IV. ON TWO NEW BIRDS FROM THE SOUTHERN 

 PORTION OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



By Herblrt C. Robinson, M.B.O.U. and 

 C. BoDEN Kloss, M.B.O.U. 



Ill 1911 {Ibis, p. 79) we recorded the dull coloured little 

 Flower Pecker, Piprisoma niodestiim (Hume), from Trang in 

 the north of the Malay Peninsula, noting this locality as the 

 most southerly hitherto recorded and, somewhat incautiously 

 perhaps, stating that it certainly does not occur in that portion 

 of the Malay Peninsula under British influence. 



In this, however, we were in error, as amongst a collection 

 obtained by the Museum collectors in January, 1913, at Bukit 

 Tangga in Negri Sembilan, on a pass on the main Peninsular 

 divide at about 1,500 ft. altitude occur four specimens of what 

 are certainly this species. They, however, present sufficient 

 differences from two specimens from Trang to merit 

 separation as — 



PiPRISOMA MODESTUM subsp. REMOTUM, subsp. HOV. 



Differing from the typical race in having the whole of 

 the upper surface, sides of the head and outer aspect of the 

 wings duller and darker grey, with less tinge of olive green. 

 White on outer tail feathers perhaps rather less extensive, but 

 this character not very marked. Total length, 3.8; wing, 

 2.37; tail, 1.4; bill from gape, 0.43 inches. 



Type — Adult male, Bukit Tangga, Negri Sembilan, 1,500', 

 27th January, 1914 {nat. coll.) F. M. S. Mus. No. 1/14. Two 

 other males and a female from the same locality examined. 



Remarks : Bukit Tangga is nearly 400 miles distant from 

 the nearest locality from which P. modestuni has been obtained, 

 otherwise we should have hesitated to describe this form on 

 distinctions which are somewhat fine, though quite obvious in 

 the four specimens before us. 



Rhinomyias tardus, sp. nov. 



In September 1913 the Museum collectors obtained on 

 Bukit Tampin, a hill in Negri Sembilan near the Malacca 

 boundary rising to 2,500 ft., two examples of an unknown species 

 of Rhinomyias, and in the same month of the present year they 

 collected a third specimen at Genting Bidai, 2,300 ft., a pass 

 in the main range between Selangor and Pahang. 



This species, which may be known as Rhinomyias tardus, 

 sp. nov. differs from R. pectoralis, the only other species 

 inhabiting the Malay Peninsuln, in being more olivaceous 

 throughout, the tail and edges of the wing feathers alone 



