114 ON A COLLECTION OF BIKDS FKOM N. E. SUMATRA. 



must stand. Dr. Hartert was apparently ignorant of this when 

 quite recently he restricted hypogrammica of Mueller to 

 Sumatra and gave the name intensior to Bornean birds. 



Thus the birds in each of the large Malaysian land masses 

 have got names of their own : — 



1. Anthreptes macularia. Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. 



Bengal, XI (1842) p. 107. Malay Peninsula. 

 [Settlement of Malacca]. 



2. Nectarinia hypo gram mica. Mueller. Xaturl. G-eseh. 



Land-en Volkenk (1843) p. 173. Sumatra. 



3. Anthreptes hypo gram mica intensior. Hartert, Bull. 



Brit. Orn. Club, XXXVIII (191?) p. 27. 

 Borneo [Balingean, Sarawak]. 



We, however, after comparison of the above specimen with 

 a pair from Borneo, can find no difference between the birds 

 of the two islands and must therefore regard A, h. intensior 

 as not fully established 



Differences between the island birds and those of the 

 Malay Peninsula are. in our opinion on the material available 

 (and it should be noted that at present we have only four 

 examples of the former though many of the latter) lacking, 

 or so slight that we are not inclined to accept any distinction. 

 (Vide Ibis, 1918, v. 592). 



137. Anthreptes malaccensis maIaccensis(Seop.). Antea, 



p. 130. 



2 <J , Pantai Tjermin, Serdang, X. E. Sumatra, 6th and 

 9th January, 1919 [Xos. 133(5, Ti. 



Wing, $ , 66; 2,67 mm. 



138. Arachnothera longirostra longirostra(Lath.). Antea, 



p. 131. 



1 $ , 1 2 , Toentoengan Estate, Deli, X. E. Sumatra, 1st 

 ' and 20th November, 1918. 



1 $ , 1 2 , Bandar Baroe, Deli, X. E. Sumatra, 17 and 21st 

 January, 1919 [Xos. 1148, 1193. 1379, 1406]. 



Wing, $ , 67, 67; 2 60 (imm.), 72 mm. 



139. Arachnothera flavigaster(Eyton). Antea, p. 131. 



1^,12, Toentoengan Estate, Deli, X. E. Sumatra, 17th 

 October, 1918. 



1^,1$, Bandar Baroe, Deli, X. E. Sumatra, 4th August, 

 1918 and 23rd January, 1919. 



Wing, $, 95, 98; 2, 96, 105 mm. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



