1870.] A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. 291 



thers 7%" ; bill at front 2£" ; from gape 2f ", at base // high and 

 {$" broad ; tarsns If' 7 . 



A Malacca specimen, probably an undeveloped male, has the 

 head above only partially crimson, occiput distinctly crimson and 

 the feathers elongated ; stripe at the base of the lower mandible 

 black, vent very slightly fulvous, almost pure white, tips of the pri- 

 maries dusky; wing 8£" ; tail 6" ; bill at front If", from gape 2£"> 

 at base -£" high and a little more than |J* broad ; tarsus l T y. 



In both, but especially in the first specimen, the lower fulvous 

 white reaches laterally high up, leaving only a narrow black stripe 

 along the middle of the rump, which is wholly white in the South 

 Indian H. Kodgsoni, J e r d., and the Burmese M. Feddeni,* B 1 y t h, 

 the latter differing solely from the Indian form by having a little 

 more white on the internal wing feathers. 



Malherbe questions the correctness of B 1 y t h 's reference 

 " Tenasserim" concerning H. Javensis, but does not give his reason 

 for it. Evidently he entertains the idea that the true Malayan 

 fauna stops at Malacca, and that the Burmese and Tenasserim fauna 

 is what is generally called Indian. 



23. Hemilophus [Reinvakdtipictjs] valid its, E e i n w. 



PI. Col. 378 and 402 ; B 1 y t h, Cat. 54, No. 240 ; M a 1 h e r b e, 

 Mon. Pic. I, p. 28. 



Common in the Wellesley Province ; B 1 y t h says " Western 

 Malasia." Sclater (Proc. Z. Soc. Lond. 1863, p. 211) gives it 

 from Borneo. 



$ . Wing 6f ; tail 3J— 3f " ; bill at front 1 T y, from gape 1 i" ; tar- 

 sus l T y ; outer hind- toe including claw 1^". The 9 is often slightly 

 smaller, the corresponding measurements are 6" to 6f" ; 3£ ; 1 J ; 



1 l 3 . 1 l .15 

 *l¥> 1 T6"? X B* 



The lateral ridges on the front part of the bill are double, and 

 continue up to the tip which is high and laterally compressed. As 

 regards the shape of the bill, there is no difference between that of 

 the present species, and that of typical Semilophus, but while in this 

 one the versatile toe is shorter than the middle one, it is longer in 

 Beinwardtipicus, which is exactly intermediate between Chrgsoco- 

 laptes and Hemilophus , where J e r d o n placed it. 

 * Journal A. S. B., 1863, vol. xxxii, p. 75. 



