28 BIRDS OF THE LARUT HILLS. 
for a foothold beside it, by the tip of the wingfeathers and hold 
it hanging thus for several seconds, (2.) 
98. Macropteryx longipennis (Rafinesque.) 
The Malayan Crested Swift. 1 occasionally noticed it 
hawking over the tops of the jungle up to nearly 5,000 feet. 
99. Macropteryx comata. (Blyth.) 
The Tufted Tree-Swift. Seen at 2,000 feet, but not as 
numerous as in the low country. 
100. Caprimulgus indicus jotaka. (Temm.) 
The Jungle Nightjar. A few pairs frequented the Tea 
Garden clearing (at 2,000 feet) and used to hawk along the 
jungle edge at dusk. I shot a pair. (2.) 
C. macrurus and Lyncornis temminckt, so common in the low 
country, I neither saw nor heard on the hills. 
101. Harpactes erythrocephalus. (Gould.) 
The Red-headed Trogon. Met with several times at 3,500 
feet or so. (1.) 
102. Harpactes duvauceli. (Temm.) 
The Red-rumped Trogon. I obtained one very young ex- 
ample at 3,500 feet. . (1.) 
103. Zanclostomus javanicus. (Horsf.) 
The Lesser Red-billed Malkoha. 
Seems to me to range higher up the hills than the other 
birds of this group. It is not uncommon at 3,500 feet. It is 
very partial to the big wingless females of one of the larger 
stick insects, for which it searches the branches so systematic- 
ally that the insect’s wonderful likeness to a dead twig avails it 
nothing. Having pecked and bruised the mantis into a state of 
helplessness, the bird proceeds to pull off the strong spiny legs 
one by one and then swallows the long body head first. I have 
taken 3 of these insects, 7 or 8 inches long and nearly as thick as 
one’s little finger from the stomach of one of these Malkohas. (1.) 
