830 A Contribution to Malayan Omitholoyy. [No. 4, 



83. MlJXIA ACUTICATJDA, HodgS. 



Jerdon, B. India, II, p. 356. 



Wing 1-J", tail \\^' ; bill very little more than f" ; tarsus T 7 ^, the 

 central tail feather h'' longer than the outermost. Specimens from 

 the Wellesley Province, exactly agree in colouring with the Indian 

 bird, but they are slightly smaller as compared with the measure- 

 ments given by J e r d o n. Yisc. Walden (Proc. Z. S. L. 1866, 

 p. 552), says that a Moulmein specimen is larger than a Darjeel- 

 ing specimen in his collection, but that Formosan specimens agree 

 better with the Himalayan race. Thus slight variations seem to 

 occur locally, but they did apparently not yet attain to such 

 prominent distinctions, that they could form the basis of new 

 species ! 



Fam. COLmiBIBM. 



84. Trerox [Osmotrerox] verxaxs, Linn., 1771. 

 ? C. viridis, Scop., 1777, non viridis, Linn. 



Wing 5f" ; tail 3 J" ; bill at front little more than l", from gape 

 -if" ; tarsus |". This species does not appear to extend farther 

 north than the Wellesley Province and Penang, and is already rare 

 in these localities, but it is common on all the southern islands, 

 Sumatra, Java, Borneo, &c. 



85. Trerox [Osmotrerox] olax, T e m m. 



Wing 4£" ; tail very nearly 3" ; bill at front }/, sometimes very 

 thickened on the terminal half ; tarsus J". Not uncommon about 

 Malacca, Penang and the Wellesley Province, the latter being 

 apparently the northern limit of the geographical extent of the 

 species. 



86. Philixopus (Ramphicitlus) j ambit, G m e 1. 



E a f f 1 e s (Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII, pt. II, p. 316) gives this . 

 species from Sumatra and S c 1 a t e r (Proc. Z. S. L., 1863, p. 221) 

 from Borneo. It extends northwards into the Wellesley Pro- 

 vince, but does not appear to be equally common as at Malacca. 

 Young $ $ are at first quite of the colouring of the 2 $ ; those I 

 obtained in September were already changing their plumage, which, 

 however, does not become fully developed until the next year. 



