FROM WESTERN SUMATRA. 3 



Indie, for Bonaparte's Conspectus Avium, and many other 

 publications. 



After these investigations a long space of time elapsed 

 without any remarkable ornithological news from this vast 

 Island, until Mr. Buxton made his collection in the 

 Lam pongs, S. E. Sumatra. This gentleman, during the 

 summer months of 1876 , collected a great number of Birds , 

 representing 152 species, amongst which two were new to 

 science. This very important collection was described by the 

 late Lord Tweeddale, Ibis 1877, p. 283-323. 



In 1877 (April to December), Mr. Snellen! an, the 

 Naturalist of the Dutch Expedition to Mid-Sumatra, made 

 a collection of Birds in the Highlands of Padang in diffe- 

 rent stations of the Expedition. The collection, at present 

 incorporated into the Leyden Museum , contained about 280 

 specimens, referable to 97 species , two of which {Rhipi- 

 dura atrata and Peloperdix rubrirostris) were then new to 

 science , but shortly afterwards were also found by Bec- 

 cari and described by Count Salvadori , before the publi- 

 cations of the Sumatra Expedition had left the press. The 

 ornithological collections are afterwards described by Mr. 

 Snelleman in. the work >•> Midden- Sumatra , Reizen en onder- 

 zoekingen der Sumatra Expeditie, uitgerust door het Aard- 

 rijkskundig Genootschap (1877 — 1879). Leiden, E. J. Brill. 

 Another very important collection was made by Mr. 

 Beccari on the Mount Singalang and in its vicinity , 

 partially in the coast region near Padang. This gentleman , 

 though in first line occupied with botanical collections, 

 obtained during the summer-months , from June to Sep- 

 tember 1878, 566 specimens, belonging to 179 different 

 species, amongst which no less than 24 are described as 

 new. Count Salvadori's description of this interesting col- 

 lection is in more than one regard the most eminent pu- 

 blication on Sumatran Birds hitherto offered to Ornitholo- 

 gists. It is contained in the Annali del Museo Civico di 

 Storia Naturale di Genova, Vol. XIV, p. 169—253(1879), 

 under the title of Uccelli di Sumatra. 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseum , Vol. IX. 



