xX, ON A COLLECTION OF BLEEDS FROM PULAU 
LANGKAWI AND OTHER ISLANDS ON THE 
NOREN-WEST COAST Ob EEE MAEAY 
PENINSULA. 
By HERBERT C. Ropinson, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
The present paper is based mainly on a collection made 
by Mr. Seimund and myself and a staff of native collectors on 
the principal islands off the north-west coast of the Malay 
Peninsula between the parallels of 6° N. and 7° 30’ N. during 
the months of December and January, 1916-17. 
The islands had for the most part been visited by us 
previously for two or three days at a time and I have in many 
cases included species obtained on these occasions where the 
specimens have raised points of any interest. .Many species 
on the other hand, notably hawks and herons, which have 
been sufficiently dealt with elsewhere are not here mentioned. 
The collections are probably fairly exhaustive for the 
islands of Langkawi and Terutau but are of course very 
incomplete, for the other islands, which were only visited for 
two or three days at a time, merely sufficiently long to obtain 
representative series of the small mammals which were the 
main objects of our visits. 
It will be seen that the avifauna presents the same 
eeneral characters as those of all the other groups of islands 
in the vicinity of the Malay Peninsula, namely, a great scarcity 
of all the more strictly jungle frequenting species belonging 
to the great family of Timeliidae, and the total absence of 
Eurylaemidae, though we find a few species of Trogons, Barbets 
and Woodpeckers orders which are entirely absent from the 
islands off the coast of Pahang on the east side of the 
Peninsula, these islands being smaller in extent and separated 
from the mainland by broader stretches of deeper water. 
Owing to the fact that our visit took place in the winter 
months, migratory flycatchers, thrushes and warblers are well 
represented, while a considerable number of shore birds were 
also obtained or observed. 
A brief account of the localities visited on the present 
cruise is appended, while the synonymy has been restricted to 
narrow limits, only two papers which have some _ bearing 
on the localities being usually quoted viz :— 
“On birds from the Northern Portion of the Malay 
Peninsula including the Islands of Langkawi and Terutau; 
with notes on other rare Malayan Species from the Southern 
Districts.” By Herbert C. Robinson and Cecil Boden Kloss. 
