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Northern Portion of the Malay Peninsula. 
Peninsula are a native skin from “ Malacca,” the type of 
I. malayanus, and another obtained by Davison at Klang, 
Selangor, the type of I. archipelagicus inornatus. 
Shelley ( loc . cit.) has described the female as similar in 
plumage to the male, on the strength of a specimen (“ c ” 
of the Catalogue) from Bintulu, Sarawak, sexed as such by 
Everett. It is, however, probable that this is an error and 
that the female differs from the male in the absence of the 
chrome-yellow shoulder-patch and possibly in the slightly 
smaller size. 
The type of I. malayanus is not devoid of a shoulder-patch 
as stated by Sharpe, but has it only slightly marked and 
largely concealed by the method of preparation; it is 
probably a young male. 
Neumann’s race is evidently not valid, and no constant 
differences can be detected between the four specimens from 
the Peninsula now before me, and five from Borneo, which 
are not obviously due to age and sex. 
Both the above-mentioned examples were shot by natives, 
one in the vicinity of a bees’-nest and both in deep jungle, 
but nothing else is known of the habits of the Malayan 
species. 
PlCIIUE. 
123. Gecinus vittatus. 
Gecinus vittatus (Vieill.) ; Hargitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
xviii. p. 46 (1890). 
Fairly common along the coast of the Peninsula from the 
Langkawi Islands southwards, especially where there are 
Casuarina trees, but rarely seen iuland. 
124. Gecinus viridanus. 
Gecinus viridanus Blyth; Hargitt, tom. cit. p. 47. 
Common in Trang. 
This species replaces G. vittatus northwards of the Lang¬ 
kawi group and also in the Patani States on the east of the 
Peninsula. The bird from the island of Salanga, G. weberi 
Muller (J. fur Orn. 1882, p. 421), of which there are several 
