KHNOPIA STRIATA (HlvtiiV 



Kenopia striata, Sliarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mvs., vii,, p. 673 (1883) ; 

 Hartert, Nov. Zool, ix., p. 567 (1902). 



The White-flecked Babbler is not often met with in the Peninsula. 

 Abbott obtained it in Trang, Siamese Malaya, in 1899 (where the F.M.f^. 

 Museums also got a specimen in 1910), Watorstradt on Gunong 

 Tahan two years later, Kloss shot one individual near Gunong 

 Pulai, S. Johor, in 1904, and in July, 1909, Eobinson and Kloss 

 trapped another example at Temengoh, Upper Peralc. No others 

 seem to have l)een recorded for many years, 



rETROPHILA CYANEA (Linn.). 



Petrophila cyanea, Blmiford, Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, vol. ii., p. 146 

 (1898) ; Petrophila cyaneus, Bohinson. Jonrn. F.M.S. Mvs., vol. ii., 

 No. 4, 1909, p. 207. 



A male was ol)tained at the Batu Caves near Kuala Lumpur by 

 Kloss in August, 1908, and on 24th May, 1910, a second specimen, 

 a female, was shot at the same place by Mr. C. B. Holman-Hunt. 



XOTODELA LEUCURA (Hones.). 

 Notodela leucura, Sharj^e, Cat. Birds Brit. Miis.. vii., p. 23 (1883) ; 

 BohlnsoH, Hand-list of the Birds of the Mcday Penivsnla, p. 17, note 

 (1910) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, i., p. 113 (1889). 



Until recently the White-tailed Blue Eol)in was known from the 

 Peninsula by a single specimen collected by Butler on the Larut Hills, 

 Perak. In August, 1909, specimens were for the second time obtained 

 in the Peninsula from the same locality by Robinson and Kloss. 



LANIUS BEXTET (IIorsf.). 

 Lanius l>entet, Gadoir, Cat. Birds Brit. 3Ius.. viii., p. 263 (1883) ; 

 Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, i., p. 465 (1889) ; Robinson, Hand-Jisl 

 of Birds rf the Malay Peninsida, p. 17, note (1910). 



This handsome Long-tailed Shrike is an exceedingly rare bird in the 

 Malay Peninsula and until Seimund shot four specimens near Kuala 

 Lumpur in December, 1909, was unrepresented in the F.M.S. Museums. 



MUNI A LEUCOGASTRA (Blytii). 



Uroloncha leucogastra, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mvs., xiii., p. 362 

 (1890); Gates, Favn. Brit. Ind. Birds., ii., p. 186 (1890); Hartert, 

 Nov. Zoot., ix., p. 578 (1902) ; Grant Jonrn. F.M.S. Mns., iii., p. 17 



(1908). 



The White-})ellied Munia was lacking from the F.M.S. Museums 

 collections until a specimen was obtained at Temengoh, Upper Perak, 

 in August, 1909. Since then it has been taken in Negri Sembilan but 

 it appears to be uncommon in the Western States ; though it has 

 turned up in large niimbers from the lowlands of Pahang. 



