186 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vovr. VIII, 
great rapidity both in skin and apparently in feather during 
life, and old specimens lose the clear greyish black tint and 
acquire a distinctly sooty brown tint. 
It was to a single bird in this state that Sharpe applied 
the name M. peninsulans. 
114. Rhinocichla mitrata (S. Miill.). 
Leiothrix mitrata, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii, p. 230 
(1879); Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. xlix, p. 405, 
no. 325 (1889). 
Rhinocichla mitrata (S. Mill.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. vii, p. 452 (1883) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1882, p. 61; 1d. op. 
cit. 1883, p. 248; Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. ix, p. 68 
(1887) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2), xii, p. 66 (1891) ; 
Robinson, Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. u, p. 197 (1909). 
~Rhinocichla mitrata mitrata, Parrot, Abh. Konigl. Akad. 
Bayer. der Wissensch. 11, KI. xxiv, Bd. 1, p. 245 (1907). 
a,b. 24%. Sungei Penoh, Korinchi Valley, Suma- 
tra, 2,700 feet. toth-11th March, 1914. 
[Nos. 56, 35.] 
ct. 3 46,4 %. Siolak  Daras, | Korinchi Valley, 
Sumatra, 3,000 feet. 14th-26th March, 
WOU, {INOS O2; WOK, WOA, AWS, Bis a0, 
445-] 
j-g. 5%,3%. Sungei Kumbang, Korinchi, Sumatra, 
4,700 feet. iIst-19th April, 1914. [Nos. 544, 
551, 627, 641, 816, 932, 952, 1029. ] 
y-u. 26, 2%. Sandaran Agong, Korinchi Valley, 
Sumatra, 2,450 feet. 26th May—7th June, 
1914. [Nos. 1675, 1804, 1814, 1883.] 
v-w. 26. Barong Bharu, Barisan Range, West 
Sumatra, Lat 2° S. 4,o00 feet. 5th-roth 
June, 1914. [Nos. 1909, 1916. | 
“Tris chestnut or red, orbital skin livid silvery blue, bill 
orange, feet pale chrome or rich wax yellow.” 
Very common indeed in small flocks throughout the lower 
slopes of the Korinchi Valley up to about 5,000 feet, but not 
higher. A noisy and active bird, climbing about the masses 
of creepers festooning the trees, but not as a rule found high 
up on the larger trees. Less terrestrial than Melanocichla 
lugubris. 
There are no marked differences in colour between this 
sertes and others from the mountains of the Malay Peninsula, 
where the species is common. Sumatran birds are a little 
more rusty, less maroon red on the pileum. There is some 
difference in size; 25 Malayan birds range from I0I-I1g9 mm. 
in length of wing, averaging 107.4; 23 Sumatran specimens 
range from 94-106 mm., averaging IOT.4. 
Bills of Malayan birds are larger. , 
Expedition to Korinchi ; 
