76 A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM N. E. SUMATRA. 



TURNICIDAE. 



5. Turnix pugnax(Temm.). 



Salvd., Bull. Mus. Torino, XI, p. 12 (1896): Hartert, 

 loc. cit, p. 217; Stuart Baker, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 Bombay, p. 391 (1915). 



4 4,6$ Polonia, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 17th April 1916, 

 22nd April 1917 [Nob. 807, 472, 751, 683, 735, 302]. 



Wing, $ , 78, 79, 78, 78; 9 , 82, 81, 81, 85, 83, 87 mm. 



The rufous collar on the hind neck of the female is not 

 invariably present; in one specimen of the above series which 

 is unusually dark, it is almost entirely absent. All specimens 

 are much darker above than a series of the Malay Peninsula 

 form, Turnix p. plumbipes, Hodgs. 



It may here be mentioned that Stuart Baker (loc. cit.) 

 is in error in applying the name T. p. atrogularis, Eyton (P. 

 Z. S. 1839, p. 107) which was founded on a bird from Malacca, 

 to those from Formosa, China and South-eastern Shan States 

 for which if distinct the proper name is Turnix pugnax ros- 

 trata'Swinhoe (Ibis 1865, p. 543) founded on Formosan birds. 



TRERONIDAE. 



6. Butreron capeIIei(Temm.). 



Hartert. p. 216. 

 $ Deli Toewa, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 8th February 1917 



[No. 10]. 

 $ Toentoengan, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 24th December 



1917 [No. 881]. 

 $ Tandjong Slamat, Langkat, N. E. Sumatra, 16th 



February 1918 [No. 1025]. 



Wing, 192, 193, 197 mm. 



Evidently commoner in Sumatra than it is in the Malay 

 Peninsula; we found it being trapped in large numbers in the 

 Padang lowlands near Indrapura in February 1914 though 

 we obtained no specimens ourselves. 



7. Sphenocercus korthaIsi(Temm.). 



Eobinson and Kloss, p. 103. 

 2 Brastaai, Simeloengan, N. E. Sumatra, 18th June 



1917 [No. 505]. 

 Wing, 2 154 mm. 



A characteristic montane bird rarely found below 3,000 

 feet in Java and Sumatra: replaced in the Malay Peninsula 

 by the somewhat doubtfully distinct Sp. robinsoni. 



8. Osmotreron oIax(Temm.). 



Hartert, t. c. p. 216. 



$ Laboean Deli, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 24th February, 

 1917 [No. 66]. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



