JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY. 



Part II— PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 



No. IV.— 1870. 



A Contribution to Malayan Ornithology, — by Dr. F. Stoliczka, 

 Palaeontologist, Geological Survey of India ; Honorary Secretary, 

 Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



[Received and read, 6th July, 1870.] 

 A short visit to the Malay Peninsula, during the latter part 

 of 1869, gave me an opportunity of observing a portion of the 

 fauna of that country. While staying at Penang, and on a short 

 trip into the Wellesley Province, I noticed among others a large 

 number of birds, which seemed to me to possess great affinities to 

 Indian forms, but at the same time to exhibit some peculiarities. 

 Knowing that this part of the Malayan country was as yet very 

 little explored, but not being able to prolong my stay in that 

 locality for even a few days, I engaged a collector for about a 

 month, and sent him into the interior of the Province, instructing 

 him to direct his attention especially, — as far as birds were concerned, 

 — to the smaller kinds. After my return from Malacca and Singa- 

 pore, I found that the trial was not quite without success, and I 

 met my collector with more than 300 specimens of bird skins. 

 These proved to belong to nearly one hundred species, and the 

 following notes are offered on such as appear to possess a more 

 general interest. Others are only referred to by name, as being 

 nteresting in a point of geographical distribution, for with the 



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