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rectrices, shorter central reetriccs and In-ownisli edges to the outer edges of the 

 primaries cf. Grant, P. Z S. 1900. p. 474). 



J/ab. Hainan. 



(Shonld the examination of specimens from Pnlo Condore show that the form 

 from there is not like the one from the Malay Peiiinsnla, then the above nomen- 

 clature would be. altered thus, that A", m/n-ri/n/.s m.acrur/is woiM be the name for 

 the Pulo Condore form, while the form inhabiting the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 etc., would require a new name.) 



I'j'i. Trichixos pyrropyga Less. 



Tiuc/iU-os jji/rrop;/(/a Lesson, liev. ZooL 1S30. ]i. 107 (Sumatra). 

 One specimen from Pahang. 



107. Sitta frontalis saturatior subsp. uov. (?) 



\_Sitta frontalis Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. (1821) p. 162 (Java).] 



Two adult birds, both marked "c?," Gunong Tahan 4U00 and .5000— 7U00 ft., 

 September and October 1901. 



Both these skins agree with sjiecimeus of Sitta frontalis from India, the 

 Malay Peninsula, and Java, but the under surface is darker and more lilac, fully 

 as deej) as in the richest coloured S. corallines from Borneo, but the feet are not 

 red, but briiwn. There is in the Tring Museum a female from Palawan, which 

 is almost, but not quite, as dark as these two Gunong Tahan birds. 1 think the 

 latter must belong to a richly coloured mountain form, as it is most improbable 

 that the two birds should be exactly ajike, if they were mere aberrations. Should 

 that, however, be the case, the above name will conveniently be used for such 

 dark aberrations. 



(It is interesting to note that 



Sitta azurea Less. 



was obtained on the Gunong Ijau, in Perak, by Mr. Butler. The specimen seems 

 to agree perfectly with Java examples.) 



108. Aethopyga wrayi Sharj>e. 



Aetliopi/yit wraiji Sharpe, /'. Z. S. Is87. p. 44t) (Perak). 



A series from Gunong Tahan, between 29(J0 and .joijo and between 5900 and 

 70011 ft. 



Hitherto this pretty sunbird has only been known from the Gunong Ijau in 

 Perak, where it is very common on the Hibiscus flowers near "Maxwell's bungalow." 

 T\w females and young males are above olive-green, the head greyish, rumj) pale 

 sulphur-yellow, wings deep bniwn, margined on the outer webs with bronzy-green, 

 on the inner ones with white ; under wing-coverts yellowish white ; under side 

 pale greenish grey, more green in the young males. " Iris brown, bill black, 

 feet brown" (A. L. Butler), 



109. Anthreptes malaccensis (Scop.). 



Certhia malaccensis Scoj)., Del. Flor. et Faun. Insnbr. ii. (1786) p. 91 (ex 

 Sonnerat : Malacca). 



(?c?cJ?? juv. Sungei Lebeh, May 1901, Gunong Tahan between 2000 and 

 600U ft. 



