BIRDS. 



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In addition to the birds collected by Mr. Robinson there is an 

 adult male in the British Museum, procured by Mr. Wray at G-unong 

 Batu Puteh. I have made this specimen the typ« of the present 

 species. 



[The bird shot on the 4th July, though most certainly a male by 

 dissection, is in the plumage of the adult female. It has the iris brown, 

 bill black, feet brownish, claws pale. 



Another specimen, which is changing from the brown plumage of 

 the female to the slate-blue of the adult male, has the iris hazel, bill 

 black, base of lower mandible pinkish, feet lead-colour. Found in 

 parties of two or three in damp gullies among low but thick brushwood 



The Nepal- short- wing is confined to the higher mountains of the 

 Malay Peninsula and is decidedly rare. Specimens have been obtained 

 in the Larut Hills near Taiping and at Telom in the Batang Padang 

 mountains in South Perak, but I have never seen or obtained speci- 

 mens in Selangor. — H. C. R.] 



47. MYIOPHONEUS DICRORHYNCHUS, Salvad. 



Myiophoneus dicrorhynchus, Shaiye, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mns., vii., 

 p. 10 (1883). 



Myiophoneus, sp. inc., Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1887, p. 436. 



a. m. Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur. 9th March, 1905. 



b. imm. Gnnong Tahan. 5,300-6,000 ft. 26th June, 1905. (No. 214). 



The immature bird was met with in a narrow mountain stream. 

 48. MACRONUS PTILOSUS, Jard. and Selb. 



Macronus ptilosus, Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 275. 



a. m. Gunong Tahan. 3,300 ft. 15th June, 1905. (No. 132). 



b. mi. Kuala Teku, Tahan River. 500-1,500 ft. 2nd Aug., 1905. (No. 470). 

 C., d. w., /. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. August and Septem- 

 ber. (Nos. 540, 652). 



Iris, brown ; orbital ring, silvery ; gular, purplish-cobalt; bill, black ; 

 feet, grey. 



19. CYANODERMA ERYTHROPTERA (B.LYTH). 



Mixornis erythroptera, Sharpe, Gat. Birds, Brit. Mus., vii., p. 580 

 (1883). 



a. m. Kuala Teku, Tahan River. 500 ft. 1st August, 1905. (No. 464). 



b. /. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. 5th Sept., 1905. (No. 658). 



Iris, chestnut ; bill, black, plumbeous at the base ; bare skin round 

 eye, cobalt ; skin on sides of neck, greenish- cobalt ; feet, yellowish horn- 

 colour. 



50. STACHYRHIDOPSIS CHRYSJEA (HoDCxS.). 



Stachyrhidopsis chrysaea, Grant, p. 81. 



a.-g. «?., /. Gunong Tahan, from 4,000 ft. to nearly the summit. June and 

 July, 1905. (Nos. 43, 52, 97, 287, 316, 374, 375). 



