Northern Portion of the Malay Peninsula. 29 



still smaller size, Aving about 11 '5^ tail about 7*8 inches, and by 

 having the sides o£ the head not grey but rich rufous and 

 the under surface also more chestnut. There is an adult 

 male and two somewhat younger males from N.E. Borneo 

 [Colls. Hose and Everett^ in the British Museum, 



-f- 57. Cerchneis tinnunculus, 



Cerchneis tinnunculus (Linn.) ; Sharpe, torn, cit. p. 425. 



Tinnunculi(S saturatus Blyth, Jouru. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 xxviii. p. 277 (1859). 



We obtained a single immature female of the Kestrel at 

 Langkavvi in November 1907, and Dr. Abbott {fide Rich- 

 mond, in litt.) procured an adult female in Trang on 

 January 17th, 1897. Our own specimen is in extremely 

 worn plumage and somewhat bleached, and it is therefore 

 difficult to say whether it is merely a migrant from more 

 northern localities or a specimen of the resident tropical race 

 described by Blyth as above. The former appears to us to 

 be the more probable supposition. 



i-58. Pernis tweeddalii. 



Pernis tweeddalei Hume, Stray Feathers, ix. pp. 446-8 

 (1881) ; id. op. cit. x. p. 513 1887) ; Robinson, p. 171. 



4- 59. Pernis cristatus. 



Pernis cristatus Cuv. Regne Anim. i. p. 335 (1829), 

 Pernis ptilonorhynchus (Temm.) ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 347. 

 Both these species, if they are distinct, occur throughout 

 the Peninsula, but specimens in the plumage figured by 

 Hume as P. tweeddalii are very rare and we have only come 

 across two or three of them. Immature birds without crests 

 are fairly common in the winter months. 



PaNDIONID/E. 



— f- 60. Pandion iialiaetus. 



Fandion haliaetus (Linn.) ; Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 449. 

 On the coast and in suitable localities as far as thirty miles 

 inland the Osprey is fairly common throughout the Peuinsula. 



