Ropinson & Kioss : Birds of West Sumatra. 315 
The birds sexed as immature males are inseparable 
from the females. 
Very common in secondary forest, in open country 
on isolated clumps of trees, in plantations ; not met in old 
forest. Usually in pairs or in small flocks up to about 
eight birds. Frequents flowering trees on account of the 
insects swarming on the flowers. It ranges higher (viz. 
up to 1000 M.). than supposed by Robinson and Kloss 
(p. 223). 
290. Hemipus picatus picatus (Sykes). 
Beadike Wl ap. 223. 
6, 2. Fort de Kock, Padang Highlands, 920 M. 
6, ¢@. Andalas, Tandjung, Padang Highlands, 
720 M. 
$,2¢2. Sungei Kumbang, Kerinchi, 1400 M. 
é imm. Rimbo Pengadang, Lebong, Bencoolen, 
1000 M. 
5g ad, ¢ imm., 29. Suban Ajam, Mt. Kaba, 
Bencoolen, 1000 M. 
@. Air Njuruk, Mt. Dempu, Palembang, 1400 M. 
Male: iris dark brown, bill feet and claws black. 
Females and immature birds have brownish black bills 
and blackish feet. 
Wings, ¢ 64, 63, 63, 62, 62, 61, 60, 64 (imm.), 63 
(imm.); ¢ 66, 66, 64, 64, 63, 63, 62. 
The immature males are less vinaceous below with 
a dark brown upper side rapidly changing to shining black. 
A careful examination of this considerable series con- 
firms our previous opinion that H. p. intermedius, Salvad., 
cannot be maintained. 
Common; lives in secondary forest, plantations, but 
also in old forest. 
291. Tephrodornis gularis fretensis Rob. and Kloss. 
Tephrodornis sordida R. & K., I, p. 221; R. & K., II, p. 121. 
Tephrodornis pelvica fretensis R. & K., Ill, p. 109. 
g juv. Rimbo Pengadang, Lebong, Bencoolen, 
1000 M. 
$, 2. Pasumah Estate, Mt. Dempu, Palembang, 
900 M. 
Male : iris greenish yellow, bill black, feet plumbeous, 
claws blackish. The female has the iris brownish yellow 
and the bill blackish brown. In the young male the iris 
is yellowish brown, bill sepia, feet plumbeous, claws 
blackish. 
Wings, ¢ 100, 102 (imm.); ¢ 105 mm. 
