1916.] H. C. Robinson & C. B. Kloss : Kedah Peak. 239 



Precisely agreeing with southern specimens and showing 

 no approach to the northern form, P. g. burinanica, Sharpe. 



Halcyon pileata (Bodd.). 



a. I Male. Gurun Kedah, 50ft. 14th December, 1915. 

 [No. 2,256.] 



SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS (Horsf.) 



a. I Male. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. 13th December, 1915. 

 [No. 2,254.] 



" Iris dark brown, bill, feet brownish black." [H.C.R. 

 & C.B.K.] 



HiEROCOCCYX NANUS, Hume. 



Hierococcyx nanus, Hume; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Miis. 

 XXX, p. 238 (1892); Robinson & Kloss, Joiirn, Fed. Malay 

 States Mus. v, p. 172 (19 15). 



a. I Male. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. December nth, 1915. 

 [No. 2,224.] 



" Iris very dark brown, bill greenish slate, base of upper 

 mandible black, orbital skin and gape pale chrome, feet 

 yellow, claws pale wax yellow. [H.C.R. & C.B.K.] 



This specimen agrees well with two others in the Museums, 

 one from the Krau River, Pahang, collected on 31st October, 

 1913 and another from Ginting Bidei, Selangor-Paliang 

 border, 2,300 ft., obtained on September 30th 1914. 



Measurements of the above bird taken in the flesh. 

 Total length 281; wing 150; tail, 158; tarsus. 20; bill from 

 gape, 30 mm. 



Wing of the Krau River Bird, 146 mm. Of the Ginting 

 Bidei one, 147 mm. 



This species is extremely rare in the Malay Peninsula 

 proper and the above tliree specimens are the only ones from 

 our area of which we have any record, with the exception of 

 the birds from Salanga or Junk Zeylon, recorded by Muller 

 (Journ. fur. Orn. 1882, p. 405). It is probably commoner in 

 Tenasserim. 



Rhopodytes diardi (Less.) 



a. I Male. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. 13th December, 1915. 

 [No. 2,241.] 



" Iris pale blue, orbital skin crimson lake, feet dark gree- 

 nish slate, bill sea green, area of nostrils bluish." [H.C.R & 

 C.B.K.] 



Chotorhea versicolor (Raffles). 



a—b. 2 Females. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. 12th December, 

 1915. [Nos. 2,227, 2,233.] 



" Iris chestnut, bill black, slaty at base, feet greenish 

 lead." [H.C.R. & C.B.K.] 



