26 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds from the 



Coll.j, a skin from Native Sikkim (Mandelli Coll.), and one 

 from Malacca registered as spm. b o£ Baza magnirostris, 

 regarding which there was originally some confusion, 

 cleared up by Dr. Sharpe ('Ibis/ 1893, p. 555). There 

 is also an adult stuffed specimen, from Larut, Perak, in the 

 Selangor Museum. It is obvious that these eleven specimens 

 all belong to one species, though, as is almost invariably 

 the case, the Sikkim bird is somewhat larger than those 

 from the Malay Peninsula and from Sumatra. 



Of the nine skins now before us, five are sexed as male by 

 the collectors, of which one is evidently immature, while four 

 are marked female, of which one may be considered as a 

 young bird. 



It may be of interest to describe the plumages of these nine 

 birds in some detail, the present series being larger than any 

 hitherto got together. 



a. Fully adult male. Sungei Kilim, Pulau Langkawi, 

 March 22nd, 1909. 



Crown and crest uniform black-grey on the lores, the 

 crest slightly tipped with white; sides of the face grey, the 

 feathers with narrow rufous edges; sides of the throat, 

 feathers above the eye, and a nuchal collar rufous buif, the 

 latter with broad black centres to the feathers ; a median 

 gular stripe black, extreme point of the chin grey ; upper 

 breast dull brown, many of the feathers with darker bases 

 and shaft-stripes. Remainder of the under surface, including 

 the under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries, 

 evenly barred with white and liver-brown, the latter shading 

 into blackish on the flanks. Mantle and shoulders blackish 

 brown, glossed with purplish, rest of the wing-covcrts paler 

 brown ; flight-feathers regularly barred with black and brown 

 on their external, with black and white on their internal 

 aspect. Tail with four dark and four light bars and a narrow 

 pale terminal tip. 



Wing 12-8 ; tail 9*1 ; tarsus TGa ; bill from gape 1-3 ; 

 crest 2'3 inches. 



h, c. Somewhat less adult males than " aJ" 



Chong, Interior of Trang, North Malay Peninsula, 17th 

 and 19th December, 1909. 



