26 ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 



4 specimens (1 ^f, 3 9)- 



»Iris reddish browu, bill black, feet blackish gray. Native 

 name: Si ontongy 



As Mr. Hargitt, and already before him Mr. F. Nichol- 

 son (On some Birds from W. Java, Ibis 1879, p'. 164), 

 pointed out, this species is really distinct from the Javan 

 M. tristis (Horsf.) which latter is easily distinguished by 

 its entirely black breast and abdomen. A comparison of 

 our material in the Leyden Museum — 3 specimens {M. 

 tristis) from Java , 1 1 from Borneo , 2 from Banka and 

 9 from Sumatra — has fully confirmed this opinion. 



88. Micr opt emus h r achyurus. 



Picus hrachyurus, Vieill. N. Diet. XXVI. p. 103 (1818); — Snelle- 

 man, Sum. Exp. Vogels, p. 38 (1884). 



Picus badius, Raffl. t. c. p. 289. 



Micropternus hadius , Reichb. Handb. Picinae, p. 403, pi. 658, fig. 

 4374; — Tweedd. Ibis 1877, p. 289; — Salvad. Ucc. di Su- 

 matra, p. 184 (1879); — Nicholson, Ibis 1882, p. 55. 



Micropternus hrachyurus, Hargitt, Ibis 1885, p. 10. 



7 specimens (6 cT, 1 9)« 

 »Iris reddish brown, bill black, feet blackish brown. Na- 

 tive name: Si ontongT 



39. Chry soeoccy X maculatus. 



Trogon maculatus, Gm. S. N. I. p. 404. 

 Chrysococcyx sniaragdinus , Blyth, J. A. S. B. 1846, p. 53. 

 Chrysococcyx Hodgsoni, Moore, Cat. Mus. E. I. Comp. II. p. 705 (1858). 

 Cuculus Hodgsoni, Schl. Mus. P.-B., Cuculi, p. 32 (1864). 

 Laniprococcyx maculatus. Walden, Ibis 1869, pp. 334, 338. 



2 specimens (cT cT). 



» Iris chocolate-brown , bill black at tip , rest orange- 

 yellow, feet dark brown. Native name:?" 



The beautiful emerald-green color on upper surface, 

 throat and chest, and the ditto cross-bars on the rest of the 

 lower surface would not allow to confound these specimens 

 with such of any other species. One of them has assumed the 

 fully developed plumage of the adult , the second , in not less 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseum, Vol. IX. 



