4 ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS 



During the same year (August 1878 to January 1879) 

 and partially together with Mr. Beccari , Mr. Bock, a 

 Swedish Naturalist, collected for Lord Tweeddale in the 

 Highlands ofPadang, and obtained about 800 spe- 

 cimens, referable to 166 species, 32 of which are not in- 

 cluded in the lists given by Tweeddale and Salvador!. Three 

 species have been described as new by Mr. Wardlaw Ramsay 

 in the P. Z. S. 1880, p. 13. One of these , however, Turdinus 

 marmoratus ^ was afterwards shown by Mr. Sharpe to be 

 identical with T. loricatus (Mull.). 



Two other collections were sent to the International 

 Colonial Exhibition at Amsterdam , and are determined and 

 enumerated by Dr. Jentink in the Exhibition Catalogue , 

 p. 137 (1882). One of both belonged to Mr. F. von 

 F a b e r, then Comptroller at Loeboe Basong, Pria- 

 m a n (Lowlands of Padang), and contained 36 species. The 

 other was sent by Mr. van Schuylenburg, Assistent 

 Resident at Moeara Doea (Palembang) and contained 43 

 specimens, representing 36 species. Both collections were 

 afterwards presented to the Leyden Museum. 



Very extensive collections were made during 1880 and 

 1881 by the well-known energetic traveller in the Dutch 

 Indies, Mr. H. Forbes in the Residencies L a m p o n g 

 and Palembang, southern and south eastern Sumatra. 

 They contained altogether 148 species, 74 of which were 

 obtained in the Lampongs , and 74 in the Residency of 

 Palembang, 15 from the first country having also been 

 found in the latter. Both collections are described by Mr. 

 Nicholson in Ibis 1882, p. 50— 65 and 1883, p. 285— 257, 

 and also make part of the List of the Birds of Sumatra, 

 given by Mr. Forbes in his book »A Naturalist's Wande- 

 rings in the Eastern Archipelago", p. 269 (1885). 



Another , also important collection has been made in Deli, 

 Eastern Sumatra, opposite to Perak (Malacca), in May 1884, 

 and kindly presented by the collector, Dr. B. H a g e n , to the 

 Leyden Museum. It contained 112 species which show in a 

 high degree the relationship to the Avifauna of Malacca. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum , Vol. IX. 



