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Pitta bangJcana, Schl. Vog. Ned. Ind. Pitta, p. 8 , pi. 2, f. 5(1863); 

 id. Mu3. P.-B., Pitta, p. 3 (1863). 



2 specimens. 



»lris Van Dijk-brown , bill black, feet flesh-color. Na- 

 tive name: Si Pindjury 



As far as I know this is the first time that this species 

 is recorded from Sumatra. 



132. Myiophoneus flavirostris. 



Ttirdus jlavirostris , Horsf. t. c. p. 149. 



Myiophoneus metaWcus , Temm. P. C. II. 170 (1823). 



Myiophoneus Jlavirostris , Gray , Gen. Birds , I.p. 214 (1846) ; — Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. VII. p. 7 (1883). 



Myiophoneus dicrorhynchus , Salvad. Ucc. di Sumatra, p. 227(1879); 

 — Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 16; — Nicholson, Ibis 1883, 

 p. 247; — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. Vol. VII. p. 10 (1883). 



2 specimens (1 nearly adult, unsexed, 1 jun. 9)« 

 »Iris dark brown, bill in the unsexed specimen orange- 

 yellow, ridge black, in the younger female entirely black, 

 feet in both specimens black. Native name: Tiong ajer." 



Count Salvadori (1. c.) considers the Sumatran specimens 

 to be distinct from the Javan by the culminal part of the 

 bill being black instead of yellow, and this opinion is 

 shared by Mr. Sharpe , Mr. Ramsay and Mr. Nicholson in 

 their above mentioned publications. If this character would 

 really be sufficient to base a new species upon, the above 

 mentioned unsexed specimen would belong to M. dicro- 

 rJiyncJms and not to jlavirostris. I can however not agree with 

 the learned author, as amongst the three Javan specimens 

 in the Leyden Museum , one of which is figured in the 

 PI. Col. 170, have all the culmen more or less black, 

 though not as largely as the Sumatran specimen. This latter 

 has moreover the purplish white tips to the median wing- 

 coverts as strongly developed as is the case with the spe- 

 cimens from Java. Only the metallic edgings to the feathers 

 are less strongly pronounced, which peculiarity might be 

 attributed to its not fully adult stage of plumage. 



Notes from the Leyden M!useum, Vol. IX. 



