1863.] COLLECTED BY THE LATE JAMES MOTTLEY, ESa. 211 



35. Venilia MALACCENSis (Lath.). Picus malaccensis, Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. i. p. 241 ; Venilia miniata, ex Malacca, auct. 



Very common, frequenting small scattered trees in open places. 



[These specimens agree with those of Sumatra and Malacca in 

 having the hinder part of the crest yellow, and the back greenish. 

 In the Javan representative species, Venilia miniata {Picus minia- 

 tus, Gm. ex Forst.), the whole crest and the greater part of the back 

 are red. Malherbe figures the present bird (Picidse, ii. pi. 76), but 

 calls it wrongly miniata. — P. L. S.] 



36. Hemicercus coccometopus, Reichb. 



Shot at Gunong Pamalong. 



[Mr. "Wallace's collection contains three forms of this species : 

 1 St, that of Sumatra and Borneo, which has the rump reddish buff or 

 reddish white, the belly huffy brown, and the crest of the male tipped 

 with dusky ; 2nd, that from Malacca, in which the belly is deci- 

 dedly olivaceous, the rump yellowish, but the crest similar to the last ; 

 3rd, that of Java, in which the rump is nearly white, the crest very 

 ample and wholly red, and the bill shorter. Now Temminck's Picus 

 concretus (PI. Col. 90) is, as he himself states, the Javan species, 

 and we must therefore call the Javan form Hemicercus concretus. 

 The Malayan bird should bear the name Hemicercus sordidus, having 

 been described by Mr. Eyton in its immature stages as Bendrocopus 

 sordidus, his paper on the birds of Malacca in the ' Annals of 

 Natural History' for 1845 (vol. xvi. p. 229). The Sumatran and 

 Bornean species seems to be Reichenbach's Hemicercus coccometopus 

 (Handb. d. Sp. Orn. p. 401). M. Malherbe, in his work on the 

 PicidcE, appears to have only been acquainted with two forms ; and 

 his name hartlaubii is certainly synonymous with sordidus, though 

 his figure (pi. 61. fig. 5) represents the whole crest as red, — P. L. S.] 



37. Hemilophtjs javensis (Horsf.), Moore, Cat. p. 652. {Ba- 

 latak kigang.) 



This Woodpecker, of which I think I sent the female only from 

 Labuan, is here also a very rare bird. My man prided himself very 

 much upon getting a pair of them. 



38. Hemilophus validus (Temm.), PI. Col. 378, 402 ; Bp. 

 Consp. p. 131. 



Killed by my hunter on the Riam-Kiwa River. 



39. Sasia abnormis (Temm.), Bp. Consp. p. 140. 

 From the Dyak River ; said to frequent low bushes. 



Fam. CAPRIMULGIDiE. 



40. Batrachostomus javensis (Horsf.). Podargus javensis, 

 Horsf. Zool. Res. pi. 6 ; Bp. Consp. p. 57. 



This strange-looking bird is quite nocturnal in its habits. I have 



