24 ON A. COLLECTION OF BIRDS 



5 specimens. 

 »Iris blood-red, round the eyes and base of bill dirty 

 chrome-green , point bluish white , only the edge and upper 

 mandible black, feet dirty green. Native nsune: Si ontong.'^ 



33. Callolophus malaccensis. 



Picus malaccensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. I. p. 241 (1790). 



Chloropicus miniatus Malh. Mon. Pic. II. p. 116, pi. 76, fig. 1, 2 



(1862). 

 Venilia malaccensis, Sclat. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 211. 

 Callolophus malaccensis, Salvad. Ucc. di Borneo, p. 50 (1874); id. Ucc. 



di Sumatra, p. 182 (1879); — Tweedd. Ibis 1877, p. 289. 



18 specimens (8 cT, 10 9)- 



»Iris blood-red, upper mandible dark brown, lower whi- 

 tish blue, feet grayish green. Native name: Si ontong meraJi.''^ 



Our seven Javan specimens {C. miniatus, Forster) , which 

 1 compared with those from other localities , seem to me 

 to be suflBciently distinct to form a really good species, as 

 they all — even young birds with much yellow in the 

 postoccipital crest — are easily distinguished by the lively 

 flame-colored occipital crest and by having the interscapu- 

 lary feathers entirely washed with red in such a manner 

 that no pure green feathers are left. Our material from 

 other localities contains 10 specimens from Borneo , 5 from 

 Banka and 8 from Sumatra, to which I can join the 18 

 above mentioned ones, collected by Dr. Klaesi. Alle these exam- 

 ples differ very strikingly by the duller red of the crown 

 and occipital crest, by having more yellow postoccipital 

 crest- feathers and the interscapulary feathers , which are 

 green and more or less, but never entirely , tinged with red. 



Count Salvadori , in his »Uccelli di Sumatra", believes that 

 the females of this species are distinguished from the ma- 

 les by the whitish speckles on chin and throat, and there- 

 fore considers one of his specimens with a uniform rusty 

 brown throat to be a male though it is labelled as a fe- 

 male. The great number of sexed specimens at my dis- 

 posal shows however to evidence , that those whitish spots 



Notes from the Ley den Museum , Vol. IX. 



