A COLLECTION OF BIEDS FEOM N. E. SUMATKA. lol 



Hesse (Ornith. Monatsb. XIX, p. 183 (1911) has 

 separated the Sumatran and Bornean form from the Malayan 

 as having the wing smaller, 82-86.5 mm. against 83.5-91 mm. 

 on the typical form under the name Hemicercus sordidus 

 coccometopus, Eeichenb.f 



Malay Peninsula specimens measure as follows : — 



Wing, $ , 84, 83.5, 81, 84.5, 88 ; ? , 89, 85, 88, 85 mm. 



The differences therefore do just exist though whether 

 such minute differences should be recognised even subspeci- 

 fically is a very open point. 



104. Sasia abnormis everetti, Hargitt. 



$ , Polonia, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 20th April 1916 [No. 



808]. 

 $ , Tandjong Slamat, Langkat, N. E. Sumatra, 18th 



February 1918 [No. 1024]. 

 Wing, $ , 48.5, 48 mm. 



Agreeing with Bornean, Sumatran and Malayan speci- 

 mens. We have not yet seen good typical birds from Java. 



PITTIDAE. 



105. Pitta cucullata, Hartl. 



6 , Toentoengan, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 18th December 

 1917 [No. 860], "feet grey, bill dark corneous" 

 (Van Heyst). 

 Wing, 110 mm. 



P. muelleri, Bp., a form with the head entirely black, 

 common in Borneo, is also recorded from Sumatra by Hagen 

 and Wallace. It is however not improbably the intermediate 

 race, P. bangkana, Schlegel, in which the feathers of the head 

 are black with more or less clearly defined chestnut tips. We 

 cannot separate the present specimen from a large series of 

 Malayan birds. 



106. Pitta cyanoptera, Temm. 



Pitta moluccensis, Hartert, p. 206. 

 6 , Deli Toewa, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 9th March 1917 



[No. 118]. 

 2, Gambir, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 8th December 1917 



[No. 841]. 

 Wing, 118, 112. 



A common bird at certain times along both coasts of the 

 Straits of Malacca apparently migrating across them. 



EURYLAEMIDAE. 



107. Psarisomus dalhousiae psittacinus, (S. Muell.). 



Robinson and Kloss, p. 149. 



2 $ , 4 9 , Bandar Baroe, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 19th April 

 1917_5th June 1917— 20th January 1918 [Nos. 

 t Scans. Picinae, p. 401, pi. DCLVI, figs. 4364-5, $ $ ad (1854). 

 K. A. Soc, No. 80, 1919. 



