152 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vot. VII, 
It is unfortunate that we should have to transfer the name 
“viridis” from one well known species of Africa and India 
to this species but Hartert’s statements cannot apparently be 
gainsaid. It is to be hoped, however, that some enthusiastic 
splitter will be found to discern differences between typical 
Javan birds and others from the Malay Peninsula, Borneo 
and Sumatra, as even the most austere lumper would view the 
race with an indulgent eye and we should be able to return 
to the more familiar name sumatyvanus for the local form, with 
a clear conscience, even if it was only used as a subspecific 
title. 
44. MEROPS PHILIPPINUS, Linn. 
Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 71; Robinson and Kloss, p. 37; 
Robinson, antea, vol. v, pp. 146. 
Merops superciliosus philippinus, Gyldenstolpe, p. 110. 
a—b. 2%. imm. Telok Wau, Terutau. 18-2o0th 
December, 1916. Nos. 3656, 3674. 
“Iris carmine, bill black, feet greyish black.” 
Other specimens in the museum from Pulau Terutau are 
dated February and March. In the south of the Peninsula, 
probably from about the latitude of Terutau, this Bee-eater is 
almost certainly only a winter visitor, or at any rate is very 
rare at other seasons, all the specimens in the museums being 
dated from October to March. Further north it begins to be 
a resident form, as it was common on Koh Samui and Koh 
Pennan, islands in the Bandon Bight, about Lat 9°N., in May, 
1913. 
45. MELITTOPHAGUS LESCHENAULTI SWINHOEI, Hume. 
Melittophagus swinhou, Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 55; 
Robinson and Kloss, p. 36; Robinson, antea, vol. v, p. 92; 
Robinson, Ibis, 1915, p. 734. 
Melittophagus leschenaulti swinhoei, Gyldenstolpe, 
p. 110. 
a. &. Telok Wau, Terutau, 25th December, 1916. 
[No. 3739-] 
“Tris carmine, bill and feet black.” 
Common also at Langkawi, whence specimens have been 
obtained in the months of February, April, November and 
December. 
Immature birds have the chestnut bay of the forehead 
mingled with greenish, the throat paler and the chestnut colour 
of the lower throat preceding the black patch not nearly so 
marked. 
This species has never been found further south in the 
Peninsula than Parit, central Perak, whence we have two 
specimens shot in September, tgrr. It occurs neither in 
Borneo or Sumatra but reappears in a slightly altered form in 
Java and Bali as the typical M. leschenaulti (Vieill.) 
