OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. SECOND NOTICE. 155 



The dimensions of the three races will be found contrasted, 

 S. ¥., III., 65. 



I have always united the Burmese birds with sultaneus, to 

 which they are nearer than to the Southern Indian and Malayan 

 strictus ; but I am pretty well convinced, after carefully re-read- 

 ing- Malberbe's remarks, that any one who desires to separate 

 them must apply to them Malberbe's name delesserti. 



I cannot discover that, except in the matter of size, there is 

 any permanent and constant difference between the three races, 

 though it may be that the Malayan strictus has, on the average, 

 a less amount of red on the lower back and rump than the 

 Burmese, Himalayan, and even Southern Indian forms. It 

 may, therefore, be a question with many whether all should not 

 be merged in one species, but the diflferenee in size between 

 the true sultaneus and strictus is so great that for the present 

 I prefer to keep them separate. 



* 190 ^.—Indicator malayanus, Sharpe. P. Z. S. 1878, 794. 



f Near Klang.] 



We procured one specimen, a female, of this species, which 

 I at once recognized as differing by the want of the yellow patch 

 on the shoulder of the wing from Temminck's /. archipelagicus. 

 Not feeling- sure that the female of this latter might not thus 

 differ from the male, I did not describe it as new. Mr. Sharpe, 

 however, who has examined a female of archipelagicus, procured 

 at Bintulu by Mr. Alfred Everett, assures us that the Malayan 

 bird is distinct, and he has named it as above. 



* 198 ter. — Megalmma cyanotis, Bit/. 



[Tonka Is. and Klang.] 



* 211. — CTirysococcyx maculatus, Gm. 



[Malacca and Klang.] 



■* 217 qiiat. — Centrococcyx intermedins, Hume. 



[Kussoom and Tonka.] 



It will be observed that Ave have met with this species only 

 quite in the north of the Malay Peninsula. 



* 254 his. — Upupa longirostris, Jerd. 



[Tonka Is.] 



* 267. — Hemipus picatus, Sylces. 



[Tonka Is. and Kussoom.] 



* 878. — Buchanga atra, Ilerm. 



[Tonka Is ] 



