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very foud of perching on the top branches of lofty dead trees 

 on the edge of the jvmgle or on the banks of rivers, leaving 

 their perches for a few moments to hawk after insects and 

 always returning to the same place. They are specially 

 attracted by termites, and large numbers of these species, as 

 of other Swifts and Goatsuckers, appear when these insects 

 are flighting, which is generally at dusk after heavy rain. 



TROGONIDiE. 



^99. Pyrotrogon orescius. 



Harpactes orescius (Temm.) ; Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 xvii. p. 494 (1892). 



Pyrotrogon orescius Bobinson, p. 176. 



Very numerous both in Trang and on the Langkawi 

 Islands, and the only member of the family met with in 

 either of these localities. In the central and southern 

 portions of the Peninsula it is a very much rarer bird. 



CUCULID^* 



/"lOO. COCCYSTES coromandus. 



Coccystes coromandus (Linn.) ; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. xix. p. 214 (1891). 



Very common in Trang in the open country, and also in 

 the Langkawi group ; it was met with, together with several 

 other migratory Cuckoos, on the Aroa Islands in the middle 

 of the Straits of Malacca, in November and December 1906. 

 In the south of the Peninsula, at any rate in the more 

 inland districts, it is very much rarer. 



We believe this to be largely a migratory species, occurring 

 in numbers only in the winter months, though Davison 

 obtained specimens in Malacca in July. 



T 101. SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS. 



Surniculus luyubris (Horsf.) ; Shelley, tom. cit. p. 176; 

 Robinson, p. 176. 



The Drongo-Cuckoo is very common throughout the 

 Peninsula at all times of the year. 



