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151. SURNXCULUS LUGUBRIS (Hoksf.). 

 Surniculus lugubris, Grant, p. 106. 



a.-d. m. et w.,/,imm. Koala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. August 

 1905. (Nos. 552, 586, 587, 596). 



Iris, dark brown ; skin beneath the eye, dull greenish ; gape, 

 orange ; bill and feet, black. 



Three of the four specimens are quite immature, the feathers of 

 the crown, mantle, wing-coverts and undersurface having large 

 subterminal spots of white and with the white nuchal spot more 

 marked than in the adult. 



[The species frequents low secondary jungle. — H. C. R.] 



132. HIEROCOCCYX FUGAX (IIorsf.). 



Hierococcyx fugax, Shelley, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus., xix., p. 236 (1891).. 



a. /. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. 19th August, 1905. (No. 537), 



Iris, orange ; gape, lower mandible, tip of upper mandible and 

 orbital skin, chrome ; middle part of upper mandible, black ; tarsi, rich 

 chrome. 



[The note of this bird, which may be rendered by the syllables 

 ka-ka-hakalca, puzzled me for a long time ; they were only heard just 

 before and for a short time after dusk and the natives insisted that 

 they were uttered by a hawk evidently confusing the bird with the 

 Lang sewa (Accipiter virgatus) to which it bears an extraordinary 

 resemblance. — H. C. R.] 



TROGONID.E. 



13:3. PYROTROGOX ERYTHROCEPHALTJS (Gould). 

 Pyrotrogon erythrocephalus, Grant, p. 106. 

 ft. m. Gunong Ulu Kali. 4,800-5,800 ft. 5th February, 1906. 



134. PYROTROGOX EASTJMBA (Raffl.). 



P\ rotrogon kasumba, Hartert, Nov. Zool., ix., p. 544 (1902). 



a.-d. »».,/. Kuala Tcku, Tahau River. 500 ft. August, 1905. (Nos. 498, 

 505, 509, 512). 



Iris, reddish-chestnut ; culmen and genys, black ; remainder of bill, 

 purplish-cobalt : orbital space, purplish-cobalt ; feet, bluish lead-colour. 



185. PYROTROGOX ORESKIOS (TBMM.). 



Harpactes oreskios, Grant, p. 106. 



a, b. fn.et m.imm. Gunong Tahan (6th Camp). 3,000 ft. June, 1905. (No. 

 49). 



Iris, brown; bill and orbital skin, purplish-cobalt; feet, dark dull 

 lake. 



[The habits of all the species of Trogons are very similar. They 

 are never found out of virgin forest and are singularly sluggish and 



