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IS. /'/;/M7X TWKEDAI.II III MKS llOM;V Ul/./A l{l». 



PiTuis tweedalii, Hinne, Stray Feather.^, ix., pp. 44'G-448 ; id., ojj. n't., 

 X.. p. 513 (1887). 



$ ad. Semangko Pass, 2,700 ft. 17th February, 1904. 



$ ad. Batn, nr. Kviala Luaipnr. Gth January, 1900. 



(? imm. Maxwell's Hill, Taiping, Perak, 3,600 ft. Sth September, 1908. 



This bird is very common in the more jungly parts of the country, 

 but can only occasionally be got. It appears to l)e resident, whereas 

 the other Malayan species of the genus P. cristatus auct is certainly 

 migratory. 



The two adult specimens agree well with Hume's plate (loc. cit. sup.), 

 except that there is decidedly more l)lack on the plumage <>f the lower 

 surface. The immature male has the under surface barred with rufous 

 buff and white ; breast and upi^or part of the belly with dark brown 

 sliaft stripes, more marked on the breast ; black throat and mousta- 

 chial stripes pronounced ; feathers of the sides of the neck broadly 



edged with rufous ; crest ])lack faintly ti})ped with white, lores grey. 



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!;•. ICTINAETUS 3[ALA I'EXSIS -THFj BLACK EAGLE. 



Ictiuaetus malayensis (Kheinw.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 i., p. 257 (1874) ; Sharpe (2), p. 433 ; id. (3), p. 268. 



Very fairly common in the high hills, especially in Larut, but 

 practically impossible to secure except wliere there are large clearings. 

 I have seen it on almost every hill. I have spent raoie than a day or 

 Iwo upon. Not often met with in the low country. 



:>0. SP1ZAET1K ALBOyidEIi BLYTHK TIAWK KAOLK. 



Spizaetusallnmiger (Blyth) : Sharpe, Cat., p. 271 : Butler, p. 29 : 

 Grant (1), p. 114. 



Very common on the Government Plantation on the Larut Hills, 

 Perak, where it is very destructive to chickens, and also met with 

 though moi-e sparsely in the low country ; much rarer in Solangor 

 and Pahang. 



Spizaetuslimnaetus (Horsf.), mentioned by Sharpe (2), p. 433, but 

 of wliich he did not examine specimens, is far more probably this 

 species. 



21. IIETEROSCOPFi VULPES-THE MOI'NTAIX SCOPS OWL. 



Pisorhina luciae, Hartert, p. 541. 



Heteroscops vulpes. Grant, Bull. B.O.C., xix.. No. cxxvii., p. 11 

 (1906); id. (2), p. 51. 



2 . Gnuong Meiigkuang Lebali, 4,SU() ft. 13rli Man-li, 1907. 



(? imni. Soniangko Pas.^, 2,700-4,000 ft. 7ili March, 1908. 



The immature bird is in a dai*k brown, not rufous, phase of plumage 

 and is devoid of the whitish outer webs to the inner scapulars. 



Probably by no means rare on the higher mountains, where the 

 hoot of a small owl is often heard, but not oft^n obtained. 



