34 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds from the 
79. Carcineutes pulchellus. 
Carcineutes pulchellus (Horsf.) ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 198. 
Common in dry jungle. 
80. Halcyon coromandus. 
Halcyon coromandus (Lath.) ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 217. 
Always rather rare in the Peninsula, but commonest in the 
coastal districts. We have a male from Terutau dated 
February 1909. 
81. Halcyon smyrnensis. 
Halcyon smyrnensis (Linn.) ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 222. 
Madarasz has founded a species, Halcyon perpidchra, on a 
single specimen of this species from Singapore (Ann. Mus. 
Hungar. ii. pp. 1^2 (1904)). 
82. Halcyon pileatus. 
Halcyon pileatus (Bodd.); Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 229. 
Both this and the last named are common rice-field birds 
throughout the Peninsula. H. pileatus is also found along 
the rivers even in their upper reaches in jungle country, 
which is never the case with H. smyrnensis. 
83. Halcyon armstrongi. 
Halcyon armstrongi Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 277, pi. vii. fig. 1. 
Halcyon humii Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 281, pi. viii. 
Throughout the Malay Peninsula on the coast and estuaries, 
but never found far from salt-water. 
Very abundant on Pulau Langkawi and Pulau Terutau. 
We do not think that the two forms from the Malay 
Peninsula recognised by Hr. Sharpe can be kept distinct, and 
it is, indeed, a question whether all the Indo-Malayan forms 
would not better be included under one name Halcyon 
chloris (Bodd.). 
Halcyon armstrongi is a slightly duller green bird, while 
H. humii is possibly smaller and brighter blue. Both forms, 
however, have been obtained together in widely separated 
localities and in the same month ; and as this Kingfisher is a 
strictly sedentary bird, we cannot regard the differences, which 
in extreme cases are certainly well-marked, as due to any¬ 
thing but age, sex, and degree of wear in the plumage. 
