756 Mr. H. C. Robinson on Birds collected on the 



The male from Koh Kut has the middle of the upper 

 breast flecked with scarlet. 



Hartert (Nov. Zool. xvii. 1910, pp. 244-5) recognises three 

 races of this Flow^er-pecker, viz.,i)?c««fm cruentattim (Linn.) 

 from " India/^ with the upper wing-coverts '^ glossy steel- 

 b]ue " and a slender bill; D. c. ignitum (Begbie) from the 

 Malay Peninsula, with the wing-coverts purplish blue ; and 

 Z>. c. CGccineum (Scop.) from south China and Hainan, 

 with the wiug-coverts steel-blue rather more greenish than 

 purplish," with a larger bill and longer wings than the 

 Indian form. I am unable to recognise any constant 

 differences in the above series and in specimens from the 

 Malay Peninsula, which in some instances have the wing- 

 coverts with a very distinct greenish cast. The Siamese 

 specimens have the wing very slightly longer. 



Dicaeum chrysorrhoeum, 



DiccBum chri/so7'rhosum Temm . ; Sharpe, Cat. x. 1885, p. 41. 



a. 1 J . Ok Yam, Franco-Siamese Boundary (on coast). 

 2 Jan., 1915. 



"Iris orange; upper mandible black, lower plumbeous; 

 feet slaty black. Associated with the following species in 

 the trees dotting the common land about Ok Yam village." 

 — C. B. K. 



Apparently slightly larger and a little more yellowish 

 above than Malayan specimens, of which, however, not 

 many are available. 



Piprisoma modestum modestmn. 



Prionochilus modestus (Hume) ; Sharpe, Cat. x. 1885, 

 p. 32. 



Piprisoma modestum Gates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. 

 1890, p. 383 ; Robinson & Kloss, Ibis, 1911, p. 79. 



a-d. 4 $ . Ok Y'^am, Franco-Siamese Boundary (on 

 coast). 2 Jan., 1915, 



'*^ Iris ochreous ; upper mandible sooty, lower plumbeous; 

 feet slaty black."— C. B. K. 



These specimens agree M'ith the typical race from Tenas- 

 serim and the north of the Malav Peninsula, and not with 



