172 



vermiculations on the wing coverts. It can liardlj- be regarded as 

 a sub-species of P. chivauceli as that species occurs throughout the 

 districcs occupied by the present form. 



Moulton in Jo7(rn. Straits Branch Boy. Asiat. Soc. No. 67, p.p. 151 

 (1914) regards Pyrotrogon vidua (Ogilvie Gi'ant) as a very doubtful 

 sub-species of this bird which is also recorded from Central 

 Borneo by Buttikofer. The birds described by Grant as Harpactes 

 vidua in Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. XVII, p. 501 (1892) came from 

 Mounts Kinabalu and Dulit in N. W. Borneo. 



CUCULID^. 

 16. HIEROCOCCYX NANUS, HuiiE. 



Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, p. 238 (1892). 



A nearly adult male agrees well with Hume and Shelley's descrip- 

 tion of this rare cuckoo, which is new to the Federated Malay States 

 Museums. Wing, 5.6 ; tail, 5.5 in. 



17. CACOMANTIS MERULINUS (Scop.). 



Kloss, p. 155. 



1 ?. 



18. UROCOCCYX ERYTHROGNATHUS (Haetl.). 

 KIOSR, p. 152. 



1 ?. 



CAPITONIDyE. 

 19. CHOTORHEA MYSTACOPHANES (Temm.). 

 Kloss, p. 155. 



1 <J. 



PICID^. 



20. PYRRHOPICrS PORPHYROMELAS (Boie). 



1 <?, 1 ?. 



21. MICROPTERNUS BBACHYURUS (Vieill.). 



Kloss, p. 156. 



1 ?. 



22. CHRYSOPHLEGMA HUMII, Hargitt. 



Kloss, p. 156. 



2 cJ. 



23. SASIA EVERETTI, Hakgitt. 



Kloss, p. 157. 



EUEYL^MTD^. 

 24. CALYPTOMENA VIRIDIS, Raffles. 

 Kloss, p. 157. 



1 S. 



PITTID^. 



25. PITTA CERL'LEA, Raffles. 



1 c?. 



This fine species, though generally distributed throughout the 

 length of the Peninsula, is everywhere rare ; it is generally met with 

 in low an i swampy country. 



