28 BIRDS OF THE LARUT HILLS. 
for a foothold beside it, by the tip of the wingfeathers and hold 
“it hanging thus for several seconds, (2.) 
98. Macropteryx longipennis ( Rafinesque.) 
he Malayan Crested Swift. 1 occasionally noticed it 
hawking over the tops of the jungle up to nearly 5,000 feet. 
99, Macropteryx comata. (Blyth.) 3 
e Tufted Tree-Swift. Seen at 2,000 feet, but not as 
numerous аз in the low country 
100. lei indicus ake (Temm.) 
The Jungle Nightjar. A few pairs frequented the Tea 
Garden clearing а 2,000 feet) and used to hawk along the 
jungle edge at dusk. I shot a pair. (2.) 
macrurus and Lyncornis temmincki, so common in the low 
country, I neither saw nor heard on the hills 
101. Harpactes erythrocephalus. (Gould.) 
The Red-headed Trogon. Met with several times at 3,500 
feet ог so. (1) 
102. ee duvauceli. (Temm.) 
Th 
ample at 8, 500 feet. 
103. Zanclostomus javanicus. (Horsf.) 
The Lesser Red-billed Malkoha. 
Seems to me to range higher up the bills than the other 
birds of this group. It is not uncommon at 3,500 feet. It is 
very partial to the big wingless females of one of the larger 
stick insects, for which it searches the branches so systematic- 
ally that the — wonderful likeness to a dead twig avails it 
Having pecked and bruised the mantis into a state of 
helplessness, the bird proceeds to pull off the strong spiny legs 
one a one and then swallows the long body head first. Ihave 
taken 3 of these insects, 7 or 8 inches 8 long and nearly as thick as 
one’s little finger from the stomach of one of these Malkohas. (1.) 
d-rumped a I obtained one very young ex- 
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