1917.| H.C. Roprnson: Birds from Pulau Langkawi. 147 
a. %. Sungei Kilim, Pulau Langkawi, 23rd March 
tg0g. [F.M.S. Mus. No. 447/09. ] 
b. 2. Kuala Kubong Badak, Pulau Langkawi, 19th 
March 1909. [F.M.S. Mus. No. 448/09. ] 
c. %. Telok Wau, Pulau Terutau. 21st December 
rgi6. [No- 3710)]- 
Not very scarce in heavy jungle thioughout the 
peninsula. 
A careful examination of the whole series of this genus 
from the Malay Peninsula in the Museums, together with four 
specimens from Borneo, does not bear out Mr. Hartert’s conten- 
tions that three species, viz. C. tvidactyla (Pall.), C. rufidorsa 
(Strickl.)=C. euerythra Sharpe and C. dillwym, Sharpe occur 
in the Malay Peninsula.* The first two, of course do, though 
I am inclined to think that the existence of a dark blue post- 
auricular spot in the type of C. vufidorsa proves that it is really 
an immature C. tridactyla and that the proper name for the red- 
backed form is, after all, C. euerythra Sharpe (type from Klang, 
Selangor). Specimens from the Malay Peninsula which at first 
sight appear to agree with Mr. Hartert’s diagnosis of C. dillwy ni 
on closer examination resolve themselves into immature C. 
tvidactyla or sub-adult C. rufidorsa. The specimens from 
Borneo in the Museum are all C. rufidorsa with no dark 
frontal spot, no post-auricular blue patch, and the wing coverts 
mainly rufous. 
Parrot,t in some very confused remarks on the subject, 
has founded another subspecies of C. rufidorsa, C. r. robusta, 
on a specimen from Sumatra without sex or exact locality, 
which he suggests may be a mountain form. It has a wing of 
62, which seems its main claim to distinction. There is also 
an insufficiently described “species” t from East Sumatra. 
35. CARCINEUTES PULCHELLUS (Horsf.). 
Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 198; Robinson and Kloss, p. 3.4; 
Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 92; Robinson, p. 732. 
a. $6. Kuala Kubong Badak, Langkawi, 17th 
March, 1909. [F.M.S. Mus. No. 487/09. ] 
b. %. Sungei Kilim, Langkawi, 22nd March, 1909. 
[F.M.S. Mus. No. 489/09. ] 
Very much rarer in the north of the Peninsula than 
in the states further south. 
36. HALCYON COROMANDA COROMANDA (Lath.). 
Halcyon coromandus (Lath.); Sharpe, tom. cit. 
p- 217; Robinson and Kloss, p. 34. 
* Nov. Zool. VIII, PP. 429-430 (1902) i ane Coe Ter ae nee 
+ Abhandl. der K. Bayern Akad. der Wissensch II. K]. XXIV, Bd. I, p. 
208 (1907). 
} Ceyx enopopygius, Oberholser, Smiths. Misc. Coll. vol 60, p. 7 (1912) 
(Aru Bay, East Sumatra). 
