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Show 1887.] MR. R. B. SHARPE O N BIRDS FROM PERAK. 443 GECINUS CHLOROLOPHUS. " No. 22. S • Irides crimson. The only Woodpecker seen in the higher parts of the hills." LEPOCESTES PORPHYROMELAS. Blythipicus porphyromelas, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 52. " No. 58. S. Irides brown." MIGLYPTES GRAMMITHORAX, Malh.; Hargitt, Ibis, 1884, p. 191. Meiglyptes tristis, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 52; Kelham, t. c. p. 388; Salvad. t. c. p. 184. "No. 63. <S. Irides brown." VIVIA INNOMINATA (Burt.); Salvad. t. c. p. 184. "No. 48. 2' Irides brown. This pretty little Piculet seems to be rare, as I only met with it once. I saw a small bird on the almost vertical branch of a shrub, pecking at it in the same way as a Woodpecker, and took it to be a Nuthatch until I shot it." I showed Mr. Wray's specimen to m y friend Mr. Hargitt, who pronounced it identical with Himalayan examples. By the discovery of the species in the Larut mountains its range to the southward is much extended, though it occurred to Dr. Beccari in Sumatra. CARPOPHAGA BADIA (Raffl.); Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 67. "No. 45. Irides greyish white; feet and eyes crimson-red. I have also collected this Pigeon on the plains near the mangrove-swamps in May and June, though it is not by any means common, and does not seem to have been noticed by collectors in the Straits. Like C. insignis oi Hodgson, it appears to descend from the hills to the plains during the months of April, May, and June." MACROPYGIA, sp. " No. 60. c? • Irides pale brown, with an inner ring of white ; legs dull lake-red. Only one specimen of this handsome Tree-Dove was procured, so it is probably rare. I shot it at upwards of 4000 feet. " Some three years ago I shot a small reddish-brown Dove, about 9 or 10 inches in length, near the top of the Larut hills, but unfortunately the skin was not preserved. I also found a nest belonging to the same species, which was built of twigs and contained white eggs. It was on the top of a small palm tree, about 5 feet from the ground. These two species and Carpophaga badia are the only representatives of the Columbse which I have seen in the upper parts of the mountains." So far as I can see, this Dove is M. tusalia oi Hodgson; but I must confess that the variations of plumage in this genus require more time to work out than I have at present at m y disposal. |