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by Mr. Buxton were considerably varied or washed with red 

 on the back. All I can say is, that a male of C. miniatum from 

 East Java, collected by Mr. Wallace, and forming part of 

 the British Museum collection, is quite different from C. 

 malaccense. It is possible that in the younger stages of 

 plumages the Javan and the Malaccan birds may resemble 

 each other ; never having seen the young of C. miniatum, I 

 cannot say, but in the fully adult dress the Malaccan bird 

 never assumes the red back, and has at most a few spots or 

 blotches of this colour. I have examined a very large series 

 of C. malaccense in the British Museum (comprising the 

 Hume Collection) as well as those in my own cabinet, and I 

 have not found a single specimen from any locality that 

 could be mistaken for the Javan bird, neither have I seen 

 any examples of C. miniatum from Java that could not be 

 readily separated from the Malaccan species. C. malaccense 

 is found in Southern Tenasserim, throughout the Malayan 

 Peninsula, and also in Sumatra, Bangka, and Borneo. In 

 Tenasserim, according to Messrs. Hume and Davison, it is 

 confined to the southern portions of the province and is 

 rather common. Mr. Davison, in his note on this species 

 (Str. F. vi. p. 141, 1878), says : — " A bird of the evergreen 

 forests, not occurring in open country, but, unlike the other 

 Callolophi, rather partial to mangrove swamps, in which I 

 have shot them. These, too, I never saw on the ground. It 

 has none of the peculiar habits of C. puniceus, and its note 

 rather resembles that of the Gecini." Tavoy is the most 

 northern locality whence the latter collector obtained speci- 

 mens. Mr. E. C. Buxton procured it at Lampongin South- 

 east Sumatra; and from the same island, as well as from 

 Bangka, there are examples in the Leiden Museum. In the 

 British Museum there are two specimens from Sumatra, one 

 having been collected by Raffles and formerly in the Indian 

 Museum, the other having been obtained in the island by 

 Mr. Wallace. In Borneo, Governor Ussher found this species 

 in Lumbidan, Brunei, and on Moara Island, and it was pro- 

 cured by Mr. Treacher on the Lawas River. Mr. Everett 

 forwarded specimens from Sibu and Matu, and at Sarawak it 

 was obtained by the Marquis Doria and Dr. Beccari. 



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