1916.] H. C. Ropinson & C. B. Kuioss: Kedah Peak. 239 
Precisely agreeing with southern specimens and showing 
no approach to the northern form, P. g. buvmanica, Sharpe. 
HALCYON PILEATA (Bodd.). 
a. 1 Male. Gurun Kedah, soft. 14th December, 1915. 
[No. 2,256.] 
SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS (Horsf.) 
a. i Male. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. 13th December, 1915. 
[No. 2,254.] 
“Tris dark brown, bill, feet brownish black.” [H.C.R. 
ca oB.K.] 
HIEROCOCCYX NANUS, Hume. 
Hierococcyx nanus, Hume; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
XXX, p. 238 (1892); Robinson & Kloss, Journ. Fed. Malay 
States Mus. v, p. 172 (1915). 
a. i Male. Gurun, Kedah, 50 ft. December 11th, 1915. 
[No. 2,224.] 
“Tris very dark brown, bill greenish slate, base of upper 
mandible black, orbital skin and gape pale chrome, feet 
yellow, claws pale wax yellow. [H.C.R. & C.B.K.] 
This specimen agrees well with two others in the Museums, 
one from the Krau River, Pahang, collected on 31st October, 
1913 and another from Ginting Bidei, Selangor-Pahang 
border, 2,300 ft., obtained on September 30th rgrq. 
Measurements of the above bird taken in the flesh. 
Total length 281; wing 150; tail, 158; tarsus, 20; ‘bill from 
gape, 30 mm. 
Wing of the Krau River Bird, 146mm. Of the Ginting 
Bidei one, 147 mm. 
This species is extremely rare in the Malay Peninsula 
proper and the above three specimens are the only ones from 
our area of which we have any record, with the exception of 
the birds from Salanga or Junk Zeylon, recorded by Muller 
(Journ. fur. Orn. 1882, p. 405). It is probably commoner in 
Tenasserim. 
RHOPODYTES DIARDI (Less.) 
a. I Male. Gurun, Kedah, 50ft. 13th December, 1915. 
[No. 2,241. ] 
“Tris pale blue, orbital skin crimson lake, feet dark gree- 
nish slate, bill sea green, area of nostrils bluish.” [H.C.R & 
(Ce JBiel el 
CHOTORHEA VERSICOLOR (Raffles). 
a—b. 2¥Females. Gurun, Kedah, 50ft. 12th December, 
OU see NOS: 2.2275 2,233.| 
“Tris chestnut, bill black, slaty at base, feet greenish 
leaky Cac. 5.1K] 
