ON A NEW 8FECIES OF CYOBNI^S FKOM THE MOUN- 

 TAINS OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



Bv HERBERT V. ROBINSON, l.m.z.s., m.b.o.l., 



DiRixTnK OK MrsKiMs, Feiikkatkd Malay Statks. 



CVOKNIS PKNINSILAUIS, .^7^ >i<>c. 



»^IMILAR to Cyornis vatesl (Salvad.) from Maui pur and Teuasserini 

 aud Cyornis viuida (Swiuh.) from China aud Formosa, but 

 considerably smaller than either; female with the under tail coverts 

 pale chestnut buff. 



Adult Male. — Lores aud a narrow frontal band glossy black ; 

 crown, rump and a patch behind the ear coverts shining cobalt blue ; 

 mantle, back and wing coverts very dark purplish l)lue; ocular region, ear 

 coverts, chin and throat black with a purplish wash, more deiined on the 

 line separating the throat from tlie breast, which, with the rest of the 

 \nider surface, the under wing coverts, luider tail coverts and a.xillaries, 

 is chestnut ; primaries and secondaries l>lack, externally edged with 

 purplish blue on their outer webs, the inner webs of the lesser primaries 

 aud the secondaries edged with rufous l»iiff, more clearl}- defined on 

 the innermost ; tail feathers black, the outer wel )S purplish blue : iris 

 dark hazel ; bill black ; feet blackish brown. 



Total length. 5.8 in. (148 mm.) : wing, o.l in. (78 mm.) : tail. 2.95 

 in. (75 mm.) : tarsus, .69 in. (17.5 mm.) ; bill from gape, .62 in. (15 

 mm.). 



Adult Female.- Lores, facial and periocular region and throat dull 

 greyish brown, speckled with rufous and black : crown and nape grey- 

 ish, the feathers of the furnier with darker edges, presenting a scaly 

 appearance ; back, mantle and rump brownish ochraceous, more yelloAv- 

 ish on the rump ; upper tail coverts aud tail dull chestnut brown ; 

 waug coverts dull brown edged wntli ochraceous ; primaries and secon- 

 daries blackish bi-own, all except the outer primaries broadly edged 

 with yellowish brown ; edge of wing and vmder wing coverts pale yellow- 

 ish buff : axillaries greyish buff" : thighs ochraceous : breast, belly 

 and flanks greyish : the feathers of the Invast in the centre edged with 

 ochraceous buff' and with a clear whitish yellow patch in the centre of 

 the belly : under tail coverts pale cliestn\it l,»utt' ; iris hazel ; bill black ; 

 feet blackish brown. 



Total length, 5.23 in. (182 mm.j ; wing, 2.96 in. (75 mm.; ; tail, 2.65 

 in. (68 mm.) ; tarsus, .65 in. (16 mm.) ; bill from gape, .62 in. (15 

 mm.). 



Types. — Male and female, Telom, Perak-Pahang boundary, South 

 Perak, Federated Malay States, collected on 28th November, 1908, by 

 H. C. Kobinson and C. B. Kloss ; only the al>ove [>air were seen though 

 nearly a mouth was spent in tlie locality. 



