ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS. 



NOTE L 



ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 

 made by Dr. C. KLAESI 



in the Highlands of Padang (W. Sumatra) during 

 the winter 1884—85. 



J. BUTTIKOPER. 



Repeated aad successful attempts have been made within 

 the last 10 years to increase our knowledge of the Avi- 

 fauna of Sumatra, and though much is still left undone, 

 the time cannot be very far, that we shall have a tole- 

 rably good idea of it and its relation to that of the Con- 

 tinent and the great neighbouring Islands of Java and 

 Borneo. 



The first intelligence of Sumatran Birds is given by Sir 

 Stamford Raffles in the Transactions of the Linnean 

 Society, Vol, XIII, p. 277— 331, with an appendix (pp. 

 839, 340) in 1822. This very important account mentions 

 168 species, which were collected at Bencoolen (S. W. 

 Sumatra), the residence of Raffles', and its vicinity. More 

 than 50 of these species were considered to be new. — 

 About 10 years later (1830) his widow published a memoir 

 of Raffles, with an appendix from the hand of Vigors', 

 in which 30 more species, also collected by Raffles, are 

 enumerated , so that the number of species , the first know- 

 ledge of which is due to Raffles, is brought to the con- 

 siderable number of 198. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. IX. 



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