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2. Chrgsophlegma mystacale, Salvad. 



Among some miscellaneous bird-skins in the Museum I 

 recently discovered a woodpecker collected by Dr. Dun- 

 cker on the Semangko Pass, where the trunk road to 

 Pahang crosses the main range at a height of 2700 feet. 

 The specimen was shot on the 29th May 1901 and is sexed 

 female, though this is probably an error of the native 

 skinner. It appears to belong to a species described 

 by Count Salvadori as Chrysophlegma mystacale, from 

 collections made in the Padang mountains, West Sumatra, 

 by the famous Italian Botanist Beccari. Subsequently it 

 was obtained by Carl Bock, a Swedish Collector in the 

 employ of Lord Walden in much the same locality, and 

 later on by Dr. H. 0. Forbes at Hoodjoong, in the moun- 

 tains of the Palembang Residency, further to the south. 

 Outside this very limited district I can find no records of 

 its occurrence, and it is somewhat unexpected to find it 

 reappearing in the mountains of the Peninsula, which 

 possess a distinct species {Chrysophlegma wrayi) of their 

 own. 



General colour above bright olive green, darker on the 

 head and crown, the latter tinged with rufous ; nuchal 

 crest, golden yellow. Beneath, greyish olive, darker on 

 the chest and becoming almost black on the throat ; 

 chin with a slight rufos tinge. Sides of the head dark 

 greenish grey, malar stripe very pale yellow. Primaries 

 black, broadly barred with rufous, the innermost crimson 

 on their outer webs exteriorly. Tail feathers black, the 

 outermost with an oily lustre beneath Total length : — 11 

 inches ; wing 5. 4. 



3. Ptilocercus lowii, Crray. 



Pen-tailed Tree Shrew. 



The occurrence of this small mammal is of even greater 

 interest than that of the preceding as it adds to the 

 Peninsular list a genus that has hitherto been supposed to 

 be specially characteristic of the Bornean group of islands. 

 But even in Sarawak where the species was originally 



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