434 MR. R. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS FROM PERAK. [May 3, 



Glaucidium BRODiEi (Burt.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 212 (1875). 



" No. 57. 6 ' Iiides yellow. Only one specimen of this Pygmy 

 Owlet was seen." 



Syrnium newarense (Hodgs.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 281 

 (1875). 



" No. 65. 5 . Irides yellow. I found this Owl seated on a 

 branch of a small tree in a very dark ravine, and I was some time 

 before I could decide whether it was a bird or some dead leaves." 



This specimen is rather small, but there can scarcely be any 

 question about its being identical with S. newarense and not with 

 S. maingayi, which is the yellow-faced form found in the Malay 

 Peninsula (c/. Hume, Str. F. vi. p. 27). As a rule S. maingayi 

 and S. indranee have perfectly uniform faces of a deep ochreous 

 colour, but one specimen ( $ ) from Coonoor has the face dusky 

 and barred with blackish, exactly as in S. newarense, and therefore 

 it shows either that S. newarense occurs in the Nilghiris, or else that 

 the latter range contains an intermediate form between S. newarense 

 and *S'. indrmiee. 



The specimen sent by Mr. Wray has the wing 4 inches. It is 

 evidently a very old bird, being very dark above and very coarsely 

 barred below, with a dark band across the chest, where the cross- 

 bars are not so distinct. The face is deep rufous-ochre, with a few 

 indistinct blackish cross-bars. Altogether the specimen may be said 

 to belong to the eastern race oi Syrnium newarense, with a tolerably 

 uniform ochreous face. Such specimens are found in Formosa, 

 Assam, Manipur, and Sikkim, where a perfect gradation takes place 

 between them and typical S. newarense, leaving it absolutely impos- 

 sible to draw any line between eastern and western examples. 



Oriolus consanguineus, Wardlaw Ramsay. 



" No. 59. 6 . Irides crimson ; bill pale blue-grey. The female 

 is black, without the red breast- and wing-spots. It is not a common 

 bird. The range seems to be from 3000 to 4000 feet, but I have a 

 specimen shot in Kinta at not more than 100 or 200 feet above the 

 sea-level, at the foot of the central range of the peninsula." 



The specimen sent is identical with one of the typical specimens 

 collected by Mr. Carl Bock, and now in the British Museum. 



Bhringa remifer (Temm.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iii. p. 257 (1877). 



"No. 46. J $• Irides red-brown. The long tail-feathers of 

 most of the males have no webs on their shafts, excepting on the 

 racket-ends, the portion covered by the ordinary tail being quite 

 naked. I obtained two males with webs on the shafts, under the 

 shorter tail-feathers, and was at first uncertain whether there might 

 not be two species ; but as no difference was observable in the tails of 

 the females (the upper portion of the long tail-feathers being webbed 

 in every specimen), it seems more probable that the birds with the 

 webbed upper parts of the long feathers are young males." 



This is interesting, as continuing the range of the species south- 

 wards from Tenasserim, but it is also known from Java. 



