Northern Portion of the Malay Peninsula. 35 



Halcyon armstrongi was the first name published and there- 

 fore the one that is applicable, though it was only regarded 

 by Dr. Sharpe as a subspecies of H. chloris, while to H. humii 

 he accorded full specific rank. 



T^84. Halcyon concretus. 



Halcyon concretus (Temm.) ; Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 285. 



Generally distributed throughout the Peninsula, including 

 Singapore, but confined to deep jungle, where it is frequently 

 — and, indeed, generally — found far from water, like Car- 

 cineutes pidchellus. 



Upupid^. 

 f- 85. Upupa indica. 



Upupa indica Reichenb. ; Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 xvi. p. 10 (1892). 



Very common indeed in the interior of Trang in open 

 sandy plains, this locality being the soutliernmost limit of 

 the species on the west coast of the Peninsula. On the east 

 side it was met with by Robinson and Annandale as far south 

 as Patani in similar situations. 



BUCEROTID.E. 

 V 86. DiCHOCEROS BICORNIS. 



Dichoceros bicornis (Linn.) ; Grant, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xvii. p. 355 ; Robinson, p. 172. 



Fairly common on Pulau Terutau and also on the Bindings, 

 islands off the estuary of the Perak River, but separated from 

 the mainland by a very narrow channel. 



This species invariably flies at a great height in flocks of 

 seven or eight, and it is difficult to procure a specimen 

 except with a rifle. 



In the paper quoted above, Robinson (p. 216, Section B) 

 erroneously records this species as confined to the mainland. 

 It should, of course, be placed in section C, as it is apparently 

 common in Sumatra. 



T" 87. Anthracoceros malabaricus. 



Anthracoceros ^nalaharicus (Gm.) ; Grant, torn. cit. p. 365. 

 Common in Trang, Langkawi, and Terutau, but not found 



