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im. Graucaliis sumatrensis (S. Miill). 



Ceblepyris sumatrensis S. Miill., Li(ii(l-cn-Vol/;ciik. \^. I'.ih (1^44) fSunialnO. 

 cJcJ? ? ?. Snngei Lcbeh, May 1901. 



102. Graucalus larutensis (Shavpp). 



Artamiilcs hiriitensis Sli.arpo, J'. Z. >S. ls&7. p. 435 (Mts. ol' I'crak). 



(? ?. (Jiiiiong Tahaii, October 19i)l, rxMMl—TIMM] ft. 



cf . Gnnoiig Ijan, March 1898, 4iJUii ft., A. L. Butler coll. 



" Iris brownish crimson, bill and feet black" (Hiitler). 



This very interesting species, hitherto only known from the nionntains of 

 Perak (Wray coll.), belongs to the larmtns group, inasninch as Vue.fi'mak resembles 

 the mule, and is not strongly barred below as the Jemales ol the s/imatrensis group. 

 The Tnale of G. larutensis is well described by Sharpe, I.e., though his comparison 

 with larvatus is quite misleading, as he had for comparison a female or young 

 ■male of the latter, which he erroneously believed to be an " adult male," I have 

 mentioned this wrong description of the " adult male " of G. larvatus in the 

 Cat. B. iv. p. 11 on two former occasions. The fact is, that G. larutensis c? ad. 

 differs from G. larvatus in having a dark slaty grey, not pure black, throat, in not 

 having rhe entire ear-coverts deep black, in having some white on the under wing- 

 coverts, in having white (with few obsolete bars), not deep grey under tail-coverts, 

 and in being very much larger, wing 165 mm. against 145 in G. larmtun. The 

 /email' of G. larutensis is smaller than the male ; wing 155 to 159 mm. Colour 

 above as in the male. Lores and sides of head without black, chin and throat 

 without black, rest of under surface lighter, whitish with a few quite inilistinct and 

 obsolete bars on the lower abdomen, under wing-coverts and a.xillaries white with 

 blackish bars. 



Wi. Pericrocotus montanus Salvad. 



Pericrocotns moHtariHs't'<ix\\o.A., Ann. Mas. Cic. xiv. (1879) p. L'()5 (Mt. Singalan. 

 Sumatra). 



I'erierocotus u-rai/i tSiiarpe, /'. Z. S. 1888. p. :.'i;9. PI. X\'. (I'erakj. 



Pericrocotns cinereiyula Sharpe, Ibis 1889. j). 192 (Kina Bain). 



c?c? ? and juv. Mt. Tahan, 5i)0()— TOOO ft. 



(J ad . tinnong Ijau, Perak, 4(lll0 ft., A. L. Butler coll. " liis brown." 



1 have before me a very fine series from the Kina Balu in Borneo, inclnding 

 the type of P. cinereiyula, which is a (probably immature) variety, a fine Sumatran 

 specimen, no. c. of the Si liambi list of Count Salvador!, and five Perak e.Kamples, 

 and I feel perfectly certain, from this series, that /'. montanus, wraiji, and cinrreiyula 

 belong to the same species. Ur. Sharpe, though having seen similar varieties from 

 Sumatra, could (J/jts 1892 p. 435) not make up his mind to acknowledge the 

 identity of his cinereiyula with montanus, but he (I.e.) admitted that wrai/i was the 

 same as montanus. Nevertheless, recently {Ilauilzlist iii. ji. 301). 1991) he enumerates 

 montanus, wrayi and cinereiyula as three distinct s])ccies. I have no doubt about 

 the course to ado])t in this case, but I have before me a bird marked " ? ,"' shot 

 by Mr. Butler on the Gunong Ijan, at 409U ft., in March I89,s. Hitherto I had it 

 in the drawer marked a P. n-rai/i ? (?). I believe now that it cainiot belong to 

 P. wrayi, or rather P. montanus. It may be described as a P. montanus with the 



