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I9 1 7- J H. C. Robinson: Birds from Pulau Langkawi. 1O5
same locality measure W. 137,
males W. 138, 135, T. 122, 122.
135; tail, 125, 115 and two
Mi. Kloss' two specimens from S.E. Siam listed by me
had the wing about 139. All these birds may be considered as
belonging to the above cited northern race, which differs
merely in size from birds from the south of the Malay Peninsula
which for the present may be taken as representing true
C. vittatus (typical locality Java) the colour distinctions noted
by Gyldenstolpe in his single specimen occurring in both forms
indifferently. The dimensions of the southern birds in the
F.M.S. Museums from localities ranging from Kuala Selangor
to the extreme south of the Peninsula are wing. 127-132 or a
mean of 128.2 for eight specimens while the wing of the
northern form as indicated by the specimens quoted above
ranges from I 35-142
138-2 mm.
with a mean also for eight specimens of
64. Calorhamphus havi (J. E. Gray).
Shelley, torn: cit. p. 50; Robinson and Kloss, p. 43.
a-c. 2 S. 1 ?. imm. Pasir Raja. Pulau Lonlar,
S.W. Siam. 9th [anuarv, 1917. [Nos.
3867-9.]
It is very unusual to lind barbets frequenting even the
larger islands near the coast of the Malay Peninsula and the
occurrence of this species at Pulau Lontar was therefore a little
surprising.
It seems hardly correct to rank this form from Sumatra
and the Malay Peninsula as merely a subspecies of C. fttligi-
nosus (Temm.) from Borneo, which differs so markedly in its
deep brick red throat, chin and upper breast, as some authors
have done. Malayan birds precisely agree with specimens from
Korinchi, West Sumatra, and it is difficult to credit Buttikofor
[Notes Leyden Mus. ix, p. 17 (1887) who seems to consider that
the two species are but plumage stages of one and the same
bird. Of the very large series of C. hayi from the Malay
Peninsula and Sumatra that have passed through mv hands
I have never seen one that could for a moment be confounded
with C. fuiiginosus, while the same is true of the series of
C . fuiiginosus before me, when compared with C. hayi.
Immature birds have the throat and lower surface washed
with pale sulphur yellow and the tips of the median wing
coverts rufous buff. The bills are black in the males and
brownish horn in the females.
65. Xantholaema haemacephala (P, L. S. Mull.).
Xantholaema haematocephala, Shelley, torn. cit. p. 8g :
Robinson and Kloss, p. 44; Robinson, antea, p. 95 (1913).
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