IV. ON TWO NEW BIRDS FROM THE SOUTHERN 
LOR MITON OF iE MALAY SPE NINSULA. 
By HERBERT C. Ropinson, M.B.O.U. and 
C. BopEN Ktoss, M.B.0.U. 
In 1gti (1bis, p. 79) we recorded the dull coloured little 
Flower Pecker, Piprisoma modestum (Hume), from Trang in 
the north of the Malay Peninsula, noting this locality as the 
most southerly hitherto recorded and, somewhat incautiously 
perhaps, stating that it certainly does not occur in that portion 
of the Malay Peninsula under British influence. 
In this, however, we were in error, as amongst a collection 
obtained by the Museum collectors in January, 1913, at Bukit 
Tangga in Negri Sembilan, on a pass on the main Peninsular 
divide at about 1,500 ft. altitude occur four specimens of what 
are certainly this species. They, however, present sufficient 
differences from two specimens from Trang to merit 
separation as— 
PIPRISOMA MODESTUM subsp. REMOTUM, subsp. nov. 
Differing from the typical race in having the whole of 
the upper surface, sides of the head and outer aspect of the 
wings duller and darker grey, with less tinge of olive green. 
White on outer tail feathers perhaps rather less extensive, but 
this character not very marked. Total length, 3.8; wing, 
2.37; tail, 1.4; bill from gape, 0.43 inches. 
Type—Adult male, Bukit Tangga, Negri Sembilan, 1,500’, 
27th January, 1914 (wat. coll.) F. M.S. Mus. No. 1/14. Two 
other males and a female from the same locality examined. 
Remarks: Bukit Tangga is nearly 400 miles distant from 
the nearest locality from which P. modestwm has been obtained, 
otherwise we should have hesitated to describe this form on 
distinctions which are somewhat fine, though quite obvious in 
the four specimens before us. 
RHINOMYIAS TARDUS, Sp. nov. 
In September 1913 the Museum collectors obtained on 
Bukit Tampin, a hill in Negri Sembilan near the Malacca 
boundary rising to 2,500 ft., two examples of an unknown species 
of Rhinomyias, and in the same month of the present year they 
collected a third specimen at Genting Bidai, 2,300 ft., a pass 
in the main range between Selangor and Pahang. 
This species, which may be known as RHINOMYIAS TARDUS, 
sp. nov. differs from R. fectovalis, the only other species 
inhabiting the Malay Peninsula, in being more olivaceous 
throughout, the tail and edges of the wing feathers alone 
