FROM WESTKRN SUMATRA. 41 



Native name: ))Lajang gedang", like in the preceding 

 species, and killed together with the latter at Loeboe 

 Gedang, 18 Febr. 1885. 



Before describing the two specimens as new, I have much 

 hesitated , thinking that they afterwards might turn out to 

 be the young of the first year of H. nudipes on their first 

 winter migration , and that the gray color on throat and 

 bases to the feathers of the hind neck and on the inner 

 web of the innermost secondaries would become pure white 

 in the second year. On the other hand , however , the fine 

 metallic gloss on the dark upper parts , so characteristical 

 in adult birds , in connection with the considerably smaller 

 size , induced me to consider the birds specifically distinct. 

 1 can really hardly think that migrating young birds , when 

 once arrived in Sumatra would still have to grow in or- 

 der to reach th^ size of H. nudwcs. 



I have compared this species with H. nudipes which I 

 consider to be sufficiently distinct from the Australian H. 

 caudacutus by the want of the white or grayish white lo- 

 ral spot, which latter is always found in Australian spe- 

 cimens. As to the Indian form, so often — and of late by 

 Mr. Dresser in his Birds of Europe — identified with the 

 Australian , I cannot believe that any quite authentical 

 specimen will have the white loral spot , and therefore much 

 agree with Mr. A. Hume, who decidedly and repeatedly 

 has defended the same opinion. (See Stray Feathers, IX, 

 pp. 230, 286). 



75. Eurystomus orientalis. 



Coracias orientalis, L. S. N. I. p. 159 (1766); — Raffl. t. c. p. 302. 

 Eurystomus orientalis, Schl. Mu'^. P.-B., Coraces, p. 139 (1867); — 



Salvad. Ucc. cli Borneo, p. 105 (1874); — Snelleman , Sum. 



Exp. Vogels, p. 37 (1884). 



10 specimens (5 cf, 5 9)' 

 »Iris chocolate-brown, bill and feet coral-red. Native 

 name: Tionrj lampej." 



Peculiarly enough this species is. except by Snelleman , 



Notes from the Leyden Museum , Vol. IX. 



