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172 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,
b, c. i? ? ? Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S.W. Siam.
ioth-i2th January 1917. [Nos. 3879, 3932.]
" Iris hazel, bill black, in the female the lower
mandible light horn, feet slate or Payne's grey."
In a review of this group (Nov. Zool. ix, pp. 211-212
(1902) Hartert has established a subspecies. C. viridis viriditcctus,
(type from Baram, Sarawak) for the Bornean form based
on the fact that the shoulder spot is glistening green without
any bluish gloss, and a considerable series from SW. Sarawak
confirms his diagnosis. He considers that Malayan birds
should also be placed in this race but in this I cannot agree
as the majority of our large series precisely agree in the tint
of the shoulder spot with a specimen from Rimbo Pengadang,
Bencoolen (Jacobson coll.) which is a topotvpe of C. zosterops,
Vig.
80. Chloropsis icterocephala chlokocephai a.
(Wald.).
Chloropsis chlorocephala, Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 28.
Robinson and Kloss, p. 55: Robinson antea, vol. V, p. 101 ;
Robinson Ibis, p. ; 745 Gyldeiistolpe, p. 65.
a. 1. Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S.W. Siam. 12th
January, 1917. [No. 3903.]
" Iris chestnut red, bill black, feet sage green."
Gyldenstolpe (loc. cit.) suggests that C. icterocepJvala
may also occur on the southern parts of Siamese Malaya.
As a matter of fact several specimens were obtained by
Dr. Annandale and myself at Bukit Besar in Patani, though
Grant in his report* on the collection has accidentally emitted
the precise locality. This species meets and intergrades with
C. icterocephala in Perlis whence we have a pair which it is
impossible to refer definitely to either form.
81. Irena puella cyanea, Begbie.
Kloss, p. 56.
Irena cyanea, Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 179: Robinson and
a-c. 3 i ad. Burau, NW. Langkawi. I2th-I4th
December 1916. [Nos. 3620, 3630. 3637.]
d-j. 1 S ad. 4 £ imm., 2 ¥. Telok Wau, Terutau.
igth-28th December 1916. [Nos. 3662,
3664. 3671-2, 3689, 3713, 3774.]
"Iris carmine, bill and feet black."
Exceedingly common in heavy jungle on Langkawi and
Terutau, while a single specimen was obtained in April. 1915,
on the small island of Pulau Paya, near Kuala Kedah.
The series of males moulting into the adult plumage confirms
Gyldenstolpe's observations on the closely allied race /. p.
puella from further north (loc. cit. p. f>6) that the adult livery is
acquired by a direct change of colour in the feather without
• Fascic Malay. Zool III, p. 89 (1906).