478 ON A COLLECTIOX OF BIEDS FEOM THE [1877. 



tawny white or pure white. The feathers of the fore neck have darker brown drops, which 

 occupy the terminal part of each plume, these drops being set between a rufo-fulvous and a white 

 ground. The under wing-coverts are banded like the breast. The upper plumage is dark brown, 

 the terminations of the feathers being darkest. The head and crest are black, the latter 

 measuring about two and a quarter inches. The face is grey. The throat is white, with a central 

 and two lateral dark brown streaks. Two broad dark brown bands traverse the middle rectrices, 

 the latter being terminal. A third narrower band near the base of the tail is of a paler shade of 

 brown. The intervening spaces are of a dirty yellowish white, much mottled with earthy brown. 

 Ibis, 1877, The plumage of the under surface very closely resembles that of P. celebensis in its markings ; 



P' " but the colouring differs in being dark brown, and the chest is not tawny rufous. 



5. NiNOX SCUTULATA. 



Strix scutulata. Raffles, t. c. p. 280, "Sumatra" (1821). 



Mr. Buxton obtained two adult examples of this long-wished-for species at Tarahan, S.E. 

 Sumatra. They are absolutely identical with Malaccan individuals in mus. nostr. [" Iris yellow ; 

 bill dark slate, nearly black." — Buxton^ 



6. Khopodytes ertthrognathus. 



Cuculus melanognathus, Horsf. apud Raffles, t. c. p. 287, " Sumatra." 

 Phoenicophaus erythrognatlms, Hartl. Verz. Mus. Brem. p. 95, " Sumatra " (1844). 



Malaccan and Bornean examples do not differ from typical specimens. 



7. RnOPODYTES diardi. 



Melias diardi. Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 132, "Java" (1831). 

 Malaccan individuals do not differ from Sumatran. 



8. Zaxclostomus jav.\nicus. 



PhcenicopJiaus javanicus, Horsf. t. c. p. 178, "Java" (1820); Zool. Res. Java, t. 5. 

 Typical specimens not separable from Sumatran and Malaccan. 



9. Riiinortha chloroph^a. 



Cuculus chlorophceus. Raffles, t. c. p. 288, 6 , "Sumatra" (1821). 



Phcmicophceus caniceps, Vigors, App. Mem. Raffles, p. 671, ? , " Sumatra " (1830). 



Malaccan and Bornean examples do not differ from Sumatran. 



10. SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS. 



Cuculus lugubris, Horsf. t. c. p. 175, "Java" (1820); Zool. Res. Java, t. 58. 

 Identical with typical specimens. 



11. Chrysococctx xantiiorhynchus. 



Cuculus xanthorhynchus, Horsf t. c. p. 179, "Java" (1820); Zool. Res. Java, t. 59. 

 Undistinguishable from typical specimens. 



