BIRDS FROM PERAK. 137 
“No. 50. g. Irides light brown. Only seen in dense 
jungle.” 
Identical with Javan specimens. 
Sutoria macultcollis (Moore); Sharpe, Cat. B. vii., p. 218 
1883). 
e M. 51. 9. Irides light brown. Shot ina clearing at 3,300 
feet.2 
Pteruthius zeralatus, Tickell; Hume and Davison, Str. 
Leavis pe 30S (1370). 
“No. 34. g¢. Irides brown. This bird is fairly common on 
the higher parts of the hills.” 
Slightly smaller than the typical P. xralatus (wing 3.1), 
but not specifically separable. P. cameranot , of Salvadori 
(t. c., p. 232) is undoubtedly the same. 
LEthopyga Wray?, sp. n. (Plate xxxvii, fig. 2). 
“No. 41. g@. Irides dark brown. This honey-sucker is 
very plentiful in the jungle, on the tops of the hills, and in 
the clearings. I have not observed it lower than 3,000 feet. 
There is another species of honey-sucker, but I was not able 
to get a specimen of it.” 
This species is the Malayan representative of “thopyga 
sanguinipectus, from which it may be diistinguished by its 
black, non-metallic throat and fore-neck. 
Adult male——General colour above dark crimson on the 
mantle and back; scapulars black; on the rump a patch of 
sulphur-yellow; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills black- 
ish, a little browner on the edge of the latter; upper tail-cov- 
erts metallic violet-blue ; tail-feathers black, the long centre 
ones externally metallic violet-blue ; crown of head metallic 
violet-blue, with a purple reflection ; lores, sides of face, and 
ear-coverts black; cheeks metallic blue, forming a mousta- 
chial streak ; throat, fore neck and chest velvety black, the 
sides of the latter dark crimson enclosed by black; breast 
abdomen, sides of body and flanks pale olive-greenish, yellower 
on the centre of the breast, which is also streaked with black, 
and just below the velvety black of the upper breast are some 
tiny longitudinal streaks of scarlet; on the sides of the body 
and flanks a tuft of pale yellow; thighs and under tail-coverts 
like the breast ; under wing coverts and axillaries yellow, with 
