1918. ] H. C. Ropinson & C. B. Kioss: Birds. 199 
tik", 11 6,6%,1¢imm. _ Korinchi Peak, Sumatra, 
7,300-10,000 feet. 23rd April-13th May, 
1914. [Nos. 1093, 1133, 1162, 1238, 1304, 
1356, 1376-9, 1399-1401, 1493, 1504-6, 1523.] 
I"-y". 36, 15 imm., 3%. Barong Bharu, Barisan 
Range, West Sumatra, Lat. 2° S. 4,000 feet. 
6th-11th June, 1914. [Nos. 1896, Igto-11, 
IQIg, 1961-2, 2001. | 
“Tris hazel, bill and feet black; immature, with the bill 
yellowish at tip and gape.” 
A very tame and fearless bird, extremely common among 
the undergrowth in heavy jungle from 4,500 feet to the limit 
of forest vegetation at over 10,000 feet but scarce below 3,000 
feet. Especially abundant near water. The call is a loud 
and musical whistle similar to that of species of Myzophoneus, 
but this bird is very much less shy than the birds of that 
genus with which we are acquainted. 
The separation of the three species, A. cyanea (Horsf.), 
A. melanura (Salvad.), and A. castaneus (Wardl. Rams.), from 
the larger forms with heavier beaks, and less rounded wings, 
included in Myiophoneus is in our opinion quite justified, 
though it is very questionable whether the species from 
Ceylon, A. blight, is congeneric with the Malayan forms. 
Salvadori states that the sexes do not materially differ, 
but the very large series listed above confirms Dr. Sharpe’s 
descriptions, the females being very much less black and more 
purplish beneath, with the cobalt spangled tips to the feathers 
above and beneath less pronounced. 
Very young birds are uniform sooty black beneath, but 
rather older birds have the feathers of the breast with narrow 
whitish brown shaft stripes and the lores tipped with the same 
colour. 
127. Myiophoneus flavirostris subsp. dicrorhynchus, Salvad. 
Myophonus dicrorhynchus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv, 
p. 227 (1879.) 
Mytophoneus dicrorhynchus, Wardl. Rams. P.Z.S. 1880, p. 
16; Nicholson, Ibis, 1883, p. 247; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. vii, p. 10 (1883); Qalvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) xii, p. 
64 (1891); Grant. Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. iu, p. 27 
(1908) ; Robinson, op. cit. 11, p. 203. 
Myiophoneus sp. ic., Sharpe, P.Z.S. 1887, p. 436. 
Myiophoneus flavirostris, Buttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus. ix, 
p. 65 (1887); Vorderman, Nat. Tijd. Nederl. Ind. xlix, p. 409, 
no. 365 (1889). 
Myiophoneus eugenit, Butler (nec. Hume.), Journ. Straits 
Branch. Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 32, p. 12 (1899); Bonhote, P.Z.S, 
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