jml3i8. BIRDS OF NORTHWEST SUMATRA— RICHMOND. 517 



Family LANIIDJE. 



LANIUS TIGRINUS Drapiez. 



Lanius tigrinus Dkapikz, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., XIII, 1828, p. 528 (Java). 



Two males, from Simalur, where it was "not common." Length, 

 178 mm. "Iris dark brown." 



PLATYLOPHUS CORONATUS (Raffles). 



Lanius coronains Raffles, Trans. Linu. Soc. Lond., XIII, Pt. 2, 1822, p. 306 

 (Sumatra). 



Three specimens, from Tapanuli Bay. Length, 270 (female) to 280 

 (male) mm. "Feet leaden blue." , 



Family ORIOLID^. 



ORIOLUS MUNDUS, new species. 



Type.— Adult male, No. 179268, U.S.N.M.; Simalur Island, west 

 coast of Sumatra, November 19, 1901; Dr. W. L. Abbott. General 

 color bright lemon yellow, inclining to cadmium yellow, especially on 

 back, breast, and sides of neck; paler on greater wing-coverts, axilla- 

 ries, under wing-coverts, abdomen, and under tail-coverts; wing- 

 feathers, including alula, black; third to sixth primaries very narrowlv 

 edged with white on outer webs; secondaries with almost obsolete pale 

 yellow tips, the yellow (extending down the shaft on the innermost 

 feather; primary coverts all black, without a yellow specuhun; under 

 surface of primaries with a narrow white border on inner webs. Lores, 

 a line over and under the eye, passing back to and including the nape, 

 black (the black 11 mm. wide, on nape); middle tail feathers black, 

 narrowly tipped with yellow, and very narrowly edged with j^ellow 

 on both webs for a short distance; remainder of tail black, tipped with 

 3'ellow, the outermost feathers black on basal half, the inner ones with 

 the black extending progressivel}^ toward the tips. 



Length, 280; wing, 151; tail, 103; tarsus, 26; culmen, 35 (bill, from 

 gape, 40 mm.). "Iris dull red; feet leaden." 



The female is duller than the male, with a greenish-yellow wash on the 

 back, central tail feathers, wing-coverts, and outer webs of tertiaries. 



Oriolus mundus belongs to the black-naped section of the genus, in 

 the group of species having no wing speculum, but it is not very nearly 

 allied to any described species. It differs from most, if not all, of the 

 members of this group in having the back and mantle clear rich yel- 

 low, not sordid or greenish. 



Four specimens, from Simalur. 



ORIOLUS MACULATUS Vieillot. 



Oriolus tnaculatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XVIII, 1817, p. 194 

 (Java). 



One adult female, from Loh Sidoh Ba3^ Length, 260; wing, 142 

 mm. "Iris red." 



