94. Mr. C. Bodeu Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



Males : W. 96, 94, 94. 



Females: W. 91*, 91, 89*. 



In adults the top of the head and hind-neck are brilliant 

 ferruginous, and the whole of the plumage is suffused with 

 a coppery sheen. 



Owing to the recent discovery by Dr. Hartert that the 

 bird so long known as M. sumatranus is the one described 

 by Linnaeus mnch earlier under the name of M. viridis, the 

 latter lias to replace M. sumatranus Raffles, and we have got 

 to employ a fresh specific name for the present bird. The 

 earliest available is Merops lamarh Cuvier, applicable to 

 examples from Ceylon and Bengal, from which the Indo- 

 Chinese form has been separated by Neumann as burmanus. 



-|-36. Merops philippinus Linn. 

 1 $ subad. Koh Lak. 

 Iris crimson ; bill and feet black. 

 T. L. 247; W. 126. 



+ 37. Nyctiornis athertoni (Jard. & Selby). 



1 (J ad. Lat Bua Kao. 



Iris brown ; bill black, base of lower mandible grey ; 

 feet olive. 



T. L. 350 ; W. 142 ; T. 129 ; B. f. g. 55. 



Caprimulgid^. 



4 38. Caprimulgus macrurus ambiguus Hartert. 



Ilartert, Ibis, 1896, p. 373. 



1 ? ad. Koh Lak. 



T. L. 277 ; W. 189. 



In his " Synopsis of the Races of the Long-tailed Goat- 

 sucker '' (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vol. xlviii. 1915, pp. 589-599) 

 Oberholser has resuscitated the name bimaculatus applied by 

 Peale ('U.S. Exploring Expedition,' vol. viii.. Mammals and 

 Birds, p. 170) to a Malayan Nightjar, and has relegated 

 ambiguus Hartert to its synonymy. According to him, the 

 type of C. m. bimaculatus came from the Settlement of 

 Malacca, and all Peninsular and more northern birds agree 



* Subadult. 



