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1916.] H. C. Robinson & C. B. Kloss : Kedah Peak. 239
Precisely agreeing with southern specimens and showing
no approach to the northern form, P. g. burinanica, Sharpe.
Halcyon pileata (Bodd.).
a. I Male. Gurun Kedah, 50ft. 14th December, 1915.
[No. 2,256.]
SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS (Horsf.)
a. I Male. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. 13th December, 1915.
[No. 2,254.]
" Iris
& C.B.K.]
dark brown, bill, feet brownish black." [H.C.R.
HiEROCOCCYX NANUS, Hume.
Hierococcyx nanus, Hume; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Miis.
XXX, p. 238 (1892); Robinson & Kloss, Joiirn, Fed. Malay
States Mus. v, p. 172 (19 15).
a. I Male. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. December nth, 1915.
[No. 2,224.]
" Iris very dark brown, bill greenish slate, base of upper
mandible black, orbital skin and gape pale chrome, feet
yellow, claws pale wax yellow. [H.C.R. & C.B.K.]
This specimen agrees well with two others in the Museums,
one from the Krau River, Pahang, collected on 31st October,
1913 and another from Ginting Bidei, Selangor-Paliang
border, 2,300 ft., obtained on September 30th 1914.
Measurements of the above bird taken in the flesh.
Total length 281; wing 150; tail, 158; tarsus. 20; bill from
gape, 30 mm.
Wing of the Krau River Bird, 146 mm. Of the Ginting
Bidei one, 147 mm.
This species is extremely rare in the Malay Peninsula
proper and the above tliree specimens are the only ones from
our area of which we have any record, with the exception of
the birds from Salanga or Junk Zeylon, recorded by Muller
(Journ. fur. Orn. 1882, p. 405). It is probably commoner in
Tenasserim.
Rhopodytes diardi (Less.)
a. I Male. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. 13th December, 1915.
[No. 2,241.]
" Iris pale blue, orbital skin crimson lake, feet dark greenish
slate, bill sea green, area of nostrils bluish." [H.C.R &
C.B.K.]
1915.
Chotorhea versicolor (Raffles).
a—b. 2 Females. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. 12th December,
[Nos. 2,227, 2,233.]
" Iris chestnut, bill black, slaty at base, feet greenish
lead." [H.C.R. & C.B.K.]