26 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds from the 
Coll.), a skin from Native Sikkim (Mandelli Coll.), and one 
from Malacca registered as spm. h of Baza magnirostris , 
regarding which there was originally some confusion, 
cleared up by Dr. Sharpe Ibis/ 1893, p. 555). There 
is also an adult stuffed specimen, from Larnt, Perak, in the 
Selangor Museum. It is obvious that these eleven specimens 
all belong to one species, though, as is almost invariably 
the case, the Sikkim bird is somewhat larger than those 
from the Malay Peninsula and from Sumatra. 
Of the nine skins now before us, five are sexed as male by 
the collectors, of which one is evidently immature, while four 
are marked female, of which one may be considered as a 
young bird. 
It may be of interest to describe the plumages of these nine 
birds in some detail, the present series being larger than any 
hitherto got together. 
a. Fully adult male. Sungei Kilim, Pulau Langkawi, 
March 22nd, 1909. 
Crown and crest uniform black-grey on the lores, the 
crest slightly tipped with white; sides of the face grey, the 
feathers with narrow rufous edges; sides of the throat, 
feathers above the eve, and a nuchal collar rufous buff, the 
latter with broad black centres to the feathers; a median 
gular stripe black, extreme point of the chin grey; upper 
breast dull brown, many of the feathers with darker bases 
and shaft-stripes. Remainder of the under surface, including 
the under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries, 
evenly barred with white and liver-brown, the latter shading 
into blackish on the flanks. Mantle and shoulders blackish 
brown, glossed with purplish, rest of the wing-coverts paler 
brown; flight-feathers regularly barred with black and brown 
on their external, with black and white on their internal 
aspect. Tail with four dark and four light bars aud a narrow 
pale terminal tip. 
Wing 12*8 ; tail 9T ; tarsus 1*65 ; bill from gape 1*3 ; 
crest 2*3 inches. 
b , c. Somewhat less adult males than “a” 
Chong, Interior of Trang, North Malay Peninsula, 17th 
and 19th December, 1909. 
