96 ON A COLLECTION OF BIEDS FEOM N. E. SUMATRA. 



The mantle also of the male is too red and is not sufficiently 

 differentiated from the nape and occiput which are deep black. 

 However there is no doubt that the Korinchi and East Coast 

 birds are conspecific: there is not yet sufficient material to 

 attempt subspecific distinction, the bird listed above being only 

 the seventh known example. 



51. Gecinus vittatus vittatus(VieilL). Antea, p. 96. 



de Beaufort and de Buss}-, p. 255. 



Picus vittatus vittatus Stuart Baker, Ibis, 1919, p. 189. 



1 9 , Toentoengan, Deli, X. E. Sumatra, 17th October, 

 1918 [No. 1140]. 



Wing, $ , 122 mm. 



We cannot admit that Gecinus vittatus vittatus and 

 Gecinus viridanus stand in subspecific relationship to each 

 other; nor that Gecinus v. eisenhoferi,. of which we have seen 

 many specimens, has anything to do with G. viridanus or is 

 other than a larger northern race of G. vittatus. Though 

 Yieillot's original description had no locality attached (we 

 have not ourselves been able to verify the reference) Kloss has 

 already fixed the type locality as Java (Ibis, 1918, p. 105) and 

 Mr. Stuart Baker is not at liberty to transfer it to Malacca. 



52. Brachylophus puniceus observandus(Hartert). Antea, 



p. 97. 



1 $ , Toentoengan, Deli, X. E. Sumatra. 1st November, 



1918 [No. 1146]. 



Wing, 9 , 123 mm. 



53. Brachylophus chlorolophus vanheysti, Robinson and 



Kloss. Antea, p. 97. 



1 $ , Bandar Baroe, Deli. N. E. Sumatra, 19th January, 



1919 [No. 1361]. 



Wing, S , 125 ; bill from gape 28 mm. 

 This bird which is fully adult serves to confirm the dis- 

 tinctness of the Sumatran race, which is now known from five 



specimens. 



54. Callolophus miniatus maIaccensis(Lath.). 



Stuart Baker, Ibis, 1919, p. 193. 



Chrysophlegma miniatum malaccense, antea, p. 99. 



[ $ ] Toentoengan, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 7th October, 

 1918 [No.^1128]. 



Wing. S . 119 mm. (worn). 



We may here remark that Kloss's type of C. m. perlutus 

 (Ibis, 1918, p. 110), not C. m. perlatus as quoted by Stuart 

 Baker, was a fully adult male though a broken type in the 

 text renders this obscure. 



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