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166 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,
These specimens have the wing. 84.5 mm. and I do not
see how they are to be separated from typical specimens from
the Philippines, with which they agree in size. In any event
however there is a name available for the continental bird,
viz. Buccii indicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i., p. 205 11790) which must
be applied to Malayan birds, although Parrot has separated the
Sumatran bird on the strength of a slightly smaller size which
is not altogether bome out by our large series from West
Sumatra and on certain differences in colour, some of which
we can confirm, the most noticeable being the absence of the
conspicuous orange yellow collar beneath the scarlet pectoral
patch, which is very noticeable in all the Malayan but barely
indicated in any Sumatran specimens, which in addition have
the green centres to the feathers of the abdomen and flanks
more restricted and the margins of a creamy rather than a
sulphury yellow. Parrot's name for this form Megalaema
haemacephala delicti, (Ablnindl. der Konigl. Bayer. Akad. der.
Wissensch. (II) xxiv. Bd. 1, p. i6q (19071 is however antedated
by Bucco rafflesius Boie, Brief. Ost. Ind. No. 15 (1832),
of which our Korinchi and Padang coast birds may be
regarded as topotypes.
65. Hirundo bAdia, Cass.
Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 166: Robinson and KIoss. p. 50;
Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 98.
a. Telok Wan, Terutau, 23rd December, 1916.
No. 3721.
" Iris and bill dark, feet dark maroon brown."
Very common indeed both on Langkawi and Terutau and
probably all over the Peninsula where there are precipitous
limestone hills. Resident throughout the year and not known
outside the limits of the Peninsula. A closely allied, but paler
and considerably smaller form, H. hyperyfhra, Layard, is
resident in Ceylon.
66. Hirundo javanica, Sparrm.
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. p. 142 (1885) ; Robinson
and Kloss, p. 50.
a. Koh Muk (Pulau Muntia) Trang, S.W. Siam,
5th January, 1917. No. 3854.
" Iris dark, bill and feet black."
Found breeding on the cliffs of Koh Muk together with
Cypselus subfurcatus and Collocalia sp. Also common on Pulau
Terutau, P. Langkawi and P. Tengah between Langkawi and
P. Langkawi.
Common and resident all along the coasts of the Malay
Peninsula, according to Hume and Davison rare in Tenasserim
but very common in Southern Malava. Curiously enough not
hitherto recorded from Siam proper, though it is mentioned
in a List of the Birds of Lower Cochin China by Tirant. Occurs
also in the Philippines.