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however so small that the moiintaiu fauna is correspondingly limited 

 and it is therefore not safe to draw any deductions from the absence 

 or presence of particular species. 



Many forms strictly confined to the zone above 3,000 feet 

 in the south of the Malay Peninsula here occur at elevation of 

 1,000 feet or under while certain si^ecies such as Cyanojys oorti 

 and Oriolns consanguine us of insular facies, common everywhere in the 

 hills of Selaugor and Perak, are not met with on Kao Nawng and 

 presumably do not occur. 



The following species not hitherto recorded from the Malay 

 Peninsula were collected : 



Pseudotantalus leticocepJialiis (Penu.) ; 

 Cyanops davisoni (Hume) ; 

 AntJiipes submoniliger, Hume ; 

 Anthipes olivacea (Hume) ; 

 Gryptolopha youngi, sp. nov. ; 

 Thringorhina guttata (Tick.) ; 

 Pnoepyga piisilla, Hodgs. ; 

 Mthop]jga sanguinipectus, Wald. 



Without the active co-operation of the local authorities jimgle 

 travel in the Siamese portions of the Malay Peninsula is practically 

 impossible to a stranger. Our most hearty thanks are therefore due, 

 in the first place to H.E.H. Prince Damrong, Minister of the Interior, 

 Siam, who provided us with the necessary introductions, and in the 

 second to the Acting Grovernor of Bandon and to the amphurr * of 

 Lampum, who treated us most courteously and took an infinity of 

 trouble in securing the large amount of transport that we required. 

 Without their aid we should have been tied to the line of the railway 

 and would have obtained no results of any particular interest. 



PHASIANID^. 

 1. ARBORICOLA CHARLTON I. 



Arboricola charltoni (^Eyton) ; Ogilvie G-rant, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xxii., p. 221 (1893) ; Robinson, Jouru. Fed. Malay States Mus., 

 v„ p. 15 (1913). 



These jungle partridges are apparently fairly common in the north 

 of the Peninsula, though they are extremely rare south of the latitude 

 of Taiping in central Perak. Near Ban Kok Klap they were very 

 numerous in dry jungle but very wary and almost impossible to 

 approach. Mr. Seimund, who obtained one specimen, describes the 

 note as a soft low double whistle. The small native boys occasionally 

 shoot them with pellet bows. They make excellent eating. 



* An official corresponding to the District Officer in the Federated Malay 

 States. 



