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27. Pipistrellus imbricatus ... ... Peninsula. 
28. Pipistrellus ridleyi Me ... Selangor. 
2g. Pipistrellus tenuis ee ... Penang. 
30. Hesperoptenustomesi ... ... Malacca. 
31. Chilophylla hirsuta ... Port Swettenham. 
32. Rhinolophus ceelophyllus ... Kedah. 
33. Hipposideros stoliczkanus ae enane. 
34. Petalia tragata ee ... Peninsula. 
35. Kerivoula picta eae =e enane. 
36. Kerivoula bicolor 5 ... Jalor. 
The original specimens of Noe! 2, 4 and 13, which were at 
the time unique, have been deposited in the National Museum 
at South Kensington. 
Of the remaining 33, 26 species are of marine or 
nocturnal habits and are, therefore, difficult to obtain; Gumnonvys 
varius varillus is an introduced form in Penang; Epimys 
pullus is a small rat from Tioman known from one specimen 
only, while Tvagulus stanleyanus, though said to occur in 
Batang Padang, has never been obtained of late years. The 
last species Gymnura gymnura is the southern race of the 
common ftikus bulan found throughout the Peninsula. 
The total number of birds ascribed to the Malay Penin- 
sula on any evidence, good, bad or indifferent, is now 654. 
Of these, 26 are either species identical with other forms 
or which have been recorded from the region erroneously or on 
the strength of wrongly identified or captive specimens, 
leaving 628 species about which no doubt exists. 
Of these the Federated Malay States Museums possess 
specimens of 589, leaving 39 species still to be procured. 
Of these 39, we have at different times possessed examples of 
six, which have either been transferred to the British Museum 
or perished from defective preservation. Of the remaining 
33 forms, four are oceanic birds, rarely approaching land, six 
are marsh or shore birds, nine are migratory species only 
resting in the Peninsula for very short periods on their way 
north or south, two are owls of extreme rarity, one (Acrido- 
theres torquatus) is known from one specimen only which ought 
to be in the Singapore Museum but cannot now be found, 
while the remaining eleven are known almost entirely from 
the extreme north of the Peninsula, though one (Cyornis 
yuecki) of very doubtful validity is described from Malacca. 
The only additions to be looked for are, therefore, either 
occasional migrants or actual novelties, which are necessarily 
few and far between, as, ornithologically speaking, the Malay 
Peninsula is better known than almost any other area of equal 
extent in Asia. 
As showing the advance that has been made in the last 
thirty years, Hume, in 1880, gives the number of birds actually 
known from the Malay Peninsula as 459, of which he had 
procured 415. The corresponding figures are now 628 and 
589, or increases of 34.6 and 41.9 per cent., respectively. 
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