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*686. — Acridotheres fuscus, Wagl. 



[Penang and Jurrum.] 



A rare bird in the Malay Peninsula, but the specimens 

 obtained are true fuscus, as I have already remarked, with the 

 yellow irides, and not with the blue ones which characterize 

 the Southern Indian mahrattensis, Sykes. 



*703 ter. — Erytkrura prasina, Sparrm. 

 [Selangore.] 



This lovely little Finch, common as it is in the southern parts 

 of Tenasserim, appears to be extremely rare in the Peninsula. 

 It is not known to the Malaccan dealers, and the only specimens 

 we have ever met with were a few at Selangore. Even here 

 the Malays, who notice bright colored birds very readily, 

 professed never to have seen the bird till our people shot some, 

 and yet the conditions of life in the southernmost portions of 

 Tenasserim appear to be entirely identical with those of 

 Malacca, and other parts of the western-half of the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



*831 quat. — Caloperdix oculeus, Tern. 



[Eopah.] 



•902 A.— Porphyrio edwardsi, Elliot. S. F., VII., 23, PI. 1. 



[Near Klang.] 



Purple Coots are not common in the Malay Peninsula. The 

 explored portions of the tract contain few localities suited to 

 their habits, but in a large swamp, about 15 miles east of Klang, 

 Davison met with a good number of these birds, and Mr. Sj r ers, 

 who accompanied him, succeeded in bagging one, which proved 

 to be, not calvus, as Blyth and Eyton had recorded, but Elliott's 

 new Siamese species edwardsi. The plate already given of 

 this species in Stray Feathers (loc. cit. sup.) is an extremely 

 faithful one. 



* 9 Qi.— Gallicrex cinereus, Gm. 



[Klang and Selangore.] 



By no means a common bird in the Peninsula. 

 *990. — Sterna media, Horsf. 



[Jurrum and Selangore.] 



*992. — Sterna anaetheta, Scop. 



[Between Penang and Malacca.] 



•1004. — Pelecanus philippensis, Gm. 



[Malacca.] 



We obtained from a dealer a single old skin of a young 

 bird of this species, killed some years ago, in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Malacca. 



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