268 A NATURALIST'S WAH^BElllNGS ■ 



II.-LIST OF THE BIRDS OF SUAIATEA. 



"The first systematic account of tlie avi-fauna of Sumatra" ri quote 

 from the late Lord Tweeddale's valnable paper. On a collection of birds 

 ^^^^ 'l}}'l^^-^Vor^g^ m 1876 by Mr. E. C. Buxton, in the Ihis for 1877. 

 page 283) "was written by Sir Stamford Eaffles at Fort Marlborough 

 near Bencoolen. . Most of the birds enumerated were obtained in the 



^^yT'^L , ^TTY"" '^^""^ "^ ^^^'"^^ ^'^"''^ ^^-^P^ ^»to the interior of 

 the district of that name, durmg the years 1819 and 1820, partly by 



Sir Stamford, assisted by Dr. Joseph Arnold, and partly by Messrs 



Diard and Duvaucel. These tvo gentlemen were French naturalis s 



whose services Sir Stamford liad secured while on a TisirSo BenSr An 



occur ;>d1tr'"''ff''T?^TS ^^'""^ '^°« ^ft"' "^'-^'■r 'Arrival in Sumatra 

 ?pr? fn .1 . r'V ^^'' Lieutenant-Goyernor and these two Frenchmen, 

 dcmHn,.^^'^^ ^^ '°{'"*^''' ^^ ^ cessation of their labours, and to their 

 ?b?lc/ • r"^ ^encoolen ; and Sir Stamford was obliged to undertake 



to ll Si M '^ ?^- *^^ """^''^^S ^""^^^^^^ 1""^^^^^' «^ ^« ^"«^v the results 

 Sti^^.^ Tl '"/^'^^^f- Hence his papers in the 'Linnean Trans- 



dPsr^rS;^ ?« V'Ti^l' ""l ^^'"''''^ *'^^^^^^^ catalogued, and more or less 

 TsW] 1'. S ""^ ^^^' ^^.* ^T^ ^'^^ obtained in the Prince-of-Wales 



caSl bS "" ^'^^ *^''°"S^ oversight, and on thi strength of 



wbiJh in™ { ^''^''\ published a memoir of her late liusband, to 

 collPct.vI fnT'""- ""^ "" catalogue, by Vigors, of the zoological specimens 



" Wp i^Jn **?/ • • ; .^^°^* 19^ «P^"<^« «r« enumerated. 

 1 wnn^S ; ?) ^ "*^ attempt at a complete account of the birds of Sumatra has 



Wn Knl, V A ^S"«^,"^^°y species not contained in Vigors' list have 

 pSficuTnrW hi t"^ described principally by the Dutch zoologists, more 

 dun- S f!f by Temmmck and by Solomon Muller. Mr. A. E. Wallace, 



in thf A^^-^ffT^ ^^"""^^ "'°^^^'' "^ *^^-^'^«r 1861, collected some birds 

 nland W ^ P^'embang, penetrating a hundred and twenty miles 



" ?inr.Jn ^^Pf %*^ f ^^^^nt of '^is collcction has appeared. 



Lampong district ... He 



started frnm 'v^\r.^ "• ""•^^"" ixa,,ciicu ill uie ijampong aistricc ... He 

 about p£X- S^ I^etong and went inland to Sukadana, a distance of 

 SndeLribed " '' ^^^^m^^ in all 152 species, of which two were 



Padfu°nil?S 'i^'^ ^"*^^^ mid-Sumatra expedition, through the 

 knSd?p!f ;\ ^^^ ""iT^ *'^" ^'^^^"S Hari rive?, added much to our 



■?m^ "? / "L^*"/"^^ "'*^^-^^ of t^^^t region, 

 n.fura^-st vklf 1 ^^P/^"^)^' ¥^^' ^^- ^^^««r^'' t^^ well-known Italian 

 MounfSnAl n ?fi?rn /' ^^^r? ^" ^^^'^ mountains of Eadang, chiefly on 

 iSJa!nlt^ S^^ T*^- l^^^^t^J^cd representatives of many Indo- 

 whcwKfl. ''^' have not been found in the Lampongs, some of 



co?i?cttd^nwl°fi ^'"'^ '^"^^ ^•''^'■' ^^'*- ^^^1 ^o<^k, a Swedish naturalist, 

 nSfnfnfn.ir*^^"'*'-'^"'*'/^Sion ou behalf of the late Lord Tweeddale! 



obtaining 166 species. 



Wardlaw 



■RimsTi/ \t.ui u V — 1 • ""^"""'' "^^ i"i« eoiiecuon oy tjaptam WarUiaw 

 LoSdJn, 1880, p. iT '"^ I'roceedings of the Zoological Society of 



iio?"3 T??w^^^' ^"^ ^^^^""y ""^^^ extensive collections in the Lam- 

 b? Mr F Sw ""^ I^f id«««es, which have Ix^en carefully worked out 

 by Mr. F. J^icholson, and a list given in the Ibis for 1879, pp. 51 and 235. 



