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



The Sumatran specimens seem rather whiter beneath than 

 Malayan and Bornean birds with the flanks less washed with 

 grey. 



149. Microtarsus meIanocephalus(Gm.). 



Robinson and Kloss, p. 178; Hartert, p. 211. 



3 £ , 9 , Tandjong Morawa, Serdang, N. E. Sumatra, 27th 



March— 23rd April 1917 [Nos. 185-6, 304-5]. 

 $ , Deli Toewa, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 11th March 1917 



['No. 142]. 

 Wing, $ , 78, 76, 78, 75 ; 2,76 mm. 

 A common low-country bird very constant in its charac- 

 ters. Females have the middle of the belly and lower tail- 

 coverts very much duller yellow than in the male. 



150. Criniger sumatranus, Wardl. Rams. 



Criniger gutturalis, Hartert, p. 210. 

 Robinson and Kloss, p. 178. 



4 $ , 5 2, Bandar Baroe, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 11th April 



—9th June 1917, 20th— 24th January 1918 [Nos. 

 243, 385-6, 449-50, 476, 950-2]. 

 Deli Toewa, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 28th April 1917 [No. 



328]. 

 Wing, $ , 109, 107, 113, 104; 2, 106, 106, 112, 103 mm. 

 Allied to C. tephrogenys (Jard. and Selby) of the Malay 

 Peninsula and C. ruficrissus (Sharpe) of Borneo but quite 

 distinct from both. 



151. Alophoixus phaeocephalus(HartL). 



Criniger yhaeoceplialus, Hartert, p. 210. 

 $ , 2 , Tandjong Morawa, Serdang, N. E. Sumatra, 18th 



March 1917 [Nos. 171-2]. 

 S, Deli Toewa, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 28th April 1917 



[ISTo. 327]. 

 Wing, 2 , 86, 90 ; 2 , 94 mm. 



Bornean, Sumatran and Malayan specimens exhibit no 

 differences whatever on comparison. 



152. Tricholestes criniger (A. Hay). 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. VI, p. 89 (1881). 



3 $ , 2 2, Toentoengan, Deli, NV E. Sumatra, 13th Dec. 



1917— 10th February 1918 [Nos. 854, 803, 895-7, 



987]. 

 Wing, $ , 79, 76, 80 mm. 



153. Trachycomus ochrocephalus(Gm.). 



Robinson and Kloss, p. 179; Hartert, p. 210. 

 2$ . No exact locality, 5th— 7th May 1916. 

 2$, 2, Toentoengan, Deli, K. E. Sumatra, 15th Nov. — 



16th December 1917 [Nos. 597, 619, 859].. 

 Wing, $, 113, 117, 117, 116; 2, 117 mm. 



R. A. Soc, No. 80, 1919. 



