22 BIRDS OF THE LARUT HILLS. 
low as 2,000 feet, А тегу active restless bird, always on the 
move, Constantly in the jungle something darts past one with 
a whirr, and only its characteristic sharp squeak enables one to 
recognize the spider-hunter. (4.) 
72. Diceum ignipectus. (Hodgs.) 
Fire- breasted Flowerpecker. I shot one at 4,000 feet. 
Probably common, but it is impossible to identify these tiny 
birds with certainty on tall trees. (1) 
73. Prionochilus ignicapillus. (Eyt.) 
Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker. F airly common up to 
4000 feet. (1.) 
74. Prionochilus maculatus. (Temm.) 
The White throated Flowerpecker. ^ Met with on the 
higher parts of the hill. (1.) : 
75. Serilophus rothschildi. (Hartert and Butler.) 
Rothschild’s Broadbill. The discovery of this very beauti- 
ful little broadbill—the third known species of its genus—made 
a red-letter day for a collector. I first came across it at 2,500 
feet. Two little greybreasted birds were sitting side by side 
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them and killed both. The birds fell into a dense tangle of 
thorny rattan, and at the end of half-an-hour’s search I was just 
giving up in disgust when I found one of them. Seeing at a 
glance that it was a novelty and a very beautiful oue, I renewed 
my search, cutting away the abominably thorny shoots of the 
searching the foliage of a large-leaved tree for insects, and 
6 new species 
rom the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, No. LIV. 
