166 Viscount Walden on Dr. Stoliczka's 



35. Dacelo PULCHELLA, Horsf. 



Carcineutes is a good genus, characterized by the notch at the 

 gape, and should be adopted for this species and its Bornean 

 ally. The example described seems to be one of a very old 

 bird, but not quite in full plumage. The chestnut collar dis- 

 appears in very old individuals, and the entire hinder neck is 

 blue. 



36. tEtHOPYGA LATHAMl (Jurd.). 



Since writing my paper on the eastern Sunbirds, I have had 

 the good fortune to acquire from Pinang a large series of the 

 species noticed under this title by Dr. Stoliczka. The correct title 

 for the Malaccan jEthopyga cannot be decided until Sumatran 

 examples of Certhia siparaja, Raffles, have been compared with it. 

 There is, and has been, little doubt that Nectnrinia lathami, Jard. 

 was desci-ibed from a Malaccan individual, or else from an example 

 not differing from the Malaccan species. But Sir Stamford^s 

 description of C. siparaja will equally well apply to the Malaccan 

 bird, the brown middle pair of rectrices notwithstanding, old 

 feathers not thrown off. Dr. Cabanis is the only author who 

 has maintained that the Malaccan J^ihopyga is distinct from 

 the Sumatran. His title, eupogon, certainly applies to the 

 Malaccan species, and I find, by comparison, that Labuan ex- 

 amples cannot be separated. But Dr. Cabanis does not leave it 

 quite clear that he had compared his eupogon v^iih. the Sumatran 

 siparaja. A Sumatran example, it is true, is enumerated as 

 being contained in the Halberstadt Museum ; but the localities 

 given in the Mus. Heineanum are not always trustworthy. As 

 a distinctive character. Dr. Cabanis says, " Bauch dunkelgrau, 

 ebenso die Weichen, welche nicht weiss sind.^^ Was he misled 

 by Temminck^s figure of N. mysticalis, with which Dr. Cabanis 

 identifies jE. siparaja ? Dr. Stoliczka places some reliance on 

 the tail being shorter than the wang in his examples. The two 

 middle rectrices in the Malaccan yEthopyga are seemingly shorter 

 in proportion than in ^. miles. Out of six adult Pinang males, 

 I find that the tail in three is shorter than the wing (2 inches) . 

 One has the tail an eighth of an inch longer than the wing. 

 Two have the tail equal to the wing. But according to Mr. 



