XXI. ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM PULAU 



LANGKAWI AND OTHER ISLANDS ON THE 



NORTH-WEST COAST OF THE MALAY 



PENINSULA. 



By Herbert C. Robinson, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



The present paper is based mainly on a collection made 

 by Mr. Seimund and myself and .1 staff of native collectors on 

 the principal islands off the north-west coast of the Malay 

 Peninsula between the parallels oi (> N. and 7 30' N. during 

 the months of December and January, 1916-17. 



The islands had for the most part been visited by us 

 previously for two or three days at a time and I have in many 



cases included species obtained on these occasions where the 

 specimens have raised points of any interest. Many species 

 on the other hand, notably hawks and herons, which have 

 been sufficiently dealt with elsewhere are not here mentioned. 



The collections are probably fairly exhaustive for the 

 islands of Langkawi and Terutau but are of course very 

 incomplete, for the other islands, which were only visited for 

 two or three days at a time, merely sufficiently long to obtain 

 representative series of the small mammals which were the 

 main objects of our visits. 



It will be seen that the avifauna presents the same 

 general characters as those of all the other groups of islands 

 in the vicinity of the Malay Peninsula, namely, a great scarcity 

 of all the more strictly jungle frequenting species belonging 

 to the great family of Timcliidae, and the total absence of 

 Eurylaemidae, though we find a few species of Trogons, Barbets 

 and Woodpeckers orders which are entirely absent from the 

 islands off the coast of Pahang on the east side of the 

 Peninsula, these islands being smaller in extent and separated 

 from the mainland by broader stretches of deeper water. 

 Owing to the fact that our visit took place in the winter 

 months, migrator}- flycatchers, thrushes and warblers are well 

 represented, while a considerable number of shore birds were 

 also obtained or observed. 



A brief account of the localities visited on the present 

 cruise is appended, while the synonymy has been restricted to 

 narrow limits, only two. papers which have some bearing 

 on the localities being usually quoted vi/ : 



"On birds from the Northern Portion of the Malay 

 Peninsula including the Islands of Langkawi and Terutau ; 

 with notes on other rare Malayan Species from the Southern 

 Districts." By Herbert C. Robinson and Cecil Boden Kloss. 



