284 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums.  [Vot. XI, 
Iris yellowish brown, bill black, feet bluish grey with 
a green cast, soles yellowish, claws blackish. 
Wings 3 72, 67 (imm.); ° 68 mm. 
Contents of stomach : fruit seeds, insects, insects eggs. 
This very rare species is found in old forest and at 
the edge of clearings. No. 957 was one of small flock of 
five or six birds. 
This beautiful species, of which we give a figure is 
only known from the mountainous regions of Sumatra. 
The young male resembles the female but has much 
less blue on forehead, earcoverts and foreneck where there 
are two or three dark spots: it lacks also the bright blue 
edge of the wing. 
214. Irena puella crinigera Sharpe. 
IRs 62 IK I, Do 7S. 
é imm. Balun, Muara Labu, Padang Highlands, 
480 M. 
é. Buo, Padang Highlands, 280 M. 
28, 6 imm., @. Aur, Kumanis, Padang High- 
lands, 200 M. March. 
Andalas, Tandjung, Padang Highlands, 720 M. 
Muara Sako, Indrapura, 300 -M. 
Penatei, Korinchi, 300 M. 
Serapei, Korinchi, 800 M. 
, 22. Rimbo Pengadang, Lebong, Bencoolen, 
1000 M. 
Iris reddish brown, reddish or yellowish orange ; bill, 
feet, and claws black. 
Wings, 6 124, 121, 121, 120, 119, 114, 124 (@mm.), 
119 (imm.); 2? 120, 118, 118, 116, 112 mm. 
This bird is locally very numerous, in other places 
it is totally absent. As mentioned by Robinson and Kloss 
it does not occur in the Korinchi Valley proper : I met it 
however a little more to the south in the valley of the 
Merangin at Sérapei and Pénatai. Nowhere, however, is 
it found in such large numbers as in the valley of the Liki 
and the Siliti, two rivers running to the north of Korinchi 
Peak. At Balun, which lies in the valley of the Siliti, every 
evening from four to five I could observe hundreds of the 
birds crossing the valley, not in flocks, but singly or by 
twos and threes. They came out of the forest which clothes 
the hills enclosing the valley and using the isolated high 
trees standing in the valley, they crossed to the forest on 
the other side, where apparently they had their sleeping 
trees. They flew very high above the ground so that I was 
only able to secure a single specimen there. The species 
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