22 BIRDS OF THE LARUT HILLS. 
low as 2,000 feet, Avery active restless bird, always on the 
move, Constantly in the jungle something darts past one with 
a whirr, and only its characteristic sharp squeak enables one to 
recognize the spider-hunter. (4.) 
¢2. Dicceeum ignipectus. (Hodgs.) 
Fire- breasted Flowerpecker. I shot one at 4,000 feet. 
Probably common, but it is impossible to identify these tiny 
birds with certainty on tall trees. (1.) 
_ 78. Prionochilus ignicapillus. (Hyt.) 
Crimson-breasted Flowerpecker. F airly common up to 
4000 feet. (1.) 
74, Prionochilus maculatus. (Temm.) 
The White throated Flowerpecker. Met with on the 
higher parts of the hill. (1.) 
75. Serilophus rothschildi. (Hartert and Butler.) 
Rothschild’s Broadbill. The discovery of this very beauti- 
ful little broadbill—the third known species of its genus—made 
a red-letter day for a collector. I first came across it at 2,500 
feet. Two little greybreasted birds were sitting side by side 
on a tall tree and, not being able to make them out I fired at 
them and killed both. The birds fell into a dense tangle of 
thorny rattan, and at the end of half-an-hour’s search I was just 
giving up in disgust when I found one of them. Seeing at a 
glance that it was a novelty and a very beautiful ove, I renewed 
my search, cutting away the abominably thorny shoots of the 
rattan one by one with my hunting. knife, and eventually suc- 
ceeded in finding the other. 1 subsequently came upon a party 
of these broadbills at 3,500 feet. They were engaged in quietly 
searching the foliage of a large-leaved tree for insects, and 
every now and then uttering a clear little whistle like ‘‘ pee-u.” 
Once or twice I saw one hover at the extremity of a bough to 
catch an insect on the outermost leaves, something after the 
manner of a Pertcocrotus. On the whole their actions struck me 
as rather sluggish. [ quote the description of this new species 
rom the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, No. LIV. 
