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1917O H. C. Robinson : Birds from Pulau Langkawi. 181
g. . Batu
Caves, nr. Kuala Lumpur, Selangor.
24th May, 1910.
"Iris hazel, bill and feet slaty Mack, gape yellow."
These specimens have the wing 113-124 nun. in the males,
and 112-118 in the two measurable females and have no chestnut
whatever in the plumage. The bird from P. Telibun is of
a somewhat lighter blue and has traces ol the black and white
terminal tips to the feathers being the remains of the immature
pelage. The series must apparently be referred to Sykes'
subspecies originally described from the Western Ghats,
India.
0,6. MONTICOLA SOLITARIUS PHILIPPENSIS (P.L.S. MllU.I.
Hartert, Vog. Pal. Faun. i. p. 675 (1910); Robinson,
Ibis, 1915, p. 752; Gyldenstolpe p. 48.
a. 3. vix ad. West Side, Pulau Telibun, Trang,
S.W. Siam. Jan. 1st 1917. [No. 3807.]
This specimen has the remains of the immature pelage
strongly in evidence; the undertail coverts are however mainly
chestnut as. are also a few of the under wing coverts and
feathers of the belly. The wing is 118. The chestnut is very
much less developed than in a specimen from Lem Ngop, S.E.
Siam, collected by Mr. Kloss on January 15th 1915, but it is,
I think best, placed with this form, though it must be admitted
that the identification of two birds, shot within a few yards of
each other on the same day (see above) as different subspecies
is not very convincing, even on the assumption that the entirely
blue bird is a winter visitor from the N\V. while the chestnut
form comes from the XE. The north of the Malay Peninsula is
however indubitably the meeting place of easterly and westerly
migration streams.
97.
Larvivora CYANEA (Pall.).
Robinson and Kloss, p. 64. Robinson, anted, V, p. 141J
(1914) ; Gyldenstolpe, p. 49.
a. » . Telok Wan, Terutau, 19th December, hjiG.
[No. 3670.1
b. ?. Pasir Raja. Pulau Lontar, SW. Siam, nth
January, 1917. [No. 3889.
" Iris hazel, upper mandible black, lower Mesh at
base, feet pale, whitish flesh."
As has already been noted by Gyldenstolpe and myself
this species is nut improbably resident throughout the year in
the north of the Peninsula, specimens having been obtained as
late as May 15th. In the south of the Peninsula it certainly
only occurs during the winter months.
98. KlTTOCINCLA MACRURUS MACRURUS, (Gm.)
Cittocincla macrura, Robinson and Kloss, p. 65;
Robinson, an tea, V, pp. 108, 150.
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