147 



PICTDiE. 

 40. CHRYSOCOLAPTES ttUTTICRISTATUS. 



Chrysocolaptes giitticristatup: (Tick.) ; Hargitt, torn, cit., p. 448 ; 

 Robinson and Kloss. 



A male from Koh Samui. Fairly common in the interior of the 

 islands especially on the pmang palms (Ai^eca catechu). 



41. lYXGIPICUS CANICAPILLUS. 



lyngipicus canicapillus (Blyth) ; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Hrit. Mus., 

 xviii, p. 322 (1890) ; Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 46 ; Robinson, 

 Joui-n. Fed. Malay States Mus., v, p. 20 (1913). 



lyngipicus pumilns, Hargitt, tom. cit., p. 321. 



Of two males obtained on Koh Samui in May, one has tlie central 

 rectrices entirely uniform, while the other has them spotted on both 

 webs. The wing of both specimens is about 3.2 in. (80 mm.). I 

 think therefore that I. pumihis whose range is overlapped both north 

 and south by I. canicapillus has no claim even to sub-specific 

 distinction. 



PITTID^. 

 12. PITTA CYANOPTERA. 



antea, p. 97. 



One female from Koh Samui. 



" Iris dark hazel, bill black, feet flesh." 



MUSCICAPID^. 

 «. CYORNIS SrMATRENSIS. 



Siphia sumatrensis, Sharpe, tom. cit., p. 451. 



Cyornis sumatrensis, Hartert, Nov. Zool., ix, p. 550 (1902) ; 

 Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 51. 



After a good deal of hesitation I have referred a large number of 

 specimens obtained in both islands to this race, which does not seem 

 veiy markedly differentiated from C. tickeUix of Peninsular India 

 and Burma, from which it is distinguished only by its slightly smaller 

 size, and whiter abdomen, sharply defined from the rufous orange of 

 the breast. 



" Female, iris dark hazel, bill black, feet bluish flesh." 



Mr. Seimund obtained a nest on Koh Peiman on May 25th and 

 shot the parent bird. The nest was placed in a crevice in a rock 

 about six feet off the ground and is of the usual flycatcher type, 

 a hemispherical cup about four inches in external and two in internal 

 diameter, made of dead leaves and fragments of fern and lined 

 with tendrils. The eggs were three in number and hard .set. In 

 shape they are blunt ovals and the .shell is almost without gloss. 

 The ground colour is olive grey clouded with mottlings of reddish 

 brown which in two eggs is fairly evenly distributed over the shell 

 and in third forms a zone at the lai'ger end. The measurements are 

 A 172 X 13.6 ; B 178 x 13.3 ; C 178 x 13.5 mm. 



Oct., 1914. 



