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-^175. MiCROPUS MELANOCEPHALUS. 



Microtarsus melanocephalus (Gm.) ; Sharpe, torn, cit. p. 65. 



Swarming iu tlie gardens at Chong on almost every tree, 

 and very common throughout the Peninsula in suitable 

 localities. 



4" 176. Criniger tephrogenys. 



Criniger tephrogenys (Jard. & Selby) ; Sharpe, torn. cit. 

 p. 71 (footnote) ; Robinson, p. 194. 



Fairly numerous, more so than the next species. 



4" 177. Criniger soRDiDUs. 



Criniger sordidus Richmond, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 320 (1900). 



Criniger ochraceus (partim) Robinson, p. 195. 



This species, originally described from Trang, can perhaps 

 be differentiated from C. ochraceus of more southern localities 

 by its browner ear-coverts and by having the white of the 

 throat less sharply defined from the rest of the under parts, 

 but the distinctions are extremely tine. We have it from 

 Langkawi as well as from Trang, and have examined one of 

 Richmond's typical series, which is now in the Selangor 

 Museum. 



"~^178. Alophoixus ph^ocephalus. 



Alophoixus phaocephalus (Hartl.) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, i. p. 259 (1889) ; Robinson, p. 195. 



Criniger phceocephalus (Hartl.) ; Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 74. 



'-/'179. Tricholestes criniger. 



Tricholestes criniger (Blyth) ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 89 ; 

 Robinson, p. 195. 



Both these species are poorly represented in our Trang 

 Collection, and are probably rare in the State. 



-7-I8O. Pycnonotus analis. 



Pijcnoiiotus analis (Horsf.) ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 140. 



In the south of the Peninsula this is the commonest 

 garden bird next to Copsychus musicus, while Otocompsa 

 emeria is almost unknown. In the north the position is quite 



