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i-|N Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII.
Entomothera coromanda coromanda, Oberholser, Proc.
U. S. Nat. Mas. 48, p. 642 (1915).
Halcyon coromanda coromanda, Gyldcnstolpe, p. 116.
a-b. 1 ? ad. Kuah, Pulau Langkawi. 28th April.
t9i5-
c d. & v nd. Sungei Udang, Pulan Terutau.
February. March, 1909.
The two males have the wing, 105, no mm. and the
females 108, in and are slightly darker than two females
from Trang and Selangor which have the wings 116 and 113
mm. A slightly immature male shot in November on Pulau
Jemor, Aroa Ids. in the middle of the Straits of Malacca has
the wing 113 mm.
Oberholser (loc. cit. p. 642) considers the species as
"strictly resident" but it is probable that like many other
purely intertropical species it performs migrations of limited
range. I am therefore inclined to doubt the validity of the
race established for Sumatra (East and West), and Banka, E.
coromanda neophora, Oberholser {loc. cit. p. 646). So far as I
am able to judge from an adult male shot on gt^ October,
1915, at Sungei Pelandok, Paku Seribas. S. W. Sarawak, the
Bornean race. H. c. minor iTemm. and Schleg.) is quite
separable from the typical form by its rich, darker colouration,
the upper surface more strongly washed with lilac, and
slightly smaller size. I have not as yet been able to examine
good specimens from Singapore Island, which is stated by
Oberholser to be inhabited by this form.
The species occurs also on Tioman but specimens from
that island are too immature to identifv subspecifically with
any certainty.
37.
Halcyon pileata (Bodd.)
Sharpe. torn. cit. p. 229; Robinson and Kloss. p. 31;
Robinson, Ibis. IQT5. p. 732: Gyldenstolpe, p. 116.
a-c. $,2 $ Pulau Langkawi, 27th November. 1907.
[F.M.S. Mus. 2897-9/07.]
d. 1. Pulau Langkawi, 10th Februarv, 1909,
e.
[F.M.S. Mus. 485/09.]
1 . Telok Apau, Pulau Langkawi,
ber, 1912.
15th Decem-
/. I . Pulau
Dayang Bunting. Langkawi. 8th
December 1916. [No. 3603.]
g. ?. Telok Wau, Terutau. 29th December, 1916.
[No. 3787O
" Iris dark, bill vermilion, darker at base, tarsi and
toes vermilion, the latter darker."