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(relics of the old jungle) on the Changi side of the island; but 
they were hard to shoot, nearly always flying at a great height 
and very fast, skimming close over the tree-tops, and uttering their 
shrill cries. When they settled, it was generally on the topmost 
boughs of an enormous tree, where they were well out of gunshot. 
It is easy to identify them, even at a distance, by their charac- 
teristic flight and long pointed tails. On 21st July, 1877, I shot 
one out of a flock of about fifteen, on Pulau Tekong, an island near 
the mouth of the Johor river. 
Loricutts Ga.eutus (Linn.). The Malay Lorikeet. 
A common cage-bird in all the settlements, prized on account of 
its gaudy colours and the ridiculous way it climbs about the wires 
of its cage, often hanging head downwards. During December, I 
came across a small party of them on Pulau Battam, a large thickly- 
wooded island near Singapore. 
Iyneipicus variecatvs (Wagl.). The Grey-headed Pigmy 
Woodpecker. 
One August afternoon I was collecting Honey-suckers in a 
eocoa-nut plantation on the Bukit Timah road, Singapore, when a 
small bird flew past, and, settling on a dead cocoa-nut tree, com- 
menced running up it and searching for insects. On shooting it, 
I found I had got a tiny Woodpecker, and put it down as I. cani- 
capillus of Blyth, until Mr. Davison pointed out that, instead of 
the whole head being grey, the forehead only was of that colour. 
Length 5 inches, tarsus 4 inch; irides brown; legs dull-green ; 
upper parts dull-brown, whitish on the rump, and banded with 
white; beneath dirty white, streaked longitudinally with dull- 
brown ; head and cheeks dull-brown, forehead light-brown ; streak 
over eye extending to ear-coverts, and another from gape, pure 
white: on each side of the back of the head is a narrow but very 
bright orange streak. 
HEMICIRCUS soRDIDUsS (Eyt.). 
My specimen of this heart-spotted Woodpecker was shot on 
Gunong Pulai, Johor, on 5th September, 1879. 
MEIGLYPTES TRISTIS (Horsf.). 
I saw, but never shot, this Woodpecker in Pérak. 
Tiga JAVANENSIS (Ljung.). 
