" Conh'ibutions to Malayan Ornitholofjy ." IGl 



1. HiERAX FRINGILLARIUS (Drap.) . 



There is much to be said in favour of Dr. Stoliczka's view 

 that H.eutolmus, Hodgs. = Fa/co ccerulescens, Linn. Edwards's 

 description agrees better with H. eutolmus than with the Ma- 

 laccan form ; but he says nothing about the white nuchal patch, 

 nor does he figure it. Mr. Blyth unites Javan and Malaccan 

 individuals under one species. A recomparison may show that 

 they differ ; and certainly Malaccan individuals do not well agree 

 with Horsfield's plate. Suraatran and Malaccan examples in 

 my collection are undistingnishable. I have received H. en^ 

 tolmus from Tongoo. 



2. LoRicuLus GALGULUs (Linn.). 



As the top of the head of L. vernalis is not red, Dr. Stoliczka 

 probably alludes to L. indicus (Gm.) . 



5. Harpactes kasumba (Raffles). 



The description of the individual noted as a doubtful female 

 of H. kasumba agrees well, and only, with the female of that 

 species. It is certainly not the female of the Ceylon and Mala- 

 bar H. fasciatus (Forst.). The bars on the wing-coverts of H. 

 kasumba, $ , are broader than in the male. In H. fasciatus there 

 is no difference between the form and proportions of the sexes ; 

 their colour alone distinguishes them. Labuan examples of 

 //. kasumba do not differ from Malaccan. 



Four species of Harpactes, as surmised by Mr. Wallace, exist 

 in the Malaccan peninsula : — 1. H. kasumba (Raffl.) ; 2. H. 

 diardi {Temm.) ; 3. H. duvaucelii (Temm.) ; 4i. H.rutilus (Vieill. 

 ap. Gould). This last is assuredly a species distinct from H. 

 duvaucelii, as Mr. Gould was the first to point out. I possess 

 examples of both species from Malacca. 



Dr. Cabanis (Mus. Hein. iv. p. 154) refers Trogon duvaucelii, 

 Temm., to T. rutilus Vieill., and regards it as an insular species. 

 H. rutilus, Vieill. ap. Gould, with a uniform cinnamon-coloured 

 upper plumage, Dr. Cabanis [torn. cit. p. 156) describes as a new 

 species, from Malacca, under the title of Pyrotrogon orrhophceus, 

 and considers it to be the continental representative of the Suma- 

 tran T. duvaucelii. he couroucou cannelle male, of Le Vaillant, 

 on which both T. rutilus, Vieill., and T. cinnamomeus, Temm,, 



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