1918.] H. C. Ropinson & C. B. Ktoss: Birds. 247 
consistently different from those from the other localities, . 
having a shorter bill (43 mm.) against 55 mm. in the Sumatran 
and Bornean birds. 
He, however, calls the Javan bird A. robusta uropygialis, 
G. R. Gr. Gen. B. 1, Pl. 33 (1847), which is antedated by 
Miiller and Schlegei’s A. armata, and it will perhaps be safer to 
accept this and regard all the birds from the Malay Peninsula, 
Sumatra and Borneo as typical A. robusta, seeing that Miiller 
and Schlegel mention a bird from Pangerango in Java in their 
account of A. aymata: for what has probably happened is that 
the description of armata has been taken from this specimen, 
while the figure has been based on one of the birds from 
Indrapura. 
Finsch, however, also records A. robusta from Java on the 
strength of a specimen collected by Vorderman, but the bill 
was evidently imperfect, as no dimensions are given, so that 
the identification is very doubtful. 
Females are undoubtedly smaller than males, the dimen- 
sions of the above two specimens taken in the flesh being 
Totallength. Wing. Tail. Billfrom gape. Tarsus. 
mm. mm. “mm. mm. mm. 
Male 215 86 63 53 1g 
Female 200 79 58 51 18 
Six adult males from the Malay Peninsula with the orange 
pectoral tufts fully developed, vary in wing from 86-90 and in 
bill from 55-60, while the wing of a female is 79 and the bill 
51mm. Wecan detect no material differences in colouration. 
182. Dicaeum sumatranum, Cab. 
Dicaeum sumatranum, Cab., Journ. fur. Ornith. 1878, p. 
ror; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. x, p. 18 (1885); Hartert. 
Nov. Zool. ix, p. 210 (1902). 
a—b. xr 6, 1 ¥. Sandaran Agong, Korinchi Valley, 
Sumatra, 2,450 feet. 24th-31st May, ror. 
| Nos. 1640, 1807.] 
“ Male; iris dark, bill and feet black.” 
“ Female; iris dark, bill slate, culmen black, feet black.” 
Shot among low trees in secondary growth, but not 
common. 
Flower-peckers seem rare over the greater part of 
Sumatra or perhaps are rather jibbed at by many collectors. 
Beccari seems to gave got only two specimens, while none at 
all were collected by Modigliani, Klaesi or Forbes. They are 
certainly not so common as in the forests of the Malay 
Peninsula. . 
183. Dicaeum beccarii, (Plate VII., fig I.) 
Dicaeum beccarti, Robinson and Kloss, Journ. Straits 
Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. No. 73, p. 278 (1916). 
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