^0.1318. BIRDS OF NORTItWEST SUMATRA— RICHMOND. 497 



EUDYNAMYS HONORATA MALAYANA (Cabanis and Heine). 



K[^ndynamls] malayana Cabanis and Heine, Mu.s. Heiu., IV, Ft. 1, 18(52, p. 52 

 (Sunda Islands; Sumatra). 



"Common" on Simalur and liabi; also noted on Lasia. 

 ; One specimen each, from Simalur, Babi, and Loh Sidoh Ba}'. The 

 first (female) measures, length, 307; wing, 187; the second (male), 

 'ieng-th, 438; Aving, 205; bill, from gape, -13; the third (male), length, 

 419; wing, li»5 mm. 



RHOPODYTES DIARDI (Lesson). 

 Melina dlardi Lesson, Traite d'Orn. (Pt. 2), May, 1831, p. 132 (Java). 



[ An adult female, from Tapanuli Bay. Length, 368 mm. "Iris 

 dark brown?, sclera blue; naked skin about eye deep crimson; feet 

 lark leaden; bill green, with a pale blue spot above nostril." 



PHCENICOPHAUS ERYTHROGNATHUS Bonaparte. 



[Pliaoiicophaeus'] eryihroynathus "Temm." Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Avium, I, 

 1849, p. 98 (Sumatra). 



One adult male, from Loh Sidoh Bay. Length, -±57 mm. 



The ditferences in plumage between males and females of the allied 

 P. microrkinus, pointed out by Berlepsch" and confirmed by Biitti- 

 kofer,^ are equally evident in this species. Another sexual character, 

 apparently not before mentioned, is the color of the iris, which is blue 

 in the male and orange yellow or yellow in the female. Biittikofer 

 found the color of the iris Jn P. microrhinus'to be very variable, but 

 considered it to be independent of age or sex.^ 



Family CORACIID^. 



EURYSTOMUS CALONYX Sharpe. 



Eurystomus cahmy.v "(Hodos. )" Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., Pt. 3, 1890, p. 551 



(Nepal'O. 

 •A few seen" on Simalui-, where an adult male was obtained 

 December 15. 



«Nov. Zool., II, p. 73. 



. & Notes Leyden Mas., XXI, p. 172. 



I cidem, p. 171. 



i <^This locality is not specifically mentioned in the original description, where only 



Uhe general distribution of the species is given (" extends throughout the Himalayan 

 Terai from Kumaon to Darjiling and upper Assam, probal)ly breeding throughout 

 theMdiole of this range"). Later, we learn (Catal. Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 

 p. 38) that the type is from Nepal. It is a common practice with many Eurojiean 

 authors to give the entire distribution of a new species, at the same time omitting the 

 all-important type locality. 



