| Reprinted from “ Journal, Federated Malay States Museums,” Vol. V, 
No, 1.] 
NOTES ON BIRDS NEW TO, OR RARE IN, THE MALAY 
PENINSULA. 
(THIRD SERIEs. ) 
By H. C. ROBINSON, c.M.z.s., M.B.0.U. 
38 present notes continue those published in this journal, vol. 
fa IV, pp. 129-153 and pp. 229-233, and relate to species obtained 
in the ordinary course of collecting during the last eighteen months 
in the Federated Malay States and the adjacent portions of the 
Malay Peninsula. 
CALOPERDIX OCULEBA (TEMM.) 
Caloperdix oculea (Temm.) ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
XX, p. 222 (1893); Robinson and Kloss, Ibis, 1910, p. 671. 
This handsome Jungle-Partridge, which is extremely rare in 
collections, was found to be by no means uncommon in swampy 
jungle at the foot of precipitous limestone hills near Pelarit in 
Perlis, a small state in the north of the Peninsula, bordering on 
Kedah. Our collectors secured numerous specimens and also 
observed that it was kept in captivity by the local Malays who fed it 
on termites or white ants. Caged specimens, however, were said not 
to be long-lived. 
A single male was also shot in February, 1912, at the height of 
3,000 feet on Menang Gasing, a mountain in the main range of the 
Peninsula near the junction of the boundaries of the three states, 
Selangor, Negri Sembilan and Pahang. 
As noted elsewhere, the locality “Malacca” for four specimens 
in the British Museum is open to grave suspicion, the skins having 
most probably been obtained by Malacca bird-hunters from some 
district in the north of the Peninsula. 
Males differ from the females in the slightly larger size, most 
noticeable in the bill, and in the presence of a blunt tarsal spur or 
knob, which is sometimes reduplicated. Less adult specimens have 
the V-shaped black markings on the flanks encroaching on the centre 
of the breast. 
ARBORICOLA CHARLTONI (Eyton). 
Arboricola charltoni (Hyton); Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus., xxii., p. 221 (1893). 
A single female specimen was obtained at Pelarit, Perlis, in 
November, 1911. Throughout the Malay Peninsula this partridge is 
a very rare bird though common in the vicinity of Lenggong in Upper 
Perak, but in the first few months of 1912 it suddenly appeared 
in considerable numbers on the lower slopes of the Larut Hills, 
in the vicinity of Taiping, Perak. Large numbers were snared 
by the Malays and several are now in the gardens of the Zoological 
Society, London. 
