A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM N. E. SUMATRA. 89 



2 , Gambir, Deli, N". E. Sumatra, 9th December 1917 



[No. 846]. 

 4 £ , 6 9 , 1 3 , 2 imm., Polonia, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 

 loth May 1916— 29th March 1917 [Nos. 784, 705, 

 741, 20, 31, 94, 95, 96, 680, 191, 781]. 

 2 , No Label, 23rd May 1916. 

 9 , Tandjoog Slamat, Langkat, N. E. Sumatra, 15th 



February 1918 [No. 997]. 

 Wing, 2 110, 112, 108, 107, 113, 108, 115, 114; $ 109, 

 112, 108, 107, 109, 108 mm. 



This is the bird usually known as Merops sumatranus, 

 Raffles. Dr. Hartert has however proved that it had been 

 described as Merops viridis by Linnaeus from Java in 1758 

 which name has of course priority. 



58. Merops philippinus, Linn. 



Hartert, p. 202. 



2 , 3 9 , Polonia, Deli, N". E. Sumatra, 16th December 

 1916— 21st January 1917 [Nos. 654, 744, 636, 102]. 

 Wing, 2 130; $ 122, 126, 129 mm. 

 Probably migratory in Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, 

 certainly commoner in both countries in the winter months. 



59. Nyctiornis amicta(Temm.). 



Robinson and Kloss, p. 130 ; Hartert, p. 202. 



2 2,? Deli Toewa, Deli, X. E. Sumatra, 8th February 



1917— 6th April 1917 [No. 197-8; 324]. 

 2 $ imm., Polonia, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 1st July 1916 — 



2nd November 1916. 

 2, Boeloe, Deli, 1ST. E. Sumatra, 17th November 1917 



[No. 601]. 

 $ , Tandjong Slamat, Langkat, K. E. Sumatra, 20th 



February 1918 [No. 1006]. 

 Wing, 2 , 123, 126, 125, 127; 9, 122, 122 mm. 

 Common all over the forested districts of Sumatra, Bor- 

 neo and the Malay Peninsula and very constant in its charac- 

 ters. 



CAPRIMULGIDAE. 



60. Caprimulgus affinis, Horsf. 



Robinson and Kloss, p. 131. 

 2,2, Polonia, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 27th May— 8th 



Nov. 1916 [Nos. 793, 423, — ]. 

 $ , Gambir, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 9th December 1917 



[No. 844]. 

 Wing, 2 , 158 ; $ , 167, 163 mm. 

 Not found in the Malay Peninsula. 



61. Caprimulgus macrurus ambiguus, Hartert. 



Caprimulgus macrurus, Hartert, p. 204. 

 Caprimulgus macrurus anamesus (part) Oberholser Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 48, p. 595 (1915). 



U. A. Soc, No. 80, 1919. 



