NO. i:nH. BIRDS OF NORTHWEST SUMA TRA^RICHMOND. 505 



Family PYCNONOTID.E. 



CHLOROPSIS CYANOPOGON { Temminck) . 



Phyllonua cijanopogon Temminck, PI. Col., IV (Pt. 81), October, 1S29, pi. dxii, 

 fig. 1 (Sumatra). 



All iidult male, from Tapanuli Bay. Lenj^th, 178 mm. 



IRENA CRINIGER Sharpe. 



Irena criniger Sharpe, Catal. Birds Brit. Mus., Ill, 1877, ]). 267 (Borneo and 

 Sumatra). 



Six specimens, from Pulo Mansalar, Tapamili Bay, and Tuangku. 

 These birds are identical in color with / criniger, but the Tuangku 

 specimens, four in number, differ in having larger and heavier bills, 

 with rather larger wings (bill, from gape, 30; wing, 123-129 mm.). 



"Common," on Tuangku. 



HEMIXUS MALACCENSIS (Blyth). 



H\ypsipetes\ malacccnsis Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soe. Beng., XIV, I't. 2, 1845, 

 p. 574 (Malacca). 



Four specimens, all from Tapanuli Bay. Length, 219-229 mm. 



"These two pairs shot in heavy forest on Gunong K^bong. where 



they were pretty common. Iris' clear brown; feet dark fleshy 



brown." 



IDLE OLIVACEA Blyth. 



T[ple\ olivacea Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., XIII, Pt. 1, 1844, p. 386 (sup- 

 posed to be from Singapore). • 



An adult male, from Tapanuli Ba}. Length, 19-1 mm. "Iris 

 gray." 



EUPTILOSUS EUTILOSUS (Jardine and Selby) . 



Bracliypus cut ilosus J AUDI'S^ and >Selby, Illustr. Orn., new ser., No. 1, Feliruary, 

 1837, pi. Ill (Singapore). 



One specimen, from Tapanuli Bay. Length, 206 mm. "Iris red; 

 bill and feet black." 



MICROTARSUS MELANOCEPHALOS (Gmelin). 



[Lanius] mekmociphalos Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. 1, 1788, p. 309 ( "in insulis Sand- 

 wich maris australis"). 



Seven adults from Simalur and one from Tapanuli Bay. The Sim- 

 alur birds do fiot differ in color from those of Borneo and the Malay 

 Peninsula, but the bills are perceptil:)ly stouter. Length, 172-18-1; 

 wing, 77-79 mm. "The oulj^ bulbul noticed. Common about the 

 clearings in scrubby jungle" (Simalur). 



TRICHOLESTES CRINIGER (Blyth). 



Br{achypodiuH\? criniger "A. Hay" Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., XIV, Pt. 

 2, 1845, p. 577 (Malacca). 



Three specimens are in the collection, from Pulo Mansalar and Tapa- 

 nuli Bay. 



