NILS GYLDENSTOLPE, MALAYAN BIRDS AND MAMMALS. 7 



Malay Peninsula. Journal Fed. Malay States Mus. Vol. IV, 

 1911, p. 246—247. 



15. H. C. RoBiNSON, Notes on birds new to, or rare in, 

 the Malay Peninsula. Journal Fed. Malay States Mus. Vol. 

 V. 1913, p. 15—22. 



16. H. C. RoBiNSON, List of a small coUection of Birds 

 and Mammals from Gunong Kerbau, Perak. Journal Fed. 

 Malay States Mus. Vol. V. 1914, p. 24—27. 



Besides these publications scattered minor notices and 

 deseriptions of new species found in Perak have been pu- 

 blished in various scientific journals such as the Stray Feath- 

 ers, the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists^ Club, the Novi- 

 tates Zoolog icce, the Journcd of the Federated Malay States 

 Museums, the Proccedings of the United States Natural History 

 Museum and other periodicals. The most valuable are, 

 however, those enumerated in the above-mentioned biblio- 

 graphical list. 



In all the present collection comprises 195 specimens of 

 birds belonging to 90 species. One species viz. Locustella 

 certhiola Pall. is recorded for the first time from the Malay 

 Peninsula. It may of course only be considered as a winter 

 visitor, its breeding places being situated in Siberia. During 

 the winter months it has previoush^ been recorded from 

 Bengal, Ceylon, Burma, the Andamans, the Great Sunda 

 Islands and the Natuna Islands, but not from the Malay 

 Peninsula where the allied Locustella lanceolata Temm. has 

 been obtained (vide: Robinson, A Handlist of the Birds 

 of the Malajs Peninsula south of the Isthmus of Kra. Kuala 

 Lumpur. 1910). 



»All the birds were shot in the Lower Perak District in 

 the Malay Peninsula. This District is formed by the low- 

 lying land at the mouth of the rivers Perak and Berna m. 

 The land in question, which is very flat and only slightly 

 above sea level at high tide is overgrown with dense jungle. 

 The jungle is only cleared along the main roads and the 

 rivers to give room for rubber and coconut plantations. At 

 high tide the water in the rivers is slightly brackish a con- 

 siderable distance from their mouth. 



The District abounds with big game, the tiger and the 



