1g17.) H.C. Rosrinson: Birds from Pulau Langkawi. 161 
Most authorities are agreed that in the Indian and Indo- 
Malayan regions two races occur, viz., one with a wing less than 
8 in. (200) mm. and a less robust bill, the male with a greenish 
gloss and the female with clear white streaks on the head and 
white bars on the tail. 
This race is Eudynamus ortentalis honorata (Linn.) 
The second race is larger, wing up to 8.6 in. (215 mm.) or 
more, with a more robust bill, with a cast of violaceous in 
the plumage of the male and the pale parts of the female buffy 
or rufescent buff. 
This race is Enudynamts ortentalis malayana, Cab. and 
Heine. 
udged by these standards specimens from Trang 
(Mainland and Islands), December and January; Koh Pennan 
and Koh Samui, SW. Siam, May; Pulau Langkawi, February; 
Pulau Paya near Pulau Langkawi, December; Pulau Jemor, 
Aroa Ids. November; Pulau Jarak, Straits of Malacca, March; 
and Pulau Lalang and Pulau Rumpia, Sembilan Ids., November 
and January; belong to this form, Eudynamus ortentalis malayana, 
Cab. and Heine while others from Pulau Langkawi, February; 
Pulau, Paya near Pulau Langkawi, April; Pulau Bidan, near 
Penang, April; Pulau Jarak, Straits of Malacca, March; Pulau 
Rumpia, Sembilan Ids. January and March, and Great Redang 
Id. off the coast of Trengganu, August, belong to Eudynamts 
ortentalis honorata (Linn.). 
The evidence, such as it is, points to the possibility that 
there is no resident Koel in the Malay Peninsula, south of 
Trang, and that the birds that are so numerous on the small 
islands off the coast are seasonal visitors, the differences noted 
between them being due to the fact that they have come from 
widely separated localities, thus accounting for the fact that 
two apparently different races can be shot on the same small 
island on the same day. The racesof Eurystomus orientalis and 
Accipitey gularis afford parallel instances. 
60. CHRYSOCOLAPTES GUTTACRISTATUS INDO-MALAYICUS, 
Hesse. 
Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus (Tick.) Hargitt, tom. 
cit. p. 448 (part.) Robinson and Kloss, p. 47; Robinson, antea, 
OMS We Da TAG 
Chrysocolaptes guttacristatus indo-malayicus, Hesse, 
Ornith. Monatsb. p. 182 (1911). Gyldenstolpe, Kongl. Svenska. 
Vetensk. Akad. Handl. Band 50 No. 8, p. 49 (1913). Robinson, 
Ibis, 1915, p- 7393 
a. $ Pulau Langkawi, 11th February, 1909. 
[F.M.S. Mus. 310/09. | 
b. % Kubong Badak, Pulau Langkawi. 18th 
March, 1909. [F.M.S. No. 315/09. |] 
c. $ Sungei Udang, Pulau Terutau. 8th March 
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