i-|N Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII. 



Entomothera coromanda coromanda, Oberholser, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mas. 48, p. 642 (1915). 



Halcyon coromanda coromanda, Gyldcnstolpe, p. 116. 

 a-b. 1 ? ad. Kuah, Pulau Langkawi. 28th April. 



t9i5- 

 c d. & v nd. Sungei Udang, Pulan Terutau. 

 February. March, 1909. 



The two males have the wing, 105, no mm. and the 

 females 108, in and are slightly darker than two females 

 from Trang and Selangor which have the wings 116 and 113 

 mm. A slightly immature male shot in November on Pulau 

 Jemor, Aroa Ids. in the middle of the Straits of Malacca has 

 the wing 113 mm. 



Oberholser (loc. cit. p. 642) considers the species as 

 "strictly resident" but it is probable that like many other 

 purely intertropical species it performs migrations of limited 

 range. I am therefore inclined to doubt the validity of the 

 race established for Sumatra (East and West), and Banka, E. 

 coromanda neophora, Oberholser {loc. cit. p. 646). So far as I 

 am able to judge from an adult male shot on gt^ October, 

 1915, at Sungei Pelandok, Paku Seribas. S. W. Sarawak, the 

 Bornean race. H. c. minor iTemm. and Schleg.) is quite 

 separable from the typical form by its rich, darker colouration, 

 the upper surface more strongly washed with lilac, and 

 slightly smaller size. I have not as yet been able to examine 

 good specimens from Singapore Island, which is stated by 

 Oberholser to be inhabited by this form. 



The species occurs also on Tioman but specimens from 

 that island are too immature to identifv subspecifically with 

 any certainty. 



37. Halcyon pileata (Bodd.) 



Sharpe. torn. cit. p. 229; Robinson and Kloss. p. 31; 

 Robinson, Ibis. IQT5. p. 732: Gyldenstolpe, p. 116. 



a-c. $,2 $ Pulau Langkawi, 27th November. 1907. 

 [F.M.S. Mus. 2897-9/07.] 



d. 1. Pulau Langkawi, 10th Februarv, 1909, 



[F.M.S. Mus. 485/09.] 



e. 1 . Telok Apau, Pulau Langkawi, 15th Decem- 



ber, 1912. 

 /. I . Pulau Dayang Bunting. Langkawi. 8th 

 December 1916. [No. 3603.] 



g. ?. Telok Wau, Terutau. 29th December, 1916. 

 [No. 3787O 

 " Iris dark, bill vermilion, darker at base, tarsi and 

 toes vermilion, the latter darker." 



