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Also occurs in Langkawi, this being its southernmost
recorded locality.
113. Oriolus indicts, Jerd.
Robinson and Kioss, p. 72; Robinson, Ibis, 1915. p. 758;
Gyldetistolpe p. 22.
a.-b. i ad., 1 vix ad. Telok Wau, Terutau,
2i-23rd December 1916. [Nos. 3693, 3711.]
c-e. 1 ad., 2 ¥ imm. Koh Muk (Pulau Muntia)
Trang, S.W. Siam, 4~6th January, 1917.
[Nos. 3845, 3860-1.]
/. $ ad. Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S.W. Siam.
12th January, 1917. [No- 3891.]
" Iris red, bill pinkish horn, feet slate."
Very common in the winter months all over the north of
the Peninsula; scarcer in the south. None of the specimens
show any approach to the allied. 0. tenuirostris, which differs in
the much narrower black nuchal band and the broader yellow-
tips to the tail feathers. It has been recorded from the extreme
south of Tenasserim but never from within Peninsular
limits.
114.
CORVl'S MACRORHYNCHUS, Wagl.
Robinson and Kloss, p. 71 : Robinson, antea, vol. V, p.
150; Robinson, Ibis 1915, p. 761 : Gyldenstolpe, p. 16.
a. & Burau, NW. Langkawi, 14th December, 1916.
[No. 3634.]
b. 3 W. side Pulau Telibun, Trang, S.W. Siam,
3rd January 1917. [No. 3831.]
"Iris grey or hazel, bill and feet black."
Common at the fishing stations along the coast as elsewhere
in the Malay Peninsula where this bird rarely occurs in
the inland districts, where its place is taken by the totally
different C. compilator, Richmond, C. enca, Horsf.
These specimens, which are in freshly moulted plumage,
have the throat and back well developed and except on the
head and neck are glossed with purplish and green, the former
predominant. The bases of the feathers are dull gre)- but in
two others from Langkawi and Terutau these are much paler,
while a male from Trang has them nearly white. The whole
series from the Malay Peninsula is somewhat variable in this
respect as also in size, and in view of the fact that
Stresemann's recent monograph on the group (Verh. Ornith. Ges.
Baycrn, xii, pp. 377-404 (1916) is not accessible to me I do not
propose to attach any subspecihc name to these birds. Wing
335 and 338 mm.