166 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII, 



These specimens have the wing. 84.5 mm. and I do not 

 see how they are to be separated from typical specimens from 

 the Philippines, with which they agree in size. In any event 

 however there is a name available for the continental bird, 

 viz. Buccii indicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i., p. 205 11790) which must 

 be applied to Malayan birds, although Parrot has separated the 

 Sumatran bird on the strength of a slightly smaller size which 

 is not altogether bome out by our large series from West 

 Sumatra and on certain differences in colour, some of which 

 we can confirm, the most noticeable being the absence of the 

 conspicuous orange yellow collar beneath the scarlet pectoral 

 patch, which is very noticeable in all the Malayan but barely 

 indicated in any Sumatran specimens, which in addition have 

 the green centres to the feathers of the abdomen and flanks 

 more restricted and the margins of a creamy rather than a 

 sulphury yellow. Parrot's name for this form Megalaema 

 haemacephala delicti, (Ablnindl. der Konigl. Bayer. Akad. der. 

 Wissensch. (II) xxiv. Bd. 1, p. i6q (19071 is however ante- 

 dated by Bucco rafflesius Boie, Brief. Ost. Ind. No. 15 (1832), 

 of which our Korinchi and Padang coast birds may be 

 regarded as topotypes. 



65. Hirundo bAdia, Cass. 



Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 166: Robinson and KIoss. p. 50; 

 Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 98. 



a. Telok Wan, Terutau, 23rd December, 1916. 

 No. 3721. 

 " Iris and bill dark, feet dark maroon brown." 

 Very common indeed both on Langkawi and Terutau and 

 probably all over the Peninsula where there are precipitous 

 limestone hills. Resident throughout the year and not known 

 outside the limits of the Peninsula. A closely allied, but paler 

 and considerably smaller form, H. hyperyfhra, Layard, is 

 resident in Ceylon. 



66. Hirundo javanica, Sparrm. 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. p. 142 (1885) ; Robinson 

 and Kloss, p. 50. 



a. Koh Muk (Pulau Muntia) Trang, S.W. Siam, 

 5th January, 1917. No. 3854. 

 " Iris dark, bill and feet black." 

 Found breeding on the cliffs of Koh Muk together with 

 Cypselus subfurcatus and Collocalia sp. Also common on Pulau 

 Terutau, P. Langkawi and P. Tengah between Langkawi and 

 P. Langkawi. 



Common and resident all along the coasts of the Malay 

 Peninsula, according to Hume and Davison rare in Tenasserim 

 but very common in Southern Malava. Curiously enough not 

 hitherto recorded from Siam proper, though it is mentioned 

 in a List of the Birds of Lower Cochin China by Tirant. Occurs 

 also in the Philippines. 



