the District of Lainpong, S.E. Sumatra. S-85 



a stay of about three months, collected some birds in the 

 district of Palembang, penetrating a hundred and twenty 

 miles inland ; but no separate account of his collection has 

 appeared. 



During a period of a little over five months, commencing 

 the 30th of May, 1876, Mr. Edmund Charles Buxton travelled 

 in the Lampong district, situated at the south-eastern ex- 

 tremity of Sumatra, and there made a large collection of 

 birds, which he has kindly placed at my disposal, and of which 

 I now propose to give an account. He started from Telok 

 Betang and went inland to Sockedana, a distance of about 

 80 miles, and obtained in all 152 species, of which two appear 

 to be undescribed. The general character of the birds in 

 this part of Sumatra is Malaccan. Of Mr. Buxton's collec- 

 tion only twelve species are not inhabitants of the Malaccan 

 peninsula as at present known ; and of these eleven are Javan 

 species, some of them recurring in Burma and one in India. 

 They are Dendrotypes analis, Batrachostomus cornutus, Xan- 

 tholama rosea, Dicceum flammeum, Rublgula dispar, Oriolus 

 coronatus, Prinia familiaris, Buchanga leucophoia, Pericro- 

 cotus xantJwgaster, Munia leucogastroides, Crypsirhina vari- 

 ans, Sturnopastor contra. One, Batrachostomus cornutus, is 

 known, ouf of Sumatra, to occur in Borneo only. 



The proportion of species, seventy-nine, which have also a 

 Javan habitat is large, as might be inferred would be the case 

 from the narrowness of the straits which separate South- 

 eastern Sumatra from the western extremity of Java. This 

 number may eventually be shown to be still greater when the 

 ornis of Java is better known. 



Some notes were kept by Mr. Buxton ; but, as they are 

 chiefly descriptive of the plumage, I have only incorpo- 

 rated the few observations which relate to the soft parts 

 or to habits. The chief value of the collection consists 

 in its enabling us to establish positively, by critical com- 



deiiandsche overzeesche bezittingen : Land- en Volkenkunde (1839-44) 

 Zoologie (1839-44). 



