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CALORNIS CHALYBEA (Horsr.). : 
Calornis chalybea (Horsf.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiii., 
p. 043 (189C). 
Specimens from the outlying island of Pulau Aor, in the South 
China Sea, seem at first sight to be separable by their coarser more 
robust bills, though the other dimensions do not differ appreciably. 
In colour the island birds are not distinguishable from those 
found on the mainland. Salvadori has separated the bird from Nias 
under the name C. altirostris, mainly on account of the larger bill 
and darker colouration, both characters that seem very frequently 
developed in island races of widely distributed birds. 
CHALCOSTETHA PECTORALIS (TEMM ). 
Chalcostetha insignis (Temm.); Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
ix., p. 12 (1884). 
The Purple-breasted Sun-bird was but poorly represented in our 
collection by three skins from Penang. In June, 1912, however, we 
obtained a series from the island of Sri Buat, off the Pahang Coast, on 
the east side of the Peninsula. Like the majority of the local Sun- 
birds (excluding the Spider hunters) this species only occurs in the 
littoral belt and is rarely, if ever, found far inland. Formerly, accor- 
ding to Mr. C. B. Kloss, it was common at Tanjong Katong, in Singapore 
Island, but is seldom seen there now. Mr. Seimund found it common 
at Pulau Pintu Gedong, Klang Straits, Selangor, in September and 
October, 1912. Itis, therefore, probably largely confined to mangroves. 
PIPRISOMA EVERETTI (SHARPE). 
Prionochilus everetti, Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 16; id. P.Z.S. 1879, 
p. 343, pl. xxx, fig. 1; Id. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x., p. 76 (1885). 
I have referred to this species with some hesitation a single male 
specimen obtained at Rawang, Selangor, in July, 1912. It differs from 
the type description and the figure as cited above in being a much 
darker tint above, greyish not brown, and in having the sides darker 
erey, not nearly uniform with the middle of the belly as shown in the 
figure. The habitat of P. everetti is given as Western Borneo and 
the island of Labuan but in the absence of a series and direct com- 
parison with the type the differences are not sufficient to justify me 
in describing the bird before me as a new species. 
The present specimen was shot while feeding on a mistletoe on the 
boughs of a lofty tree in swampy jungle. 
PARUS CINEREUS, VIEILL. 
Parus cinereus ; Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii,. p. 16 (1888). 
Parus atriceps, Ogilvie Grant, Fascic. Malay Zool., iii., p. 77 (1905). 
This tit has not hitherto been recorded from the southern part of the 
Malay Peninsula thoughit was met with by myself on the coast of Patani, 
and by Dr. Abbotton the coast of Trang, about 150 miles north of Penang. 
In September and November, 1912, Mr. Seimund, however, found it 
abundant among the mangroves on Pulau Pintu Gedong, at the entrance 
to Klang Straits, Selangor coast, together with Zosterops aurewventer. 
