134 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vov. VIII, 
4 g, 11 @. Sungei Kumbang, Korinchi, Suma- 
tra, 4,600 feet. rst April-r2th May. [Nos. 
535, 563, 666, 688, 692, 726, 790, 798-9, 801, 
939, 992, 1005, 1051, 1557. 
j'-g'. 8, 6 1mm. Korinchi Peak, Sumatra, 7,200 feet. 
tzth-14th May. [Nos. 1511, 1531.] 
h'. gimm. Sandaran Agong, Korinchi Valley, 
Sumatra, z,450 feet. 3rd June. [No.1856.] 
Adult :—‘ Iris amethyst or plum, bill cherry red, culmen 
darker, feet and claws pale orange, orbital skin turquoise blue, 
purplish round the eye, verditer green at gape.” 
Immature :—“ Iris plum, bill yellowish, the culmen dark, 
feet yellow, orbital skin turquoise, the gape verditer green.” 
Very common in heavy jungle from the valley floor up to 
about 5,000 feet, but not extending far up the peak itself. 
Like others of the family a silent, inactive bird, perching 
hunched up on boughs or large creepers and with a very moth- 
like flight. The crop of one examined contained small beetles 
and Heteroptera and one or two larval stick insects. 
Females are distinguished from the males by having the 
vermiculations on the wing coverts much narrower, and 
whitish, not yellow, by the slightly paler yellow of. the under- 
surface and by the absence of the maroon bar on the rump. 
Young birds have the greenish pectoral band partially rusty 
buff and the lesser upper wing coverts with large heart-shaped 
spots of lemon yellow on the shaft not extending to the edge 
of the feathers. The maroon rump band of the male is 
apparently developed at a very early age. 
48. Surniculus lugubris subsp. brachyurus, Stresemann. 
Surniculus lugubris (Horsf.); Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 
xiv, p. 184 (879); Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. ix, p. 27 
(1887); Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xix, p. 227 (1891). 
Surmeulus lugubris brachyurus, Stresemann, Noy. Zool. 
XX, p. 340 (1913); Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. 
VAN [Ds 277 (CUO) jc 
a. I 6. Siolak Daras, Korinchi Valley, Sumatra, 
3,000 feet. r1gth March, 1914. ‘No. 258.] 
b. 1. Pasir Ganting, West Sumatran Coast, Lat. 
2°S. 22nd June 1914. [No. 2080.] 
“Tris brown, or red, bill black, feet slaty.” 
The only examples obtained, though the species is doubt- 
less common in the winter months. 
These specimens have the wings 126 and 123 and the tails 
123,123 mm. A female from Toentoengan Estate, near Deli, 
N. E. Sumatra, has the wing 136, tail not measureable. In 
the typical race the tail is longer than the wing. 
Expedition to Korinchi: 
