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Butlek's Fly-Catcher- Wakblee {Cryptolopha hutleri, Hartert.) 

 (Described Bull. B. 0. C, No. LIV, p. 50.) 



This new fly-catcher is not uncommon on the Larut Hills, Perak, from 

 3,500 ft. to the summit of Gunong Ijau — about 5,000 ft. The nests, of 

 which I found several in May, are generally placed in the small caves 

 formed in banks where the soil has been washed away under the overhanging 

 roots of some large tree. They are composed principally of moss, and very 

 closely resemble nests of the little European Wren. One nest contained 

 three eggs, which I now have, pure white and of the usual Crj/ptolopha type. 

 In another nest were three young, which the old birds were feeding with 

 insects regardless of my presence within a few feet. From other nests examin- 

 ed the young had apparently recently flown. 



Horsfield's Nightjar (Caprlmalgus laacrunis, Horfs.}. 



I find Capri malgus macrurus in the Malay Peninsula lays an egg entirely 

 different from that of the Ceylonese race of the same species (C. atriponus). 

 A pair of eggs taken in June (bird obtained) have the ground-colour warm 

 bufl: : one egg is marked evenly all over with marblings of very pale brown 

 and very pale grey ; the other is marked with stronger shades of the same 

 two colours, but in this the markings are almost entirely confined to a broad 

 ring round the larger end. The Ceylonese bird lays a buff-coloured Qgg 

 sparingly marked with a few round sepia dots. 



The Ceylon C. atrip^nnls differs, too, in its call-note from C, macrurus. The 

 note of the former is invariably a low liquid chuckle of three or four notes • 

 the voice of the latter is a monosyllable which has been compared to the 

 sound made by striking a plank with a hairmer. 



C. atripennis is certainly only a race of C. macrurus, and the above peculiar- 

 ities are noteworthy, as this Nightjar, by laying two totally different types of 

 eggs in different localities, has caused a little confusion. 



A. L. BUTLER, F.Z.S, 

 Selangoe, Oct., 1898, 



No. XIII.— OCCURRENCE OF THE BUACK-WINGED KITE 

 (ELAENUS C.ERULENS), DESF., AND THE SHORT-TOED EAGLE 

 {CIRCAETUS GALLICVS), GMEL,, IN THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



There are one or two specimens of the Black-winged Kite in the Perak 

 Museum, shot in that State, and a single specimen in the Selangor Museum 

 killed here; Blanford ('■' Birds,'' Hi., p. 380) says that it has not been 

 recorded East of Burma nor in Southern Tenasserim. 



Looking through some old skins in this Museum I found a Very mutilated 

 aud moth-eaten specimen of Circaetus gaUicus, shot at Ampang near here 

 two years ago. I measured the bird at the time and compared the foot care- 

 fully with the figure given in the''Birds of India"(III., p. 85i5). I intended to 

 have sent it home for the sake of the locality, but unfortunately my taxidermist 

 burnt it by a mistake while destroying some old and valueless specimens. 



