166 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vor. VI, 
These specimens have the wing, 84.5 mm. and I do not 
see how they are to be separated from typical specimens from 
the Philippines, with which they agree in size. In any event 
however there is a name available for the continental bird, 
viz. Bucco indicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i., p. 205 (1790) which must 
be applied to Malayan birds, although Parrot has separated the 
Sumatran bird on the strength of a slightly smaller size which 
is not altogether borne out by our large series from West 
Sumatra and on certain differences in colour, some of which 
we can confirm, the most noticeable being the absence of the 
conspicuous orange yellow collar beneath the scarlet pectoral 
patch, which is very noticeable in all the Malayan but barely 
indicated in any Sumatran specimens, which in addition have 
the green centres to the feathers of the abdomen and flanks 
more restricted and the margins of a creamy rather than a 
sulphury yellow. Parrot’s name for this form Megalaema 
haemacephala delica, (Abhandl. der Kongl. Bayer. Akad. der. 
Wissensch. (II) xxiv. Bd. 1, p. 169 (1907) is however ante- 
dated by Bucco rafflesius Boie, Brief. Ost. Ind. No. 15 (1832), 
of which our Korinchi and Padang coast birds may be 
regarded as topotypes. 
65. HIRUNDO BADIA, Cass. 
Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 166; Robinson and Kloss, p. 50; 
Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 98. 
a. Telok Wau, Terutau, 23rd December, 1916. 
IN@S 272i 
“Tris and bill dark, feet dark maroon brown.” 
Very common indeed both on Langkawi and Terutau and 
probably all over the Peninsula where there are precipitous 
limestone hills. Resident throughout the year and not known 
outside the limits of the Peninsula. A closely allied, but paler 
and considerably smaller form, H. hyperythra, Layard, is 
resident in Ceylon. 
66. HIRUNDO JAVANICA, Sparrm. 
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. p. 142 (1885); Robinson 
and Kloss, p. 50. 
a. Koh Muk (Pulau Muntia) Trang, S.W. Siam, 
5th January, 1917. No. 3854. 
“Tris dark, bill and feet black.” 
Found breeding on the cliffs of Koh Muk together with 
Cypselus subfurcatus and Collocalia sp. Also common on Pulau 
Terutau, P. Langkawi and P. Tengah between Langkawi and 
P. Langkawi. 
Common and resident all along the coasts of the Malay 
Peninsula, according to Hume and Davison rare in Tenasserim 
but very common in Southern Malaya. Curiously enough not 
hitherto recorded from Siam proper, though it is mentioned 
ina List of the Birds of Lower Cochin China by Tirant. Occurs 
also in the Philippines. 
