266 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vot. XI, 
The subadult birds have crown, wings and tail largely 
dark brown. The young birds are dark brown, darkest 
on crown, wings and tail, and have the foreneck white 
sullied with brown. 
161. Cymborhynchus macrorhynchus lemniscatus 
(Raffles) . 
6,292. Buo, Padang Highlands, 280 M. 
2. Aur, Kumanis, Padang Highlands, 200 M. 
2, ¢ juv., 22 juv., 2 (?) nestling. Balun, Muara 
Labu, Padang Highlands, 480 M. 
é, 9. Muara Kiawai, Ophir Districts, 40 M. 
é. Air Taman, Mt. Ophir, 300 M. 
é. Bencoolen town. 
6, 2. Pasumah, Mt. Dempu, Palembang, 900 M. 
Iris iridescent emerald green golden (if the living bird 
is kept for some time in the dark, the iris takes a purplish 
pink colour and only a narrow inner ring remains emerald), 
upper mandible turquoise blue, lower chrome yellow, base 
verditer green, tomia and tip turquoise blue, feet dark 
greyish cobalt, claws blackish. 
In immature birds the iris is bronze colour, the upper 
mandible blackish with dirty bluesish base, lower 
mandible dirty blue. 
Measurements in the flesh : 
Wings of adults: ¢ 101, 101, 103, 103, 104, 105; ¢ 99, 
100, 100, 102, 104; immature, 99, 99, 99, 99; nestling, 
91 mm. 
The young birds are brownish black above and the 
white scapulars are shorter with rounded, instead of pointed 
tips : the wing coverts are spotted with white and the chin 
and throat are brown. 
In the nestling the black upper parts of the adult are 
replaced by brown, the crown is blackish, there are a few 
buff spots above the broken red of the rump: the wing 
coverts are spotted with white. Below there are a few dull 
red feathers on breast and abdomen, the tail coverts are 
dull red: the remaining lower parts are brown and the 
black gorget is indicated by a few stiff pin feathers. 
Contents of stomach : insects. 
The bird lives in secondary forest, on the edge of 
clearings and near villages.. It is not shy at all for I saw 
their nests made in the trees of a road, another at the 
cutskirts of a village overhanging a pond. The nest is 
clobular with as entrance a hole on one side. If the bird 
is sitting on its eggs the blue and yellow bill is seen before 
the entrance-hole. The nest is attached to a thin twig, some- 
times not higher than three metres from the ground. A 
nest I inspected contained three eggs. 
