1880.] MR. RAMSAY ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF SUMATRA. 13 



Mus exulans and Mus vitiensis of Peale' : — the former about six 

 inches long, with hair like a Norway Rat ; the latter a house-mouse, 

 about three inches long. 



I propose to name this species Mit,s huegeli, after its discoverer, 

 who informs me that it does not frequent the houses of the natives, 

 but is found in long grass among rocks and sand in the mountains. 

 It is very probably the Rat which Mr. H. N. Moseley in his ' Notes 

 by a Naturalist ou the ' Challenger,' ' mentions (p. 308) as having 

 been chased unsuccessfully among the undergrowth on the mountains, 

 when his party were at Levuka, Ovalau, in 1874. 



4. Contributions to the Ornithology of Sumatra. — Report 

 on a Collection from the neighbourhood of Paclang. By 

 E. G. Wardlaw Ramsay, F.Z.S., 67th Regiment. 



[Eeceived December 30, 1879.] 



(Plate I.) 



On the 9th August, 1878, Mr. Carl Bock, a Swedish naturalist, 

 arrived at Padang, on the west coast of Sumatra, with the intention 

 of penetrating into the mountains of the interior to investigate their 

 fauna for the late Marquis of Tweeddale, who had secured his services 

 for that purpose. Mr. Bock {in episf.) says that he was consider- 

 ably delayed by having to go to Batavia, in order to obtain passports 

 from the Governor-General of the Netherlands, India, and a permit 

 to import his guns and ammunition into -Sumatra. 



Losing as little time as possible, Mr. Bock started towards the 

 mountains, and spent three days at Ayer-mantcior with Dr. Beccari ^ 

 who had been collecting for several months in the neighbourhood ; he 

 then proceeded vid Tamar-datar and Boca to Mount Sago, which is 

 about seventy miles to the north-east of Padang. The summit of 

 Mount Sago is described as being about 8000 feet above the sea- 

 level, and clad with virgin forest ; but the highest point reached by 

 Mr. Bock was 5000 feet. He collected in three weeks about one 

 hundred specimens, although the weather was wet and unfavourable. 

 The bad weather having rendered a longer stay on this mountain 

 unadvisable, he moved southward to Sidjoendjoeng, where, after 

 collecting for some time, he proceeded by a tedious route to Paio in 

 heavy rain. In this locality Mr. Bock collected for about a month, 

 and then, towards the close of the year, again moved southwards 

 a distance of about 100 miles to Mocara-labo and Ayer-angat, near 

 the frontier of Korintzi territory. 



At Ayer-angat he was much disappointed at the scarcity of birds, 



» U.S. Explor. Esped. viii. pp. 47-49, 1848. 



* The results of Dr. Beccari's labours have been laid befoi'e the public in a 

 paper by Count T. Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 1879, pp. 169-253. 



