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TAHAN EXPEDITION. 



63. POMATORHINUS WRAYI, Suarpe. 

 Poniatorhinus wrayi, Sharjje, P.Z.S., 1887, p. 437. 



a. m. Gunong Tahan (8th Camp). 5,300-6,000 ft. 9th July, 1905. (No. 334). 



b. /. „ (9thCamp). 5,100-7,000 ft. 16th July, 1905. (No. 379). 



The female (spec, b.) has the grey feathers on the sides of the 

 breast of a darker tint than the male (spec, a.), which latter agrees 

 well in this and in other respects with the type- specimens in the 

 British Museum. 



Iris, brown ; bill, black, corneous at tip ; feet, dull lead-colour, with 

 a tinge of green. 



[Seen on low shrubs, amongst thick and tangled undergrowth, at 

 the edges of streams. Widely distributed throughout the higher 

 mountains of the Peninsula, but rare everywhere. — H. C. R.] 



64. TROCHALOPTERON PENINSULAS, Sharpe. 



Trochalopteron peninsula?, Hartert, Nov. ZooL, ix., p, 562 (1902). 



a.-o. m. f f. Gunong Tahan (6th Camp). 5,300-6,000 ft. June and July, 1905. 



(Nos. 161, 162, 168, 169, 217, 218, 230, 231, 240, 310, 336, 339, 342). 

 p., q. /. Gunong Ulu Kali. 4,800-5,800 ft. January and February, 1906. 



Iris, yellowish ; bill, black ; feet, brownish-black, much paler brown 

 in the female. 



[In the great central valley of the Gunong Tahan range this bird is 

 very abundant, though it does not descend below about 5,000 ft. It 

 was found usually in pairs, but occasionally in parties of four and five 

 and frequented the low brushwood along the sides of streams and 

 gullies. It was often seen on or near the ground and never at any 

 height in the trees. The note, like that of other members of the genus, 

 is a clear, melodious whistle ; but, when alarmed, the bird gives 

 . utterance to a very discordant cackle. As regards the distribution of 

 the species in the Peninsula, it is common everywhere in the mountains 

 of the main range as far south as the southern border of Selangor ; and 

 it also occurs in the Larut Hills in North Perak, where, however, I 

 am informed that it is very much scarcer. 



The series of fourteen birds from Gunong Tahan is astonishingly 

 uniform, and there appears to be no sexual difference. One specimen, 

 which from the character of the plumage appears to be slightly im- 

 mature, differs from the rest in the absence of the grey occipital patch 

 and in having the feathers of the mantle slightly browner. — H. C. R.] 



65. EUPETES MACROCERCUS, Temm. 



Eupetes macrocerus, Hartert, Nov. Zool, ix., p. 561 (1902). 



a. m. Gunong Tahan. 3,300 ft. 5th June, 1905. (No. 48). 



b. f. Kuala Teku, Tahan liiver. 500 ft. August, 1905. (No. 511). 



Iris, brown; bare skin on sides of neck, silvery blue; bill, black; 

 feet, lead -grey. 



