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jirojior. There is, however, no dmibt that au entirely distinct species, .1. rhodolaema 

 Shell., occurs in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, althou.ijh Gadow did not recog- 

 nise it in the Catalogue of B. (ix., p. 123). The specimens which I procured in Deli. 

 N.E. Sumatra, and which I recorded as A. mnlarcnnsix (J. f. 0.. 18S9, j). 350), are 

 A . rhodolaema Shell. 



27. Anthi'eptes simplex (Miill.). 

 Bunguran. (Tenasserim, Malacca, Borneo, ami Sumatra.) 



28. Anthi-eptes hypogrammica (MiUL). 



Three males from Bunguran. Identical with specimens from Borneo. (Distri- 

 buted over the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo.) 



29. Chalcoparia singalensis (Gm.). 



Aiithrejites phoi'nicotix Shell., Monoyr. Nectariii., p. 32.5, PI. 105. 



Atifhotlireptes jthocnirotii< Gadow, Cat. B., ix., p. 121. 



Chalcoparia plwetiii-otis Gates, Fauna Brit. Inil., B. ii., p. 373 (see also p. 372). 



Bunguran. 



Cabanis, Tweeddale, Hume, Gates (B. Bnrinah), and others hud generally used 

 the oldest name (Motacilla singalensis Gmel., S. N., i., ]>. 964), but recently ornitho- 

 logists used to call the species ^4. phoenicotix, although that name was given thirty-six 

 )'ears later. Cabanis {Mas. ILin., i., ]). 103) founded the genus Chalcoparia, and 

 Gates (i'.c,'.) wrote about the value of this genus iu 1890, stating that, in his opinion, 

 the bird in question was no Sun-bird at all. Whether he is right in this latter 

 surmise or not, there is no doubt that his reasons for the distinctness of the genus 

 are very clear, and the genus Chalcnparia, already recognised forty-four years ago 

 by the keen eye of Cabanis, should be recognised. 



C. singalensis is distributed from the Sikkim Terai through Assam, Cachar, 

 Manipur, Arrakan, Tenasserim, down the Malay Peninsula, to Sumatra, Borneo, 

 and .Tava. 



30. Aethopyga siparaja (Raffl.). 



A series of this beautiful bird from Bunguran. The colour of the abdomen 

 varies a little, and in some males it is almost as olive as in the specimen from 

 Borneo tigured on PL 57 of the Monogr. Nectarin. by Shelley, while others have 

 it as grey as usual. 



31. Arachnothera longirostris (Liith.). 



Common on Bunguran and Sirhassen Islands. (Gccurs in India, the Andamaus^ 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes.) 



32. Motacilla flava L. 

 Young and in winter i)lumage from Sirhassen and Bunguran (winter visitor). 



33. Artamus leucogaster (Valenc). 



Three .specimens from Bunguran, one from Sirhassen. The occuirrence of this 

 species is of considerable interest, because it is a Bornaan, or at least " insulai- " 

 element ; while the ornis of the Xatunas, to .judge from the present material, con- 

 tains chiefly Blalaccau, and not Bornean forms. A. lencogastrr is not recorde.l from the 



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