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115. DlCAEUM CRUENTATA tGNITA (Begbie). 



Dicaeum cmentatum, Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 15: Robinson 

 and Kloss, p. 78. 



a. < . Telok Wau. Terutau, 23rd-2gth December 

 [916. [Nos. 3714-7. 3737, 3772, 3790]. 

 " Iris dark hazel, bill and feet black, basal half of bill 

 slaty." 



In view of Gyldenstolpe's identification of specimens from 

 Koh Lak, Siamese Malaya, with the reputed Chinese and 

 Hainan form, D. c. coccinea, (Scop)., I have again gone 

 through very carefully the very large series of this species in 

 the F.M.S. Museums, in the light of Hartert's remarks on the 

 subject, Nov. Zool. xvii, p. 243 (1910). 



Begbie's specimens came from somewhere near Kessang 

 in the territory of Malacca, and it is therefore hardly legitimate 

 to regard specimens from Terutau, 400 miles to the north, as 

 strictly representative of his Nectarinui ignita. Our speci- 

 mens are by no means uniform and while the majority have 

 the outer aspect of the wing glossy purplish one or two have 

 the lesser wing coverts and scapulars with a distinct oily green 

 gloss without purplish. Specimens from Trang are the same 

 but those from Koh Pennan and Koh Samui have but little 

 purple tinge and must therefore be regarded asD. c. coccinea if 

 we are to recognise that form. In addition these specimens 

 have the red parts of the plumage more vermilion and less 

 scarlet, but this may be due either to age of the bird or of the 

 feathers. The females are certainly not more rusty orange 

 above as Hartert says is the case with Hainan specimens. 

 Hartert has not denned the limits of his three forms, at least so 

 far as the typical D. c. crucntata is concerned and it would 

 appear that they all converge somewhere in the region of 

 Southern ami Western Siam. 



116. Dicaeum trigonostigma (Scop.). 



Sharpe, tout. tit. p. 38; Robinson and Kloss, p. 78: 

 Robinson, antea, vol. v, p. no (1915). 



a-f. 4 <?,2?. Telok Wau, Terutau. 17th.23.-d 

 December. Nos. 3647-8, 3684-5, 3718-9. 

 " Iris dark, bill plumbeous green, feet slate." 

 Common nearly everywhere in the Peninsula. 



117. Dicaeum chrvsorkhoeum, Temm. 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mns. x. p. 44 (1885); Robinson 

 and Kloss, p. 78 : Robinson, Ibis, 1915, p. 756 ; Gyldenstolpe, p. 36. 



a. Ii. 2 <?. Telok Wau, Terutau. 2ist-28th 

 December 1916. Nos. 3707, 3776. 

 Rather rare in the north of the Peninsula; we have 

 only one specimen from Trang. 



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