BIRDS OF THE LARUT HILLS. 9 
Birds collected and observed on the Larut Hills, 
Perak, in March and April 1898. 
It was with the greatest pleasure that I found myself able 
to devote the months of February and March this year oe 
to forming a collection of birds on rx Larut Hills in Perak. 
believe that Mr. L. Wray, Jr., and Dr. Hartert for a few da 
in 1888, are the only other kanan не ея who have collected оп 
these mountains. Mr. Wray was fortunate in being the first 
man on the ground, and he made the most of his opportunities, 
obtaining, apparently, all the then new species which are at all 
common on the hills, and severa! which must "A dist stinctly rare, 
as I failed to procure a single s Tees men of some of them in two 
months energetic collectin The Rede bo results of Mr. 
Wray's very successful collecting expeditions in the mountains 
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Journal of this Society (No. 19, p. 125., and No. 2 
These two papers deal Sie collections с оп ve Larut 
Hills and on the Batang Padang Mountains, For practical ра 
poses they may both be taken ia dealing with the birds of t 
Larut Hills, the avifauna- of the higher mountains, as far as is 
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of the Malay Peninsula occur at 3,000 to 5,000 feet altitude. As 
yet no single species has been discovered with a habitat restrict- 
ed to the higher ajan оша of 6,000 or 7,000 feet, though it 
quite тшше that some such forms may exist. 
-five species are enumerated in these two papers, 
which do 2 include birds not vet бане. My list is 
longer, containing 113 species, as I have пела all birds cim 
and identified as well as those shot. Mr. Wray's lists contain 
number of species which I did not come across, while mine con- 
tains several which are not to be found in r. Wray's. The 
obvious inference to be drawn from this is that there are pro- 
