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27. 

 28. 

 29. 

 30. 

 31- 

 32. 

 33. 

 34- 

 35- 

 36. 



Pipistrellus imbricatus ... 

 Pipistrellus ridleyi 

 Pipistrellus tenuis 

 Hesperoptenus tomesi 

 Chilophylla hirsuta 

 Rhinolophus ccelophyllus 

 Hipposideros stoliczkanus 

 Petalia tragata 

 Kerivoula picta 

 Kerivoula bicolor 



... Peninsula. 



... Selangor. 



... Penang. 



... Malacca. 



... Port Swettenham. 



... Kedah. 



... Penang. 



... Peninsula. 



... Penang. 



... Jalor. 



The original specimens of Nos. 2, 4 and 13, which were at 

 the time unique, have been deposited in the National Museum 

 at South Kensington. 



Of the remaining 33, 26 species are of marine or 

 nocturnal habits and are, therefore, difficult to obtain ; Giinomys 

 varius varillus is an introduced form in Penang; Epimys 

 pulius is a small rat from Tioman known from one specimen 

 only, while Tragulus stanleyanus, though said to occur in 

 Batang Padang, has never been obtained of late years. The 

 last species Gymnura gymnura is the southern race of the 

 common tikus hulan found throughout the Peninsula. 



The total number of birds ascribed to the Malay Penin- 

 sula on any evidence, good, bad or indifferent, is now 654. 

 Of these, 26 are either species identical with other forms 

 or which have been recorded from the region erroneously or on 

 the strength of wrongly identified or captive specimens, 

 leaving 628 species about which no doubt exists. 



Of these the Federated Malay States Museums possess 

 specimens of 589, leaving 39 species still to be procured. 

 Of these 39, we have at different times possessed examples of 

 six, which have either been transferred to the British Museum 

 or perished from defective preservation. Of the remaining 

 33 forms, four are oceanic birds, rarely approaching land, six 

 are marsh or shore birds, nine are migratory species only 

 resting in the Peninsula for very short periods on their way 

 north or south, two are owls of extreme rarity, one (Acrido- 

 theres torquaUis) is known from one specimen only which ought 

 to be in the Singapore Museum but cannot now be found, 

 while the remaining eleven are known almost entirely from 

 the extreme north of the Peninsula, though one (Cyornis 

 ruecki) of very doubtful validity is described from Malacca. 



The only additions to be looked for are, therefore, either 

 occasional migrants or actual novelties, which are necessarily 

 few and far between, as, ornithologically speaking, the Malay 

 Peninsula is better known than almost any other area of equal 

 extent in Asia. 



As showing the advance that has been made in the last 

 thirty years, Hume, in 1880, gives the number of birds actually 

 known from the Malay -Peninsula as 459, of which he had 

 procured 415. The corresponding figures are now 628 and 

 589, or increases of 34.6 and 41.9 per cent., respectively. 

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