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TA HAN EXPEDITION. 



somewhat greyer mantle, greyish-olive rump and tail and in having 

 the middle of the abdomen decidedly yellow and the long under tail- 

 coverts washed with cinnamon. In the two last-named characters it 

 resembles S. korthalsi (Temm.) from Sumatra and Java, but it entirely 

 lacks the rufous tinge across the breast, which is so characteristic of 

 the male of that species. 



Iris, pale blue ; outer ring, pink; bill, purplish-mauve, greenish horn- 

 colour at the base ; feet, lake ; soles, yellowish. 



Total length : ca., 12.0 in. ; wing, 6.5 in. ; tail, 4.9 in. ; tarsus, 0.9 in. 



Adult female. —Very similar to the female of 8. permagnus, but 

 much smaller and with the middle of the belly decidedly yellow. 

 H Total length : ca., 11.0 in. ; wing, 6.4 in. ; tail, 4.4 in. ; tarsus, 0.9 in. 



Three less adult male specimens have the olive-green of the head, 

 neck and breast less bright than the adult, the maroon shoulder patch 

 much 'smaller and the long under tail-coverts yellowish- white with 

 only the faintest tinge of cinnamon. 



a.-d. m. Gunong Tahan (6th Camp). 3,300 ft. lst-8th June, 1905. (Nos. 

 12, 35, 36, 63). 



e. /. Gunong Ulu Kali. 4,800-5,800 ft. 9th February, 1906. 



[This fine Pigeon was apparently not very uncommon on the lower 

 slopes of Gunong Tahan, though I only saw it once myself and never 

 shot a specimen. My Dyaks told me that it was found singly feeding 

 on the tops of tall trees and was very wary. The single specimen that 

 I saw myself was flying at dusk across the ridge on which our camp 

 was situated. 



No other Fruit-Pigeon occurs on the mountain, nor did we meet 



with Cavjiophaga badia. — H. C. JR.] 



166. TRERON NIPALENSTS (Hodgs.). 

 Treron nipalensis, Grant, p. 122. 



a.-d. m., f. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. August, 1905. (Nos. 

 590, 594, 598, 599). 



Iris, orange-red; orbital skin, apple- green ; bill, greenish horn-colour, 

 base of the lower mandible, crimson ; feet, lake. 



[Large flocks of this species, numbering sixty or seventy individuals, 

 were met with at Kuala Tembeling, feeding on the fruit of a very large fig 

 tree in company with Anthraeoceros convexus and numerous smaller 

 birds — H. C. R.] 



TURNICIM]. 



107. TURNIX TAIGOOR (Sykes). 



Tumix taigoor, Sykes, Grant, p. 122. 



a. m. Kuala Tembeling, Pahang River. 200 ft. 9th September, 1905. 

 (No. 650). 



[In the open grazing lands along the banks of the Pahang and 

 the lower reaches of the Tembeling Pavers both Bustard- and Button- 



