Journal of the Federated Malay States museums - Sabrizain.org
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I9 1 7- J H. C. Robinson: Birds from Pulau Langkawi. 1O5<br />
same locality measure W. 137,<br />
males W. 138, 135, T. 122, 122.<br />
135; tail, 125, 115 and two<br />
Mi. Kloss' two specimens from S.E. Siam listed by me<br />
had <strong>the</strong> wing about 139. All <strong>the</strong>se birds may be considered as<br />
belonging to <strong>the</strong> above cited nor<strong>the</strong>rn race, which differs<br />
merely in size from birds from <strong>the</strong> south <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Malay</strong> Peninsula<br />
which for <strong>the</strong> present may be taken as representing true<br />
C. vittatus (typical locality Java) <strong>the</strong> colour distinctions noted<br />
by Gyldenstolpe in his single specimen occurring in both forms<br />
indifferently. The dimensions <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sou<strong>the</strong>rn birds in <strong>the</strong><br />
F.M.S. Museums from localities ranging from Kuala Selangor<br />
to <strong>the</strong> extreme south <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Peninsula are wing. 127-132 or a<br />
mean <strong>of</strong> 128.2 for eight specimens while <strong>the</strong> wing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
nor<strong>the</strong>rn form as indicated by <strong>the</strong> specimens quoted above<br />
ranges from I 35-142<br />
138-2 mm.<br />
with a mean also for eight specimens <strong>of</strong><br />
64. Calorhamphus havi (J. E. Gray).<br />
Shelley, torn: cit. p. 50; Robinson and Kloss, p. 43.<br />
a-c. 2 S. 1 ?. imm. Pasir Raja. Pulau Lonlar,<br />
S.W. Siam. 9th [anuarv, 1917. [Nos.<br />
3867-9.]<br />
It is very unusual to lind barbets frequenting even <strong>the</strong><br />
larger islands near <strong>the</strong> coast <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Malay</strong> Peninsula and <strong>the</strong><br />
occurrence <strong>of</strong> this species at Pulau Lontar was <strong>the</strong>refore a little<br />
surprising.<br />
It seems hardly correct to rank this form from Sumatra<br />
and <strong>the</strong> <strong>Malay</strong> Peninsula as merely a subspecies <strong>of</strong> C. fttligi-<br />
nosus (Temm.) from Borneo, which differs so markedly in its<br />
deep brick red throat, chin and upper breast, as some authors<br />
have done. <strong>Malay</strong>an birds precisely agree with specimens from<br />
Korinchi, West Sumatra, and it is difficult to credit Buttik<strong>of</strong>or<br />
[Notes Leyden Mus. ix, p. 17 (1887) who seems to consider that<br />
<strong>the</strong> two species are but plumage stages <strong>of</strong> one and <strong>the</strong> same<br />
bird. Of <strong>the</strong> very large series <strong>of</strong> C. hayi from <strong>the</strong> <strong>Malay</strong><br />
Peninsula and Sumatra that have passed through mv hands<br />
I have never seen one that could for a moment be confounded<br />
with C. fuiiginosus, while <strong>the</strong> same is true <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> series <strong>of</strong><br />
C . fuiiginosus before me, when compared with C. hayi.<br />
Immature birds have <strong>the</strong> throat and lower surface washed<br />
with pale sulphur yellow and <strong>the</strong> tips <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> median wing<br />
coverts rufous buff. The bills are black in <strong>the</strong> males and<br />
brownish horn in <strong>the</strong> females.<br />
65. Xantholaema haemacephala (P, L. S. Mull.).<br />
Xantholaema haematocephala, Shelley, torn. cit. p. 8g :<br />
Robinson and Kloss, p. 44; Robinson, antea, p. 95 (1913).<br />
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