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the main mouutain range, in central Paliang, and on the north-east 

 coast. In view, therefore, of a work on the Vertebrate Fauna of the 

 Malay Peninsula, which is shortly to be undertaken under the auspices 

 of the Government of the Federated Malay States, I have thought it 

 well to bring together a revised list of the species at present recorded 

 from the area. Considerations of space have prevented me from giving 

 the distribution of the species, either local or general, nor have I, except 

 in very occasional instances, thought it necessary to give any references 

 to descriptions or authority for occurrence. 



My sources of informations have been the collections of the Perak, 

 Selangor and Singapore Museums (the two former of which are very 

 rich in birds), the "Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum" and 

 various papers on recent collections which I have cited in a former 

 article ^ and need not here repeat. 



For the convenience of local students, species, which are represented 

 in one only of the local museums, are marked with an asterisk for 

 Perak and a dagger for Selangor, while those, which are desiderate to 

 both collections, are printed in antique type — e.g., Rheinwardtius 

 nigrescens. In addition, those forms which, though included in 

 the list, are of somewhat doubtful occurrence in the Peninsula, are 

 printed witliin square brackets. 



Order GALLIFOR .V^-S'-G AME-BIRDS. 



1. Rhizothera longirostris 



{Temm.). 



2. Arboricola charltoni {Ei/ton). 

 fS. Arboricolacampbelli, i^ott»so/t 



4. Caloperdix oculea (Temm.). 



5. Kollulus roulroul (Scop.). 



6. Melanoperdix nigi*a (Vig.). 



7. Excalf actoria chinensis 



(Linn.). 



8. Aconius erythrophthalmus 



(Raffles)." 



9. Lophura rufa {Raffles). 



10. Gallus gallus (Linn.). 



11. Polyplectrou malacceusis 



(Scoi).). 



12. Polyplectrou inopiuatus 



(Rothsch.). 

 18. Argusiauus argus (Linn.). 



14. Rheinwardtius nigres- 



cens, Rothsch. 



15. Pavo muticus, Linn. 



16. Turnix taigoor, Sykes. 



Order COL UMBIFOIiMES-VlGEO^H. 



17. Butreron capelli (Temm.). 1 +19. Sphenocercus korthalsi 



+18. Sphenocercus robinsoni. 

 Grant. 



(Temm.). 



3. High mouutains of South Perak and Selaugor. 

 12. Mountains of Selangor and Pahang above 3,000 feet. 

 14. Ula Dong, Gunong Tahan, and possibly the vicinity of Kuala Lipis, Pahang. 



18. Gunong Tahan, Pahang; Semangko Pass and Gunong Mengkuang Lebah, 

 Selangor. 



19. The only specimen certainly knoAvn from the Malay Peninsula is one shot 

 on Pulau Rumpia, one of the Scmbilan Islaiuls, off the nioutliof the Perak Kivcr, 

 in April, 1906. 



' Juiirn. Fid. J/"?. S("lc.< Jil'.-'., i.. p. 15 (IL'OG.) 



