44 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds from the 



the birds that we shot ourselves were feeding in flocks 

 on the fruit of a species of fig-tree which attains a very 

 great height. 



Individuals from Trang appear to be fairly typical^ but this 

 locality is very nearly the southern limit of the species. At 

 Temengoh, in Northern Perak, specimens assignable both 

 to this and the southern form, M. duvauceli^ having the 

 ear-coverts either blue or black or intermediate, are found. 

 Many Selangor specimens have the ear-coverts faintly 

 w^ashed with verditer-blue, while in Malacca, Johor, and the 

 Suuda Islands the typical black-eared form alone occurs. 



^^\2\. Xanthol^ma h.ematocephala. 



Xantholmna hcematocephula (Miill.) ; Shelley, tom. cit. 

 p. 89. 



Very numerous, keeping more to the open country and to 

 orchard land, but not found further south in the Malay 

 Peninsula than Central Perak. 



Its Malay name, tukuiiy besi, the blacksmith bird, alludes 

 to its gong-like notes, which are most characteristic sounds 

 in the districts which it affects. 



Indicatorid^. 



-,'-122. Indicator archipelagicus. 



Indicator archipelafjicus Temm. ; Shelley, Cat, Birds Brit. 

 Mus. xix. p. 4 (1891). 



Indicator malayanus Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 794, 

 795 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, viii. p. 155 ; Robinson, 

 p. 180. 



Indicator archipelagicus inornatus Neumann, Bull. B. O. C. 

 xxi. pp. 97, 98 (1908). 



? . Chong, Trang, N. Malay Peninsula, 30th December, 

 1909. 



? . Ginting Bidei, Selangor, 2300 ft., 13th May, 1908. 



The Malayan Honey-Guide appears to be a species of 

 extreme rarity, and after six years^ collecting the Selangor 

 Museum has only succeeded in obtaining the above-men- 

 tioned two specimens, while the two others known from the 



