44 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds from the 
the birds that we shot ourselves were feeding in flocks 
on the fruit of a species of fig-tree which attains a very 
great height. 
Individuals from Trang appear to be fairly typical, but this 
locality is very nearly the southern limit of the species. At 
Temengoh, in Northern Perak, specimens assignable both 
to this and the southern form, M. duvauceli , having the 
ear-coverts either blue or black or intermediate, are found. 
Many Selangor specimens have the ear-coverts faintly 
washed with verditer-blue, while in Malacca, Johor, and the 
Sunda Islands the typical black-eared form alone occurs. 
121. Xanthol^ema mmatocephala. 
Xantholcema hcematocephala (Mull.); Shelley, tom. cit. 
p. 89. 
Very numerous, keeping more to the open country and to 
orchard land, but not found further south in the Malay 
Peninsula than Central Perak. 
Its Malay name, tukang besi , the blacksmith bird, alludes 
to its gong-like notes, which are most characteristic sounds 
in the districts which it affects. 
Indicatorid^:. 
122. Indicator archipelagicus. 
Indicator archipelagicus Temm.; Shelley, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. xix. p. 4 (1891). 
Indicator malayanus Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1878, pp. 794, 
795 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, viii. p. 155 ; Robinson, 
p. 180. 
Indicator archipelagicus inornatus Neumann, Bull. B. O. C. 
xxi. pp. 97, 98 (1908). 
$ . Chong, Trang, N. Malay Peninsula, 30th December, 
1909. 
£ . Ginting Bidei, Selangor, 2300 ft., 13th May, 1908. 
The Malayan Honey-Guide appears to be a species of 
extreme rarity, and after six years' collecting the Selangor 
Museum has only succeeded in obtaining the above-men¬ 
tioned two specimens, while the two others known from the 
