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IV. ON TWO NEW BIRDS FROM THE SOUTHERN
PORTION OF THE MALAY PENINSULA.
By Herblrt C. Robinson, M.B.O.U. and
C. BoDEN Kloss, M.B.O.U.
Ill 1911 {Ibis, p. 79) we recorded the dull coloured little
Flower Pecker, Piprisoma niodestiim (Hume), from Trang in
the north of the Malay Peninsula, noting this locality as the
most southerly hitherto recorded and, somewhat incautiously
perhaps, stating that it certainly does not occur in that portion
of the Malay Peninsula under British influence.
In this, however, we were in error, as amongst a collection
obtained by the Museum collectors in January, 1913, at Bukit
Tangga in Negri Sembilan, on a pass on the main Peninsular
divide at about 1,500 ft. altitude occur four specimens of what
are certainly this species. They, however, present sufficient
differences from two specimens from Trang to merit
separation as
PiPRISOMA MODESTUM subsp. REMOTUM, subsp. HOV.
Differing from the typical race in having the whole of
the upper surface, sides of the head and outer aspect of the
wings duller and darker grey, with less tinge of olive green.
White on outer tail feathers perhaps rather less extensive, but
this character not very marked. Total length, 3.8; wing,
2.37; tail, 1.4; bill from gape, 0.43 inches.
Type— Adult male, Bukit Tangga, Negri Sembilan, 1,500',
27th January, 1914 {nat. coll.) F. M. S. Mus. No. 1/14. Two
other males and a female from the same locality examined.
Remarks :
Bukit Tangga is nearly 400 miles distant from
the nearest locality from which P. modestuni has been obtained,
otherwise we should have hesitated to describe this form on
distinctions which are somewhat fine, though quite obvious in
the four specimens before us.
Rhinomyias tardus, sp. nov.
In September 1913 the Museum collectors obtained on
Bukit Tampin, a hill in Negri Sembilan near the Malacca
boundary rising to 2,500 ft., two examples of an unknown species
of Rhinomyias, and in the same month of the present year they
collected a third specimen at Genting Bidai, 2,300 ft., a pass
in the main range between Selangor and Pahang.
This species, which may be known as Rhinomyias tardus,
sp. nov. differs from R. pectoralis, the only other species
inhabiting the Malay Peninsuln, in being more olivaceous
throughout, the tail and edges of the wing feathers alone