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



Mixornis qularis, Hartert, p. 213. 



6 , Tandjong Morawa, Serdang, N. E. Sumatra, 12th 



May 1917 [No. 360]. 

 $ ? Toentocngan, Deli, X. E. Sumatra, 18th — 22nd 



November 1917 [Nos. 607, 630]. 



1 spm. No label. 

 Wing, 58, 58, 55, 59 mm. 



Agree well with other specimens from West Sumatra and 

 are just separable by their heavier striping and richer yellow 

 colouring beneath from birds from Malacca and the extreme 

 south of the Peninsula (M. r. pileata, Blyth). 



180. Arrenga castaneus(Wardl. Earns.). 



Eobinson and Kloss, p. 197. 



2 «£ , 2 $ , Bandar Baroe, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 20th— 21st 



May 1917 [Nos. 400-1, 410, 411]. 



Wing, $, 143, 141; $, 138, 135 mm. 



Apparently fairly common throughout the mountainous 

 districts of Sumatra as, besides the specimens enumerated in 

 the paper quoted above, we have received specimens form 

 Benkoelen and Palembang and from Mt. Ophir (Talaman) 

 north of Padang, collected by Mr. E. Jacobson. 



181. Arrenga melanura, Salvad. 



Eobinson and Kloss, p. 198. 



2 $ , 2 , Bandar Baroe, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 24th— 31st 



May 1917 [Nos. 418, 417, 430]. 

 $ imm., Brastagi, Simeloengan, X. E. Sumatra, 20th 



June 1917 [No. 501]. 

 2 $ , 2 $ , Tengkeh, Simeloengan, N. E. Sumatra 24th — 



28th June 1918 [Nos. 1038, 1040-2]. 

 Wing of adults, 127, 124, 128, 124, 125 mm. 



182. Myiophoneus flavirostris dicrorhynchus, Salvad. 



Eobinson and Kloss, p. 199. 

 $ , Bandar Baroe, Deli, N. E. Sumatra, 21st May 1917 



[No. 420]. 

 Wing, 158; bill from gape, 43 mm. 



183. Mesia laurinae, Salvad. 



Eobinson and Kloss, p. 203. 

 $, Brastagi, Simeloengan, N. E. Sumatra, 19th June 



1917 l^o. 499]. 

 Wing, 76 mm. 



A very handsome bird markedly different in its crimson 

 throat and breast from the allied Mesia argentauris of the 

 Himalayas and Malayan Hills. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



