah Peak, 3,000 ft. 9th
December 1915. [Nos. 2,219—20.]
"Male: iris red, bill black, feet lavender. Female: iris
red, bill pale horn, whitish at gape, feet pale brown." [H.C.R.
& C.B.K.]
Widely distributed all over the Peninsula, commoner in
the more northern districts.
Rhinomyias pectoralis (Salvad).
Rhinomyias pectoralis (Salvad.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds
Brit. Mus. iv, p. 368 (1879)"; Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix, p.
553 (1902).
a— b. I Male, i Female. Kedah Peak, 3,000 ft. 2-5th
December 1915. [Nos. 2,146, 2,184.]
" Iris hazel, bill black, feet livid purplish pink."
[H.C.R. & C.B.K.]
Not very common an\vvhere but found at medium elevations
throughout the Peninsula.
Chloropsis icterocephala (Less).
Chloropsis icterocephala (Less.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit.
Mus. vi, p. 30 (188 1).
a—f. 4 Males, 2 Females. Kedah Peak, 3,000 ft. 3rd-8th
December 1915. [Nos. 2,155, 2,175, 2,182, 2,197, 2,209-10.]
Male: iris rich hazel brown, bill black, feet greenish lead.
Female: iris chestnut, bill slate, greenish slate on lower
mandible, feet pale greenish plumbeous." [H.C.R. &
C.B.K.]
Fairly common on the peak, which is nearly the northern
limit of the species. The form occurring in Trang and
Bandon is C. chlorocephala, while birds from Perlis immediately
to the north of Kedah are intermediate.
Hemixus cinereus i
Hemixus cinereus (Blyth).
Blyth)
; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.
vi, p. 52, pi. II (1881).
a— h. 8 Males. Kedah Peak, 3,000 ft. 29th November-7th
December 1915. [Nos. 2,103-4, 2,138, 2,147, 2,165-6, 2,198,
2,201.]
" Iris red or chocolate, bill black, feet greyish brown,
soles yellowish flesh. Common everywhere on the hill in
parties of two or three.
Several of the specimens have the undertail coverts faintly
washed with greenish, which is apparently an indication of
immaturity.