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Vol. VIII. OCTOBER 1879J Nos. 2-5. 



Second Notice. 



In my first tentative list of the birds of the western half 

 of the Malay Peninsula I enumerated 408 species ; we have 

 now to add 47 other species, which undoubtedly occur in the 

 Malay Peninsula, making a total of 455 species. 



Out of the birds formerly enumerated, I considered the 

 occurrence of 20, or their validity as species, doubtful. One of 

 these, Euptilosus euptilosus, I now unhesitating-ly identify with 

 Criniger iristis already entered. Thus reducing the total to 

 454, and the number of doubtful birds to 19. 



Of these latter we have procured one, Dissura episeopa, 

 and one Accipiter stevensoni ought not to have been entered as 

 doubtful, so that our list stands now at 487 species, the occur- 

 rence of which we, pro tern, accept, plus 17 of which we are 

 doubtful. 



We had formerly ourselves collected specimens of 301 species 

 (erroneously printed 302, ante p. 42). We have now collected 

 specimens of 27 more of the species entered in our first list, 

 and 44 out of the 47 species that we are now adding to the list, 

 making a total of 373 species, of which we have actually pro- 

 cured specimens against a total of 487 that we admit. 



Out of the 437 gpecies there are only 119 that do not, so far 

 as we know, occur within the Indian Empire elsewhere than in 

 the Malay Peninsula, and even out of these there are a few, 

 like Sphenoeereus oxyurus and S. korthalsi, of which, though I 

 have not entered them as doubtful, J yet think the occurrence 

 in the Malay Peninsula needs verification. Specimens may, 

 doubtless, have been sent from Malacca, but as we now well 

 know, in former times especially, many birds were brought from 

 Sumatra and other Islands to Malacca and Singapore, and sent 

 thence intermingled with local collections without any tickets 

 or anj'thing in fact to indicate that they had not been locally 

 procured. I may here mention that, though we have two 



