1877.] DISTEICT OF LAMPONG, S.E. SUMATEA. 477 



Palembang, penetrating a hundred and twenty miles inland ; but no separate account of his 

 collection has appeared. 



During a period of a Httle over five months, commencing the 30th of May, 187G, Mr. 

 Edmund Charles Buxton travelled in the Lampong district, situated at the south-eastern extremity 

 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 whicli two appear 

 to be undescribed. The general character of the birds in this part of Sumatra is Malaccan. Of Mr. 

 Buxton's collection 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 Bcndrofi/pes analis, BatracJiostomus corimtus, Xantholcema rosea, Dicceum flamineum, 

 Ruhhjula dispar, Oriolus coronatus, Prinia familiaris, Buchanga leucoplma, Pericrocotus xantlio- 

 gaster, Munia leucogastroides, Crgpsirhina varians, Sturnopastor contra. One, BatracJiostomus 

 cornutus, is known, out of Sumatra, to occur in Borneo only. 



The proportion of species, seventy-nine, which have also a Javan habitat is also 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 incorporated 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 

 comparison, the identity or non-identity of a large number of Sumatran species with those Ibis, 1877, 

 inhabiting Java, Borneo, and Malacca, and of enabling us to add a little to our knowledge 

 of geographical distribution. 



1. MiCEOHIERAX FRINGILL.yiIUS. 



Falco fringillarius, Drapiez, Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat. vi. p; 412, t. v., " des Indes " (1824). 



A series of four individuals, identical with Malaccan examples. [" Sits on naked branches 

 at top of trees." — Buxton^ 



2. Haliastur intermedius. 



Falco 2'ondicerianus, Gm. ; Raffles, t. c. p. 278. 

 Haliastur intermedius, Gurney, Ibis, 1865, p. 28. 



3. ASTUR TRIVIRGATUS. 



Falco trivirgafus, Temm. PI. Col. 203, "Sumatra" (1824). 



4. Pernis ptiloehynchus. 



Falco ftilorhynchus, Temm. PL Col. 44, "Java, Sumatra" (1823). 



An example of a Honey-Buzzard was obtained by Mr. Buxton which has the feathers of the 

 breast, abdomen, flanks, ventral region, and the thigh-coverts white or tawny white, transversely 

 barred with two or three brown broad bands, the terminal band being narrowly fringed with 



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