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THE BIRDS OF THE WESTERN HALF 



should really be assigned to stevensoni, and it would be a real 

 chanty if Mr. Gurney would point out clearly, giving a dis- 

 tinct diagnosis, how young birds of virgatus and stevensoni, sex 

 unknown, are to be separated. 



This therefore reduces our total to 459. 



Out of these 459 accepted species we had previously actually 

 collected specimens of 373 ; we have now preserved specimens 

 of 27 out of the 28 species which we have this time to add to 

 the list, as well as of 15 of the species previously entered on 

 the authority of others in our lists, but of which we had not 

 hitherto succeeded in securing specimens. This makes up the 

 total number of species, of which we have up to date succeeded 

 in obtaining specimens, to 415. 



Out of the 44 species that we have as yet failed to procure, 

 a very few may be doubtful. Thus there may have been some 

 mistake about Gyps indicus, Cyanoderma bicolor, Arundinax 

 adon, Budytes melanocephala, Gallus varius, Leptoptilus argalus, 

 and Tantalus lacteus. But of the great majority there can be 

 no doubt, as we have ourselves seen most of them, although we 

 have not yet preserved specimens. 



Of course, there are two species — Microtarsus olivaceus and 

 lole cinerea — which may be synonyms of two species that we 

 have obtained. But even excluding these and the previous 

 seven there remain 35 certain, which, added to the species we 

 have obtained, gives an ascertained total of 450 species. Out of 

 these 450 certainly ascertained species, all, except 115 species, 

 have been ascertained to occur elsewhere within our limits out- 

 side the Malay Peninsula. It may be useful to subjoin a list 

 of these 115 species, as this will give an idea of the charac- 

 teristic features of the avifauna of the Malay Peninsula as 

 contrasted with that of Tenasserim. 



List of Malayan species not hitherto observed elsewhere 

 within our limits. 



25 A. — Accipiter stevensoni. 



39 quat A. — Spilornis pallidus. 



53 A. — Circus spilonotus. 



67 bis. — Pernis brachypterus. 



63 A.— Syrnium maingayi. 



74 A. — Scops stictonotus. 



74 sext. — Scops malayanus. 



74 nov. A. — 8cops rufescens . 



85 quint A. — Hirundo archetes, 

 105 ter A. — Batrachostomus stellatus. 

 103 ter C. — Batrachostomus auritus. 



114 ter A. — Lyncornis temminckii, 



115 A.— Harpactes diardi. 



115 B — Harpactes kasumba. 



1 15 bis A. — Harpactes rutilus. 



117 A. — Merops sutnatranus 



127 bis A. — Pelargopsis malaccensis. 



133 A. — Ceyx rufidorsus. 



140.4. — Buceros rhiaoceroides. 



141 bis. — Hydrocissa convexa. 



143 bis. — Hydrocissa malayana. 



?143 bis A. — Hydrocissa nigrirostris. 



145 quat A. — Craniorrhinus corrugatus. 



152 ter. — Palseornis longicaudus. 



153 A. — Loriculus galgulus. 



163 bis A.— Yungipicus variegatus. 



