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not recorded from Sumatra since Raffles' time. At present 

 it is represented in our Museum by specimens collected by 

 the Dutch Sumatra Expedition and by Dr. Klaesi in the 

 Highlands of Padang, and by Dr. Hagen in Deli (East 

 coast of Sumatra). 



Having looked through our series of nearly 100 speci- 

 mens of this species, from the most different localities, I 

 fully adhere to the opinion of the late Prof. Schlegel , that 

 the specimens of the Indian , Indo-Malayan and Austra- 

 lian region must be considered as belonging to one and 

 the same species and cannot be separated into E. orientalis 

 and pacificus , as Count Salvadori and others propose to do. 



76. Psarisomus psittacinus. 



Eurylaimus psittacinus. Mull. Tijdschr. Nat. Gesch. en Phys. II. 

 p. 349, pi. V, f. 6 (1835); — Temm. P. C. III. 297 (1836). 

 Psarisomus 'psittacinus, Salvad. Ucc. di Sumatra, p. 198 (1879). 



2 specimens (cT and 9)- 



»Iris dirty yellosv ((ƒ), dirty rusty red (9); bill and feet 

 greenish blue. Native name: Pipi lurejany 



The female is similar in color to the male. Certainly 

 the female specimen mentioned by Salvadori (1. c.) with 

 the head green instead of black and the throat green in- 

 stead of yellow must be an immature bird. One of our 

 Museum specimens (Q juu.) agrees exactly with the men- 

 tioned specimen and has not only the outer web of the 

 two outermost pairs of tail-feathers entirely green, but 

 even the inner tail-feathers are strongly tinged with green, 

 while two newly developed ones have the outer web and 

 a portion of the inner entirely blue. Count Salvadori ob- 

 served that specimens from Nepal, (P. JDalhousiae) have 

 the tail-feathers strongly tinged with green, and that the 

 tail is constantly shorter. I have found the same in our 

 two specimens from Nepal , and this being the only distin- 

 guishing characters of the Nepal birds , it will be advisable 

 to keep both species as yet united under the name of P. 

 psittacinus. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. IX. 



