1922] Robinson & Kloss: Birds of Malacca Straits. 259 



39. Aplonis panayensis strigatus (Horsf.). 1? 

 Accidental on Pulau Rumpia. 



40. Motacilla boarula melanope, Pall. 1 9 



A few are generally to be met with on Pulau Rumpia 

 in the winter months. From Pulau Lalang, distant two 

 or three miles from P. Rumpia, we have a specimen of 

 M. ftava simillima, Hartert, shot on 15th October, 1911. 

 This species is very rare in the Malay Peninsula. 



41. Cyrtostomus ornatus ornatus (Less.). 2$ 



Fairly common throughout the year. This is the 

 bird hitherto known as Arechnecthra pectoralis (Horsf.). 



XVIll. LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED ON PULAU 

 JARAK, STRAITS OF MALACCA, 



In November, 1919, i 



by 



H. C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss. 



For comparison with the birds collected on Pulau 

 Rumpia a collection was also made on Pulau Jarak, 

 Straits of Malacca, in November, 1919. Pulau Jarak is 

 a small island, about three hundred acres in extent, rising 

 steeply from the sea to a height of 600 feet. It is densely 

 covered with vegetation and has no beaches and is 

 entirely uninhabited. 



Large numbers of a peculiar rat (Rattus rattus jarak, 

 Bonhote) are found on it and a slightly differentiated 

 form of a widely spread fruit bat {Pteropus hypomelanus 

 fretensis, Kloss). As might be expected the birds 

 obtained are not materially different from those on 

 Pulau Rumpia from which island Pulau Jarak is distant 

 about 34 miles almost due west, the maximum depth of 

 the intervening sea being about 30 fathoms. 



List. 



1. Myristicivora bicolor (Scop.). 2$ 



2. Caloenas nicobarica (Linn.) . 1^,1$ 



3. Amaurornis phaenicura chinensis (Bodd.). 1^,39 



4. Butorides javanica javanica (Horsf.) . 2^,1? 



5. Dupetor flavicollis (Lath.). 1^, 2 9 



6. Demiegretta sacra (Gm.). l9 



7. Gorsachius melanolophus (Raffles). 2s, 2 9 



