268 MR. R. B. SHARPS ON [May 15, 



1. List of a Collection of Birds made by Mr. L. Wray in 

 tlie Main Range of Mountains of the Malay Peiiinsulaj 

 Perak, By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S.j &c.. 

 Zoological Department^ British Museum. 



[Eeceived April 24, 1888.] 



(Plate XV.) 



From the collections previously sent by Mr. Wray {cf. P. Z. S. 

 1886, p. 350, and 1887, p. 431) it was so easy to prophesy that his 

 future ex})lorations would bring to light the existence of more 

 Himalayan genera in the high mountains of the Malayan Peninsula, 

 that I can take little credit for my prognostications ; but the fore- 

 shadowing of Mr. Wray's accomplishments does not impair the 

 credit of that explorer's success in his last expedition into the 

 mountain-ranges of the interior of the Peninsula. 



He states that the mountains on which he has lived for six months 

 " contain really very few more birds than the Larut range, though 

 they are so much more extensive," and he collected up to an altitude 

 of 7000 feet. 



By the present collection several interesting forms have been 

 revealed, representatives of allied species in Tenasserim, and the 

 ranges of several birds are extended southwards. The genera hitherto 

 unrecorded from the mountains of Malacca are Anthipes, Brachyp- 

 teryx, Gampsorhynchus, and Cutia — all Himalayan and Tenasserim 

 forms, of which, so far as we know, only Brachyptei'yx has occurred 

 in Sumatra. The Avifauna of the latter island is further linked to 

 that of the mountain-ranges of the Malay Peninsula by the discovery 

 of a Black Babbling Thrush, representing the Melanociclila bicolor 

 of Sumatra. 



The unexampled success which has attended Mr. Wray's efforts 

 so far will, we hope, encourage him to still further investigations of 

 the interesting region in which he is domiciled. 



The references in the present paper are chiefly to Mr. Oates' 

 ' Handbook of the Birds of British Burmah,' which includes an 

 allusion to the paper on the Birds of Tenasserim by Messrs. Hume 

 and Davison. I have also referred to Count Salvadori's essay on 

 Dr. Beccari's collections from high Sumatra (Ann. Mus. Civic. 

 Genov. xiv. p. 169), whenever there occurs any affinity in the Avi- 

 fauna of that island with the collection under discussion. 



Mr. Wray's original remarks, by far the most important part of 

 the present paper, are placed in inverted commas. 



Fam. Falconid^. 

 Neopus malayensis (Temm.). 



Neopus malayensis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 433 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 1879, p. 44. 



"No. 18. $ ad. Mountains of Perak (Gunong Batu Putch). 



