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Show 1888.] BIRDS COLLECTED IN PERAK. 277 p. 600) expressed his non-concurrence in the views of Capt. Ramsay and myself that Pterythrius cameranoi of Sumatra is identical with P. ceralatus of Tickell. The male of P. cameranoi is said by him to want the rosy tinge on the flanks which is present in Tenasserim specimens, which are also larger; while the female of P. cameranoi differs from that of P. ceralatus in the grey of the head being less pure, the back more olivaceous, and in the rufous colour of the underparts being brighter and more extended towards the throat. I therefore once more compared our series of these two birds in the British Museum, including the specimens in the Tweed-dale Collection. I agree with Count Salvadori that the females are rather different, as described by him, and the female from Perak is grey-headed like the Tenasserim bird ; but the male agrees with the Sumatran P. cameranoi better than with the true P. ceralatus. There is a slight difference in the gloss of the head in the males from Tenasserim and Sumatra, the latter having a blue-black gloss, and the Tenasserim birds being rather greenish black on the head. The Sumatran birds have decidedly more pink on the flanks. Fam. PARID^E. MELANOCHLORA SULTANEA (Hodgs.). Melanochlora sultanea, Hume & Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 37S ; Oates, t. c. p. 129 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 65. "No. 90. 8 ad. Gunong Batu Putch. "Irides brown ; bill dark grey; feet and legs blue-grey. This 'Sultan Tit' I have seen, as high as 4500 feet, both on the Larut Hills and also on the main mountain-chain." Fam. NECTARINIID^E. ..ETHOPYGA WRAYI. ASthopyga wrayi, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 440. "No. 108. 2 ad. Gunong Batu Putch (3400 feet). " Irides black; legs and feet brown ; bill black, yellowish at angle." Not distinguishable from the female of JE. sanguinipectus. Fam. DICEID^E. PRIONOCHILUS IGNICAPILLUS, Eyton. Prionochilus ignicapillus, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 65. "No. 110. ^ ad. Gunong Batu Putch (3400 feet). "Irides brown; bill black above, yellow beneath with dusky tip ; legs and feet nearly black." A young bird, without any of the fine colouring of the adult, being almost entirely olive-green. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1888, No. XX. 20 |