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It is unfortunate that we should have to transfer the name 

 "viridis" from one well known species of Africa and India 

 to this species but Hartert's statements cannot apparently be 

 gainsaid. It is to be hoped, however, that some enthusiastic 

 splitter will be found to discern differences between typical 

 Javan birds and others from the Malay Peninsula, Borneo 

 and Sumatra, as even the most austere lumper would view the 

 race with an indulgent eye and we should be able to return 

 to the more familiar name suma.tr anus for the local form, with 

 a clear conscience, even if it was onlv used as a subspecific 

 title. 



44. Merops philippinus, Linn. 



Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 71 ; Robinson and Kloss, p. 37 ; 

 Robinson, antea, vol. v, pp. 146. 



Merops superciliosus philippinus, Gyldenstolpe, p. no. 

 a-b. 2?. imm. Telok Wan, Terutau. i8-20th 

 December, 1916. Nos. 3656, 3674. 



'" Iris carmine, bill black, feet greyish black." 

 Other specimens in the museum from Pulau Terutau are 

 dated February and March. In the south of the Peninsula, 

 probably from about the latitude of Terutau, this Bee-eater is 

 almost certainly only a winter visitor, or at any rate is very- 

 rare at other seasons, all the specimens in the museums being 

 dated from October to March. Further north it begins to be 

 a resident form, as it was common on Koh Samui and Koh 

 Pennan, islands in the Bandon Bight, about Lat o°N., in May, 

 I9I3- 



45. Melittophagus leschenaulti swinhoei, Hume. 

 Melittophagus swinhoii, Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 55; 



Robinson and Kloss. p. 36: Robinson, antea, vol. v. p. 92; 

 Robinson, Ibis, 1915, p. 734. 



Melittophagus leschenaulti swinhoei, Gyldenstolpe, 

 p. no. 



a. 3 . Telok Wau, Terutau, 25th December, 1916. 

 [No. 3739.] 



" Iris carmine, bill and feet black." 



Common also at Langkawi, whence specimens have been 

 obtained in the months of February, April, November and 

 December. 



Immature birds have the chestnut bay of the forehead 

 mingled with greenish, the throat paler and the chestnut colour 

 of the lower throat preceding the black patch not nearly so 

 marked. 



This species has never been found further south in the 

 Peninsula than Parit, central Perak, whence we have two 

 specimens shot in September, ign. It occurs neither in 

 Borneo or Sumatra but reappears in a slightly altered form in 

 Java and Bali as the typical .V. leschenaulti (Vieill.) 



