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British Museum, and is from Jaram, Selangor, Malay Peninsula; 

 for which information I am further indebted to Mr. Charles Chubb.^ 

 The latter must therefore be considered the proper type locality of 

 Halcyon kumii Sharpe. 



Measurements of the specimens of Sauropatis chloris armstrongi 

 examined in the present connection are presented in the appended 

 table. 



Measurements of specimens of Sauropatis chloris armstrongi. 



' Measured in the flesh by the collector. 



SAUROPATIS CHLORIS DAVISONI (Sliarpe). 



Halcyon humii subsp. /3. davisoni Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 17, 

 1892, p. 282 (Andaman Islands). 



Suhsj)ecific characters. — Similar to Sauropatis chloris armstronffi, 

 but male with all the posterior lower surface and the white cervical 

 collar usually much suffused with buff; upper parts averaging duller, 

 more greenish, particularly on the back just below the white collar, 

 where the greenish is often shaded with dusky; ear-coverts usually 

 more blackish ; black nuchal band more conspicuous, less washed 

 with greenish; female with white cervical collar tinged with buff; 

 and with the back blackish just below this white collar. 



* In a letter. 



