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igi7-l H. C. Robinson: Birds from Pulan Langkawi. 159
compared. Worn specimens show a much more oily green
tint on the mantle and inner secondaries.
Common along the coasts of the WW Malay Peninsula
and on the islands of the Straits of Malacca during the
winter months, but rare even on migration in the south of the
peninsula. Apparently not resident.
56.* CUCULUS MICROPTEIU'S, Gould.
Shelley, op. cit. p. 241; Robinson and Kloss, p. 40;
Gyldenstolpe, Jonrn. Nat. Hist. Soc. Stum, i, p. 232 11915).
a. S ad. Burau, N. \V. Langkawi. 15th December
1916. No. 3646.
" Is, Cere olive green, bill greenish horn, the culnien
black, gape yellow, feet chrome yellow."
TL. 305; W, 195, T, 153, B, 30. 5. TS, 18.
In the Malay Peninsula this species has been found breeding
in July but as a resident it is scarce. It is, however,
common on migration during the winter months.
57.
HlEROCOCCYX SPARVERIOIDES (Vig.).
Shelley torn. cit. p. 232; Robinson and Kloss, p. 40;
Gyldenstolpe, p. 102.
a. ? imm. Pulau Dayang Bunting, Langkawi.
gth December 1916, No. 3616.
b. ¥ imm. Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S. \V.
Siam, 10th January, 1917.
"Iris light hazel, orbital ring and feet chrome, upper
mandible black, lower and gape olive green."
TL. 380, 403: \V, 233, 232; T, 220, 229; B, 34, 34; TS,
25. 28.
A fine adult female from Ko Khau, Trang, has the wing
(measured dry) 232 and an immature male from the same
locality 237. Shelley loc. cit. gives the wing of an adult as 8^
in. (210) so that the specimen he measured, if correct!} recorded,
must have been exceptionally small. Gyldenstolpe 's adult male
from Koon Tan, North Siam, measured 237 mm.
The species is evidently fairly common in the northern
third of the Peninsula though probably only in the winter
months but is extremely rare south of the latitude of Penang.
As is the case with so many migratory species birds that have
not yet attained the fully adult plumage appears to be in the
great majority.
58. HlEROCOCCYX NISICOLOR (HodgS.).
Robinson and Kloss, p. 40; Robinson, untea, vol. v, p. 93.
Hierococcyx fugax (part.) Shelley, turn. cit. p. 2361.
a-c. 1 ? vix ad. 2 S imm. Telok Wau, Terutau,
i8th-24th December 1916. [Nos. 3659,
3728,3729],