160 MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



This species is strictly an inhabitant of evergreen forests : the 

 present bird is the nortliernmost recorded. 



257. Chotorhea chrysopogon laetus Rob. & Kloss. 



Chotorhea chrysopogon, D, p. 72 (Putaiii) ; F., p. 43 (,Trang): H., 



p. 94 (Biindoii). 

 Chotorhea chrysof)0(jon laetus^ Robinson & Kloss, Journ. Fed. 



Maliiy States Mus. viii, pt. i_i, 1918, p. 141 (Negri Sembilan). 

 Chotorhea chrysopogon chrysopogon, M., p. 429 (Peninsular Siani). 



Common in heavy jungle in Trang and Bandon, where it 

 attains its northern limit. 



There is no variation in this barbet through its range in the 

 Malay Peninsula. The mainland form is distinguished from the 

 typical Sumatran race by its deeper coloured yellow malar patches, 

 and from the Bornean Ch. chrysopocjon chrysopsis* by its larger 

 size, duller forehead without bright yellow tips to the feathers, and 

 paler ear-coverts. 



258. Chotorhea rafilesii rafflesii (Lesson). 



Bacco Rafflesii, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 137 (Sumatra). 



Chotorhea versicolor, F., p. 43 (Trang) ; Williamson, Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. Siani, ill, 1918, p. 24 iPatani). 



Megalaema rersicolor, B., p'. 74 (Coast adjacent to Junk Seylon ?j 



"Iris chestnut ; bill black, slaty at base ; feet greenish lead." 

 This Gaudy Barbet is common in the interior of Trang, but is 

 not recorded from further north than the vicinitv of Puket, whence 

 Miiller obtained one example. 



Specimens from the whole length of the Peninsula, Trang, 

 Perils, Kedah, Perak, Selangor and Pahang exhibit no differences 

 inter se ; but we have been unable to compare them with typical 

 Sumatran birds. Borneau birds, on the otlier hand, even when fully . 

 adult, have a paler blue superciliary stripe, and the quadrate yellow 

 spot on the sides of the throat paler, less orange yellow, though, 

 with Shelley, ■ we can see no differences in the extent of the red on 



* Megalaema chrysojysis, Goffin, Mus. Pays Bas, Buccones, 1863, 

 p. 15. 



A. Iliimc & Davison, Stray Keatliers, vi, 1878. E. O. Giant, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 1915. 



B. Miiller, Die Ornis der Insel Salanga, 188'2. F. llobinson and Kloss, Ibis, 1910-11. 



C. Oatcs, Birds Brit. Biirmah, Vols, i & ii, 1883. G- (iiiirdner, Jown. N. H. See. Siam, i, 1915. 



D. Bonhote. V. Z. S. 1901, Vol. i. H. Robinson, Journ. F. M. S. Museums, v, 1915. 



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