OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. SECOND NOTICE. 153 



* 142. — Hydrocissa albirostris, Shaw. 



[Tonka, 8° N. Lat.] 



* 153. — Loriculus vernalis, Sparrm. 



[Tonka.] 



* 163 bis A. — Yungipieus variegatus^ Wa^l. (? Y. fusco- 

 albidus, Salvad. U. di B., 42.) 



[Klang, 3" N. Lat] 



In the birds of Tenasserim, pp. 125, 126, 1 doubtfully united 

 Tungipicus canicapillus, Blytb, which occurs throughout the 

 Malayan Peninsula from the extreme north to the extreme 

 south, with variegatus, of Latham apud Wagler (Syst. Av. Gen, 

 Pic. Sp. 27, neo Latham). I did this as I explained, because 

 this variegatus was said to be common in the Malay Peninsula 

 and Sumatra, and because this canicapillus was the only species 

 we had met with or seen from either of these localities ; but T 

 said : " Is it possible that a second smaller race occurs both in 

 Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, and that canicapillus, a 

 distinct and larger race, also extends to both these ?" 



We have now procured a single specimen of this smaller and 

 unquestionably distinct race. 



This specimen agrees perfectly w^ith Wagler's description. 

 It has no trace of grey whatsoever on the crown, which, with 

 the ground color of the whole of the upper surface (except the 

 back of the neck which is darker), is, as Wagler says, '^fuligi- 

 noso-fuscus,^^ a regular smoky brown ; whereas the crown of 

 canicapillus is a distinct grey, sometimes browner, sometimes 

 whiter, and the ground color of the whole upper surface almost 

 black. 



Again of an enormous series no specimen of canicapillus has 

 the wing less than 30 ; only one has it less than 3*1 ; several run 

 to 3'3 and one or two exceed this. In the present species 

 the wing is barely 2 9, though the specimen is an adult 

 male. 



Wallace gives the wing of his sondaicus as 2'88, and I should 

 not have doubted that his species was the one that I have 

 obtained, were it not that Wallace says that his sondiacus is the 

 bird figured by Malberbe as moluccensis, whereas our bird agrees 

 perfectly with Malberbe's figure of variegatus, but is not yellow 

 underneath nor nearly so dark above as his figure of his moluc- 

 censis. The true moluccensis, according to Wallace, has the wing 

 only 2*25. I am, therefore, unable to make certain which 

 species Salvador! refers to as moluccensis, since he unites under 

 this both variegatus, Wagler, of which the latter gives the wing 

 at 2 inches 8 lines, of the old Paris foot, equals 3 "02 English, 

 with moluccensis, of which Wallace gives the wing as 2'25, at 



