147 
PICIDA. 
40, CHRYSOCOLAPTES GUTTICRISTATUS. 
Chrysocolaptes gutticristatus (Tick.); Hargitt, tom. cit., p. 448 ; 
Robinson and Kloss. 
A male from Koh Samui. Fairly common in the interior of the 
islands especially on the pinang palms (Areca catechu). 
41. IYNGIPICUS CANICAPILLUS. 
Tyngipicus canicapillus (Blyth) ; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xviii, p. 322 (1890) ; Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 46; Robinson, 
Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus., v, p. 20 (1913). 
Iyngipicus pumilus, Hargitt, tom. cit., p. 321. 
Of two males obtained on Koh Samui in May, one has the central 
rectrices entirely uniform, while the other has them spotted on both 
webs. The wing of both specimens is about 3.2 in. (80 mm.). I 
think therefore that I. pwmilus whose range is overlapped both north 
and south by J. canicapillus Has no claim even to sub-specific 
distinction. 
PITTID At. 
42, PITTA _CYANOPTERA. 
antea, p. 97. 
One female from Koh Samui. 
“Tris dark hazel, bill black, feet flesh.” 
MUSCICAPID Ai. 
43, CYORNIS SUMATRENSIS. 
Siphia sumatrensis, Sharpe, tom. cit., p. 451. 
Cyornis sumatrensis, Hartert, Nov. Zool., ix, p. 550 (1902), 
Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 51. 
After a good deal of hesitation I have referred a large number of 
specimens obtained in both islands to this race, which does not seem 
very markedly differentiated from C. tickellie of Peninsular India 
and Burma, from which it is distinguished only by its slightly smaller 
size, and whiter abdomen, sharply defined from the rufous orange of 
the breast. 
“ Hemale, iris dark hazel, bill black, feet bluish flesh.” 
Mr. Seimund obtained a nest on Koh Pennan on May 25th and 
shot the parent bird. The nest was placed in a crevice in a rock 
about six feet off the ground and is of the usual flycatcher type, 
a hemispherical cup about four inches in external and two in internal 
diameter, made of dead leaves and fragments of fern and lined 
with tendrils. The eggs were three in number and hard set. In 
shape they are blunt ovals and the shell is almost without gloss. 
The ground colour is olive grey clouded with mottlings of reddish 
brown which in two eggs is fairly evenly distributed over the shell 
and in third forms a zone at the larger end. The measurements are 
A 172x13.6; B178x 13.3; C 178x13.5 mm. 
Oct,, 1914, 
