292 A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology. [No. 4, 



Malherbe's figures could hardly have been taken from fresh 

 or well preserved specimens, unless they represent unusual varieties. 

 I never saw the female so pale coloured, as shewn byMalherbe 



$ . Crown of head extending down the occiput with a moderate 

 crest crimson, back and rump bright orange yellow, wings with the 

 scapulars and coverts dark brown with five brown bands, the basal 

 very small ; fore head, sides of head including a narrow supraciliary 

 stripe, and below extending on the chin, golden yellow, most dis- 

 tinct on the mustachial streak, becoming brownish on the ear-coverts 

 and posterior to them ; median chin stripe and the whole plumage 

 below more or less bright crimson ; upper tail coverts and tail 

 black ; lower tail coverts mostly brown. 



$ . Above, head, neck, wings blackish brown, the latter with five 

 brown bands, the basal almost obsolete ; whole back and rump 

 white ; upper tail coverts and tail black ; sides of head and chin 

 ashy white, median chin striped and the whole of the lower plumage 

 ashy brown. 



24. ClIRYSOPHLEGMA MENTALIS, T 6 m 111. 



PL Col. 384, and M a 1 h e r b e Mon. Picidce. 



T e m mi n c k in his figure gives the throat almost wholly black. 

 The Malayan specimens from the Wellesley Province have it al- 

 ways only black striped, as shewn in M a 1 h erbe's drawing ; but I 

 have not seen the brown color at the sides of the throat and of the 

 front breast extending above the eye ; it extends up to the eye 

 but not on the supraciliary edge itself. The forehead is in S 6 

 somewhat brownish and the crown dingy green. 



Specimens from the Wellesley Province vary in size : — wing 5£" 

 — 5|" ; tail along the central feathers 3f" to 4" ; bill at front 1 y 

 If" ; from gape 1£" — 1 T V' ; tarsus l T y ; inner toe barely £" ; versatile 

 toe slightly shorter than the median one. 



25. Ciirysophlegma Malaccensis, Lath. 

 Venilia malaccensis, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 



p. 211, from Borneo, 



For description see B 1 y t h in Journ. Asiat. Soc. XIV, p. 192; 



I got this species only from Malacca, it does not appear to ex- 

 tend farther North. 



