138 BIRDS FROM PERAK. 
white bases ; quills below dusky blackish, white along the inner 
edge. Total length 5 inches, culmeno.7, wing 2.0, tail 198 oy 
middle feathers 2.6, tarsus 0.5. 
Arachnothera magna, Hodgs.; Shelley, Monogr. Nect. pl. 
1 a 
“No. 26. Irides brown. Feet and legs bright orange ; 
bill black. Female much larger than the male. A very active 
bird, with a loud harsh note.” 
Arachnothera longirostris (Lath.); Shelley, t. c., pl.-rma: 
Hume, Str. F., 1879, p. 55; Kelham, t.c.,p. 501; Salyageueues 
Pp. 204: 
“No. 25 —Irides brown. I only saw these spider-hunters 
once, when a large party of them were fluttering on the tops , 
of some small trees, making a continual chirping.” 
Dicxum ignipectus (Hodgs.); Sharpe, Cat. B. x, p. 41. 
“No. 49.—._ Irides brown.” 
A specimen in bad condition, but apparently identical with 
others from the Himalayas. 
Deudrophila azurea (Less.); Salvad. t. c. p. 211. 
“No. 55.—-?. Irides white; skin round eyes white; legs 
and bill blue-grey. Sexes alike. This pretty little nuthatch 
frequents the densest parts of the jungle, usually in the ravi- 
nes, and seems to prefer the trunks of the largest trees to 
- hunt for insects, &c. Is seen singly or in small parties of 
three or four.’ 
Count Salvadori finds fault with Gray’s figure of this spe- 
cies, and says that the feet in the dried skins from Sumatra 
were greenish, not yellow; but it 1s probable that they became 
yellow in time, and certainly our Java skins have yellow legs; 
but a Timor specimen has them dark, like the Pérak bird. 
Both the last-named specimens are duller blue on the back 
than the Java specimens. 
Zosterops auriventer, Hume; Sharpe, Cat. B. ix. p., 163. 
“No. 43.— 2. Irides yellow-brown.” 
Motacilla melanope, Pall.; Sharpe, Cat. B. x. p. 497 
(1885). 
Calobates melanope, Hume, Str. F., 1879, pp. 65, 161; 
Salvad., t: ¢., p. 236. 
