On Birds from the Malay Peninsula. G50 



XXX. — On Birds from the Northern Portion of the Mala;/ 

 Peninsula, including the Islands of Langkawi and Terutau ; 

 with Notes on other rare Malayan Species from the Southern 

 Districts. By Herbert 0. Robinson, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 

 Director of Museums, Federated .Malay States, and Cecil 

 Boden Kloss, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Curator, Perak State 

 ]\1 useum. 



(Plate X. and Text-fig. G.) 



The collections of which an account is given in the present 

 paper have in the main been obtained during the past two 

 years in the northern portion of the peninsula, in part by 

 ourselves and Mr. Seimund, and in part by native collectors 

 attached to the Museums of the Federated Malay States, our 

 ordinary duties not permitting any very continuous periods 

 of field-work. 



In view of the fact that no connected account has ever 

 appeared of the birds of the districts in which we collected, 

 we have thought it of interest to prepare a full list of all 

 species obtained by us, specimens of which are preserved 

 either in the Selangor and Perak Museums or, in a consider- 

 able number of cases, in the Natural History Museum, South 

 Kensington. 



In some few instances, on account of the special interest 

 attaching to them, birds are mentioned which have not, as 

 yet, been met with in the area covered by the present paper, 

 but to these no serial number is attached. 



It will be seen that the list contains some 270 species 

 only, but it will probably be found ultimately that some four 

 hundred or more are represented in the area treated of. 



Our own collections were formed in very circumscribed 

 localities, while our collectors were only in the country for 

 between two and three months, and for various reasons did 

 not spend more than a very small proportion of this period at 

 any elevation on the hills, which were found to be singularly 

 unproductive. Several species, therefore, obtained by other 

 collectors in adjacent districts, or which might reasonably be 

 expected to occur, have not as yet been procured, though it is 



