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(^ALORNIS CHALYBKA (Horsf.). 



Calovnis clmlybea (Horsf.); Shnrpe, Gat. Birds Brit. Mns., xiii., 

 p. 543 (189G). 



Specimens from the outlying island of Pulau Aor, in the South 

 China Sea, seem at first sight to be separable by their coarser more 

 robust bills, tliough the other dimensions do not differ appreciably. 

 In colour the island birds are not distinguishable from those 

 found on the mainland. Salvadoi'i has separated the bird from Nias 

 under the name C. aUirostris, mainly on account of the larger bill 

 and darker colouratioti, both characters that seem very frequently 

 developed in island races of widely distributed birds. 

 t'UALCO.STETHA I'ECTORAIJS (Tkmm ). 



Chalcostetha insignis (Temm.) ; Gadow, Cat. Bmb Brit. Miis., 

 ix., p. 12 (1884). 



The Purple- breasted Sun-bird was but poorly represented in our 

 collection by three skins from Penang. In June, 1912, however, we 

 obtained a series from the island of Sri Buat, off the Pahang Coast, on 

 the east side of the Peninsula. Like the majority of the local Sun- 

 birds (excluding the Spider hunters) this species only occurs in the 

 littoral belt and is rarely, if ever, found far inland. Formerly, accor- 

 ding to Mr. C. B. Kloss, it was common at Ta7ijong Katong, in Singapore 

 Island, but is seldom seen there now. Mr. Seimund found it common 

 at Pulau Pintu Gedong, Klang Straits, Selangor, in September and 

 Octolier, 1912. It is, therefore, probably largely confined to mangroves. 

 PIPRISO^IA EVERETTl (Sharpe). 



Prionochilus everetti, Sharpe, Ibi.% 1877, p. 16 ; id. P.Z.S. 1879, 

 p. 343, pi. XXX, fig. 1 ; Id. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x., p. 76 (1885). 



I have referred to this species with some hesitation a single male 

 specimen obtained at Rawang, Selangor, in July, 1912. It differs from 

 the type desci-iption and the figure as cited above in being a much 

 darker tint above, gi-eyish not brown, and in having the sides darker 

 grey, not nearly uniform with the middle of the belly as shown in the 

 figure. The habitat of P. everetti is given as Western Borneo and 

 the island of Labuan but in the absence of a series and diiect com- 

 parison with the type the differences are not sufficient to justify me 

 in describing the bird before me as a new species. 



The present specimen was shot while feeding on a mistletoe on the 

 boughs of a lofty tree in swampy jungle. 



PARUS CINEREUS, Vieill. 



Parus cinereus; Gadov-, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., viii,. p. 16 (1883). 



Parus atriceps, Ogilvie Grant, Fascic. Malay Zool., iii., p. 77 (1905). 



This tit has not hitherto been recorded from the southern part of the 

 Malay Peninsula though it was met with by myself on the coast of Patani, 

 and l)y Dr. Abbott on the coast of Trang, about 1 50 miles north of Penang. 

 In September and November, 1912, Mr. Seimund, however, found it 

 abundant among the mangroves on Pulau Pintu Gedong, at the entrance 

 to Klang Straits, Selangor coast, together with Zosterops aureiventer. 



