( 542 ) 



birds is similiir in the last n'spect. Wing 13.i, tail T:5 mm. In such a varialilo 

 faniil}' of birds as owls one specitncn is generally not snfficicnt to show whether 

 certain diti'erenccs are indivitlnal or specific. In any case, however, the occnrrencc 

 on Mt. Tahan is remarkable. 



Ur. Sharpe has {///is 18s0, p. 7T) separated this species generically from 

 Pisorhina (Scops), but I hardly see the use of it. The more hair-like facial jilnniage 

 is only a fnrther development of the usual Pisorhhia type. The skeleton of /'. litctao 

 should perhaps be examined. 



3(1. Psittinus malaccensis (Lath.V •' 



J'sitlaciis malaccensis Latham, Iml. Orn. i. p. \W (ITitOj (Malacca). [The 

 name Psittinus incertus (Shaw) — Psittacus incertiis Shaw, Nat. Misc. PI. 769 — has 

 generally been used for this parrot, and as the year of that name 1790 has been 

 quoted with or without (piery. In 170(», however, only the first volume of the 

 JS'aturalisCs Miscellainj appeared, and it is quite certain that vol. xviii., in which 

 PI. 7()9 is generally bound, appeared much later than 1790. Mr. C. Davies Slierborn 

 has explained the actual dates of the appearance of the Naturalist'' s Misc. in tlu^ 

 Ann. anil Maif. Nat. Hist. ser. vol. xv., April Is'.i;") j). 37.5, and from these it ajijiears 

 that PI. TCi'.i was not issued before 1807. Latham's name malaccen.sis did ajipear 

 in 1701), and that name nuist theri'lore be used. The Psittacus malaccensis of 

 Graelin, IT^N, is a synonym of Palacornis loHijicinnla and does not, therefcire, 

 concern us here.] 



(J?. Sungei Lebeli l.\ v. lOn]. 



?. Gunong Tahan, November lool, lOUO ft. 



31. Loriculus galgulus (L). ' 

 Psittacus (iaUjulus \a\\\\., Sijst. Nat. ed. x., i. (175N) p. 103 ("India": I 

 substitute as the typical locality Malay Peninsula, Malacca). 

 Obtained l>y native shooters in the Pahang plains. 



3^;. Batrachostomus stellatus (Gould).* 



I'odanjiix strllatns Gould, /'. Z. S. 1S37. ji. 43 (" Java."— /'/vwr / I substitute 

 Malacca as the typical locality). 



"cJ." Gunong Tahan, ITjOO ft., September 1001. 



Tliis specimen is very dark, wing 131 mm. I am still donlitt'nl whether these 

 darker sj)ecimens are males or females, or what else. 



33. Pelargopsis javana malaccensis Sharj)e. 



[Alcedo javana Bodd., Tabl. PI. Knt. p. 47 (1783) (Ex Uanbenton : .lava, en-ore! 

 The correct locality is Borneo)]. 



Pelaryojmis malaccensis Sharpe, P. Z. S. IsTo i). 07 (Malacca). 



Mr. Waterstradt sent a number of unlabelled sj)ecimens said to have been taken 

 bv his natives in Pahang, and one shot on Gunong Tahan, lOOO ft. high, in 

 November 1001. All these have dark brown heads and belong to the form called 

 malaccensis by Dr. Sharpe. 



• As 1 follow the systematical arrangement of Sharped new " Hand-list " 1 place Batrarhoslfmus 

 here, though I fail t) .lee why the I'mlargidm- are placed between the " liti-atvrnitliit " and " Lrptosomati" 

 instead of keeping them nearer the Capriinidgl. 



