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42. Zaiiclostomiis javauicus Horsf. — 1 c? 'Vi 1914. 



43. Nyctioniis amicta Temm. — 2 2 ^i & ^V^ 1914. 

 Wing: 119—122 mm. Tail: 119—121 mm. Culmen: 38—41 

 mm. 



44. Treron curvirostra nipaleiisis Hodgs. — 1 J" ^Vi 

 1914. 



On a Collection of Birds from Lower Perak. 



The collections dealt with in the following pages were 

 all brought together at the neighbourhood of Teluk Anson. 

 This small, though rather important town, is situated a few 

 miles from the mouth of the Perak River. The District 

 surrounding Teluk Anson is generally known as the Lower 

 Perak District and is a magnificent planting ground wbere 

 botb rubber and coconuts are grown, the latter being most 

 numerous along the coast line. The general condition of the 

 country has kindly been communicated by my friend Mr. 

 Fredrik Adelborg, the Director of the Lower Perak Rubber 

 Estate, under the saperintendence of which my Dyak collector 

 Bangga worked for about six weeks. At this occasion I 

 take the opportunity to express publicly my gratitude to Mr. 

 Adelborg for his generosity of presenting these collections 

 to the R. Nat, Hist. Museum in Stockholm, in which they 

 form a valuable addition to the Malayan collections. 



Like the other States on the Malay Peninsula, Perak has 

 also been rather tolerably worked out ornithologically and 

 very little probably remains unknown. Numerous papers 

 relating to the Bird Fauna of Perak have been published in 

 various periodicals. The most valuable works about the 

 Birds of Perak are the following which have been enume- 

 rated in chronological order. 



1. H. R. Kelham, Ornithological notes made in the 

 Straits Settlements and in the western States of the Malay 

 Peninsula. Ibis 1881, p. 362—395 & 501—532. Ibis 1882, 

 p. 1—18 & 185—204. 



2. R. Bowdler Sharpe, Notes on some birds from Perak. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1886, p. 350—353. 



