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i-|N <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII.<br />
Entomo<strong>the</strong>ra coromanda coromanda, Oberholser, Proc.<br />
U. S. Nat. Mas. 48, p. 642 (1915).<br />
Halcyon coromanda coromanda, Gyldcnstolpe, p. 116.<br />
a-b. 1 ? ad. Kuah, Pulau Langkawi. 28th April.<br />
t9i5-<br />
c d. & v nd. Sungei Udang, Pulan Terutau.<br />
February. March, 1909.<br />
The two males have <strong>the</strong> wing, 105, no mm. and <strong>the</strong><br />
females 108, in and are slightly darker than two females<br />
from Trang and Selangor which have <strong>the</strong> wings 116 and 113<br />
mm. A slightly immature male shot in November on Pulau<br />
Jemor, Aroa Ids. in <strong>the</strong> middle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Straits <strong>of</strong> Malacca has<br />
<strong>the</strong> wing 113 mm.<br />
Oberholser (loc. cit. p. 642) considers <strong>the</strong> species as<br />
"strictly resident" but it is probable that like many o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
purely intertropical species it performs migrations <strong>of</strong> limited<br />
range. I am <strong>the</strong>refore inclined to doubt <strong>the</strong> validity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
race established for Sumatra (East and West), and Banka, E.<br />
coromanda neophora, Oberholser {loc. cit. p. 646). So far as I<br />
am able to judge from an adult male shot on gt^ October,<br />
1915, at Sungei Pelandok, Paku Seribas. S. W. Sarawak, <strong>the</strong><br />
Bornean race. H. c. minor iTemm. and Schleg.) is quite<br />
separable from <strong>the</strong> typical form by its rich, darker colouration,<br />
<strong>the</strong> upper surface more strongly washed with lilac, and<br />
slightly smaller size. I have not as yet been able to examine<br />
good specimens from Singapore Island, which is stated by<br />
Oberholser to be inhabited by this form.<br />
The species occurs also on Tioman but specimens from<br />
that island are too immature to identifv subspecifically with<br />
any certainty.<br />
37.<br />
Halcyon pileata (Bodd.)<br />
Sharpe. torn. cit. p. 229; Robinson and Kloss. p. 31;<br />
Robinson, Ibis. IQT5. p. 732: Gyldenstolpe, p. 116.<br />
a-c. $,2 $ Pulau Langkawi, 27th November. 1907.<br />
[F.M.S. Mus. 2897-9/07.]<br />
d. 1. Pulau Langkawi, 10th Februarv, 1909,<br />
e.<br />
[F.M.S. Mus. 485/09.]<br />
1 . Telok Apau, Pulau Langkawi,<br />
ber, 1912.<br />
15th Decem-<br />
/. I . Pulau<br />
Dayang Bunting. Langkawi. 8th<br />
December 1916. [No. 3603.]<br />
g. ?. Telok Wau, Terutau. 29th December, 1916.<br />
[No. 3787O<br />
" Iris dark, bill vermilion, darker at base, tarsi and<br />
toes vermilion, <strong>the</strong> latter darker."