1Q17.] H. C. Robinson: Birds from Pulau Langhawi. 140 



There is extremely little local variation in this species 

 throughout its range and a series from Borneo differs in no 

 way from a large number from the Malay Peninsula. Individ- 

 ual variation is considerable, the rufous huff of the belly and 

 flanks varying greatly in intensity. It is onl) very old birds 

 indeed that entirely lose the black, crescentic edgings to the 

 feathers of the sides of the breast indicative of immaturity. 



A common rice-field bird wherever it occurs, though also 

 found on the higher reaches of the rivers in deep jungle. 

 Occasionally also on small islands in the Straits i>f Malacca 

 during the winter months, evidently on migration. 



38. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.). 



Shtirpt. tout. cit. p. 27.5, PI. VII, tig. 3; Robinson, Ibis 

 iqi5, p. 731. 



Halcyon armstrongi, Sharpe : Robinson and Kloss, p. 

 34; Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 145: vol. VII, p. 71. 



Halcyon chloris armstrongi, Gyldenstolpe, p. 117. 



a-b. <?,?. Burau, N. W. Langkawi. 13-i.pth 



December, 1916. Nos. 3627. 3640. 

 c. <?. Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S. W. Siam. 

 12th January 191 7. No. 3896. 

 "■ Iris black, upper mandible white, basal two-thirds, 

 lower mandible pinkish white, feet grey." 



There is little to add to what has already been written on 

 the variability of the Indo-Malayan races of blue-and-white 

 Kingfisher. The three specimens listed above differ consider- 

 ably, one having the ear-coverts almost black, a greenish black 

 band round the nape continuous with them, while in the other 

 the ear-coverts are much more bluish green and the nuchal 

 collar is very narrow and barely visible. The flanks are pure 

 white with no trace of the buffy tint present in the bright blue 

 birds characterised as //. humii. Sharpe. The mantle in all 

 is greenish blue but the wings and wing coverts are pure blue. 

 Wing 106, 102, 101 mm. 



39. PVROTKOGON ORESKIOS UN1FORMIS, Sltbsp. nov. 



Harpactes <>re-kins (Temm.) ; O^ilvie Grant. Cut. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. XVII, p. 494 (1892). 



Pyrotrogon orescius, Robinson and Kloss. p. 39 ; 

 Robinson, Ibis. 1915. p. 736, Gyldenstolpe, p. 105. 



a-b. 2.1. Burau, N.W. Langkawi. 13th December, 



1916. Nos. 3628, 9. 

 c-i. 3 £, 1 9. Telok Wan. Terutau. 25-27th 



December, 1916. Nos. 3736, 3740, 3755. 6. 

 " Iris grey, bill, feet and orbits smalt, culmen black." 



Dimensions of four males; TL. 274-209; W, 124 128; 

 T. 150-174; B. 23.5-24; TS, 135-M mm - 



Sept., 1917. S 



